People who lie about having a near-death experience (NDE) use hedges, negative statements, and negative emotion expressions more often than people who actually report an NDE. In a comparison of 50 fabricated NDE stories with 50 genuine NDE interviews, liars produced 63.9% of all hedges (vs. 26.1% for NDErs), 53.1% of negative statements (vs. 46.9%), and 54.9% of negative emotion expressions (vs. 45.1%). The findings suggest that verbal cues linked to deception—hedges, negativity, and negative emotions—are more frequent in liars' accounts, consistent with prior research on deceptive language.
Complications in Farsi near-death experience (NDE) discourse fall into three categories: exemplifying (secondary topics clarifying the main topic), potentializing (secondary topics that could become main topics), and emphasis/scrutinizing (including synonyms, repetitions, antonyms, and overlapping words). Comparing 50 liars and 50 NDE experiencers from the TV program 'Life after Life', liars produced fewer complications overall, while experiencers produced more. Except for potentializing and synonyms, statistical differences emerged between the groups. This suggests complications may serve as a verbal cue distinguishing truthful NDE accounts from fabricated ones.