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Clues That Suggest People are Lying May be Deceptive, Study Shows

posted by chromas on Saturday October 13 2018, @12:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the would-you...do-you-believe-that? dept.

upstart writes:

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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

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @01:22PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @01:22PM (#748293)

    HINT: Normal people don't rant and rave against their elected officials, still denying the legitimacy of the election, years after the election takes place.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:25PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:25PM (#748304)

    Normal people don't rant and rave against their elected officials, still denying the legitimacy of the election, years after the election takes place.

    Sorry, are we talking about Democrats during the Trump presidency, Republicans during (and after) the Obama presidency or can we just settle on neither of those camps representing "normal people"?

    • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 13 2018, @03:20PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 13 2018, @03:20PM (#748313) Journal

      That third works for me - but I think you'll admit that the current crop of abnormals are more irritating. Probably because the media pushes them out front, and never allows us to ignore them. At least with O'Bummer, the freaks didn't get front page headlines every single day.

      • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by khallow on Saturday October 13 2018, @04:31PM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 13 2018, @04:31PM (#748341) Journal

        At least with O'Bummer, the freaks didn't get front page headlines every single day.

        I'd rather have irritating than invisible.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:53PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:53PM (#748310)

    A significant minority of people do. Between Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump it's hard to find a President since the previous Bush who was accepted as legitimate by enough people to have it considered normal.

  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Thexalon on Saturday October 13 2018, @05:25PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Saturday October 13 2018, @05:25PM (#748350)

    Normal people don't rant and rave against their elected officials

    If normal people aren't at least occasionally ranting and raving against the people in charge of the government, then they aren't living in a free country. Either that, or they've been effectively de-politicized, where they have no real political opinions of their own and may occasionally vote for the same political party their parents or friends do.

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