ABSTRACT

Sometimes it is important to determine another’s familiarity with privileged information despite their intention to conceal this knowledge. Following previous work showing that recognition memory can be used to index knowledge activation (Farwell & Donchin, 1991; Lykken, 1981), Seymour, Seifert, Mosmann, & Shafto (2000) proposed a new “Guilty Knowledge” Test (GKT) based on the response-time (RT) and accuracy to critical information.