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It is well documented that lying during interviews takes up more cognitive energy than telling the truth. A new study by the University of Portsmouth found that investigators who used this finding to their advantage by asking a suspect to carry out an additional, secondary, task while being questioned were more likely to expose lie tellers. The extra brain power needed to concentrate on a secondary task (other than lying) was particularly challenging for lie tellers.
[...] "Our research has shown that truths and lies can sound equally plausible as long as lie tellers are given a good opportunity to think what to say. When the opportunity to think becomes less, truths often sound more plausible than lies. Lies sounded less plausible than truths in our experiment, particularly when the interviewees also had to carry out a secondary task and were told that this task was important."
[...] Professor Vrij said: "The pattern of results suggests that the introduction of secondary tasks in an interview could facilitate lie detection but such tasks need to be introduced carefully. It seems that a secondary task will only be effective if lie tellers do not neglect it. This can be achieved by either telling interviewees that the secondary task is important, as demonstrated in this experiment, or by introducing a secondary task that cannot be neglected (such as gripping an object, holding an object into the air, or driving a car simulator). Secondary tasks that do not fulfil these criteria are unlikely to facilitate lie detection."
So if you think your significant other is hiding something from you, grill them when they're driving a car.
Journal Reference:
Aldert Vrij et al., The Effects of a Secondary Task on True and False Opinion Statements [open], Int J Psychol Behav Anal, 8, 2022
DOI: 10.15344/2455-3867/2022/185
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @12:38PM
There seems to be a lot of "leadership" training going on among the management folks these days.
It probably works on laymen.
But highly skilled artisans, engineers, tradesmen, technicians, and other people experienced in the trade will get highly pissed if some manager tries to use that quickie leadership crap on them.
They recognize that manipulative businesstalk.
Bad as TV pitchmen. Look at this air fryer! But they won't say how to take it apart to clean it. You will find out after you have had it for a while, the oil laden air has deposited oil all over the innards you can't get to, and only the roaches can get in there.
And the entity from whose mouth erupts such crap loses all credibility, however it will still be obeyed as long as it possesses an instrument of obedience, such as control of your paycheck, legal means, blackmail, threats of bodily harm, gun. The businesshead has already spoke of how dumb it considers me to be. Talk about demotivation!
It's like that marketing crap they learn at school...how to say things certain ways to mislead people. Grandpa called 'em snake oil salesmen. Used-car salesmen. TV Preachers. People one shouldn't trust. People who speak with forked tongue.
Yet people still get college degrees, even at the master level, to learn this kind of stuff. Marketing.
It will flare tempers as much as a micromanaged engineer commenting to one of these leadership types that people that strive for these leadership positions simply lack the abstractive skills to realize that we are here to satisfy the needs of our customer, and our customer could care less if we brought a coffeepot in. But our customer won't like it at all if we deliver junk, even if it's ahead of schedule. And we need to focus on our customer, to hell with someone's ego, derived from all this ranking, compartmentalization, and getting all of us lower level people at each other's throat.
I know a lot of people would enjoy a good dogfight or cockfight, but setting the workplace up, ranking us all like racehorses, doesn't do much to motivate for excellence. It only motivates for survival.
Why are parents so attentive to treat siblings the same? Or maybe the parents want sibling rivalry?
I can tell you if I do not treat my cats the same, there will be catfights.
Maybe abstractive reasoning is absent in leadership types, and they actually enjoy being in a position to foment catfights among the worker bees.
I would expect this kind of insight from the CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Leadership training? This is more down the line of how to destroy a nation by demoralizing the workforce .