For example, secret service agents are required to protect government officials by remaining on the lookout for potential threats, and police detectives are required to interrogate potential suspects. Consequently, both secret service agents and police detectives need to be able to read the nonverbal cues of others to determine whether someone is a threat or a suspect. Therefore, since it has been well-established that deception can be detected based on nonverbal cues, the frontline officers may have possessed an advantage in detecting deception because their job requires reading the nonverbal cues of others. Consequently, this would explain why the second planned contrast revealed a significant difference between front-line officers and the other groups, because the other groups may not rely on reading nonverbal cues for their job. Subsequently, the secret service agents may have made significantly more correct identifications than all of the other groups because they read the nonverbal cues of others the most, which translated to a greater ability to detect
For example, secret service agents are required to protect government officials by remaining on the lookout for potential threats, and police detectives are required to interrogate potential suspects. Consequently, both secret service agents and police detectives need to be able to read the nonverbal cues of others to determine whether someone is a threat or a suspect. Therefore, since it has been well-established that deception can be detected based on nonverbal cues, the frontline officers may have possessed an advantage in detecting deception because their job requires reading the nonverbal cues of others. Consequently, this would explain why the second planned contrast revealed a significant difference between front-line officers and the other groups, because the other groups may not rely on reading nonverbal cues for their job. Subsequently, the secret service agents may have made significantly more correct identifications than all of the other groups because they read the nonverbal cues of others the most, which translated to a greater ability to detect