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Clues that suggest people are lying may be deceptive, study shows
Researcher Jia Loy, from the University of Edinburgh, created a computerised two-player game in which 24 pairs of players hunted for treasure. Players were free to lie at will.
Researchers coded more than 1100 utterances produced by speakers against 19 potential cues to lying -- such as pauses in speech, changes in speech rate, shifts in eye gaze and eyebrow movements.
The cues were analysed to see which ones listeners identified, and which cues were more likely to be produced when telling an untruth.
The team found listeners were efficient at identifying these common signs.
Listeners make judgements on whether something is true within a few hundred milliseconds of encountering a cue.
However, they found that the common cues associated with lying were more likely to be used if the speaker is telling the truth.
Cues to Lying May be Deceptive: Speaker and Listener Behaviour in an Interactive Game of Deception. Journal of Cognition, 2018; 1 (1): 42 DOI: 10.5334/joc.46
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Subsentient on Saturday October 13 2018, @12:39PM (5 children)
This is true. I often act quite suspiciously when I'm telling the truth but worried you'll think I'm not. And I'm unfortunately aware of that, and can't help it.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 13 2018, @12:45PM (2 children)
Same here. When I have to think about what I'm saying, my eye focus often changes - often times staring over or through the head of the person I'm talking to. I never worry too much whether the other person believes me or not. He/she can think whatever they like.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:49PM (1 child)
That's normal. It's far more likely that somebody that glances away is telling the truth because they don't have to monitor the reaction so closely to know if they're getting away with it.
Ultimately, there isn't any way of really knowing without having the facts in hand or in the future scanning their brain.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday October 13 2018, @10:55PM
It's easy to tell when a politician is lying. There are at least three 100% reliable tells. The first is if they open their mouth to speak. The second is if they set pen to paper. The third is if they begin to press keys on any type of keyboard, real or virtual.
I thought I was wrong, once, but I was mistaken. Why do you ask?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Nuke on Saturday October 13 2018, @01:00PM
No, it's a lie.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Saturday October 13 2018, @09:08PM
Best way to lie to someone - accustom them to a tell that they think shows you're lying.
But doing exactly what you say whenever you're telling the truth.