Great Article on Lying
The Guardian posted an article on lying over the weekend which contains a great quote about detecting deception:
"The results are clear. Liars are just as likely as truth-tellers to look you in the eye, they don't move their hands around nervously and they don't shift about in their seats (if anything, they are a little more static than truth-tellers). People fail to detect lies because they are basing their opinions on behaviours that are not actually associated with deception."The entire article can be found here and it highlights many of the problems people encounter when trying to detect deception.
2 comments:
This is a great article, definitely a lot of help, thanks for sharing. Was looking for all the wrong signs this whole time!
Thank you for writing about it. It makes me so mad that not only gazillion websites talk about non-verbal signs of lying as a perfect way to tell if someone is lying, but even a published books, bestsellers, talk about not maintaining eye contact, or worse, touching one's face as a sure sign of deception. And people are believing it. I wonder, how many relationships got broken because of these so-called "signs". It's rather sad.
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