Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Vienna Cognitive Science Hub, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Memory. 2023 Jul;31(6):767-783. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2023.2195179. Epub 2023 Apr 1.
The Response Time Concealed Information Test (RT-CIT) can reveal that a person recognises a relevant item (e.g., a murder weapon) among other control items, based on slower responses to the former compared to the latter ones. To date, the RT-CIT has been predominantly examined only in the context of scenarios that are very unlikely in real life, while sporadic assessment has shown that it suffers from low diagnostic accuracy in more realistic scenarios. In our study, we validated the RT-CIT in the new, realistic, and very topical mock scenario of a cybercrime (Study 1, = 614; Study 2; = 553), finding significant though moderate effects. At the same time (and expanded with a concealed identity scenario; Study 3, = 250), we assessed the validity and generalizability of the filler items presented in the RT-CIT: We found similar diagnostic accuracies when using specific, generic, and even nonverbal items. However, the relatively low diagnostic accuracy in case of the cybercrime scenario reemphasizes the importance of assessments in realistic scenarios as well as the need for further improving the RT-CIT.
反应时间隐藏信息测试（RT-CIT）可以揭示一个人是否能够在其他控制项目中识别出相关项目（例如，杀人凶器），这是基于与后者相比，前者的反应速度较慢。迄今为止，RT-CIT 主要在现实生活中极不可能发生的场景中进行了检验，而零星的评估表明，它在更现实的场景中的诊断准确性较低。在我们的研究中，我们在一个新的、现实的、非常热门的网络犯罪模拟场景中验证了 RT-CIT（研究 1，n=614；研究 2，n=553），发现了显著但中等的效果。与此同时（并扩展到隐藏身份场景；研究 3，n=250），我们评估了 RT-CIT 中呈现的填充项目的有效性和通用性：我们发现，使用特定的、通用的甚至非语言项目时，诊断准确率相似。然而，在网络犯罪场景中，诊断准确性相对较低，这再次强调了在现实场景中进行评估的重要性，以及进一步改进 RT-CIT 的必要性。
