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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 14 2022, @09:59PM (3 children)
That may be, but ari has been posting obvioysly troll info which makes me wonder if he never doxxed real info. In that case Runaway is lying to you, something that seems likely given his history of sock puppeting and believing the ends justify the means. Not that you need to take action without evidence, but please keep the possibility in mind.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday May 15 2022, @05:19AM (2 children)
How do you know? What about if 1 or 2 items of that quoted in the GGP [soylentnews.org] are accurate and he is actually phishing for confirmation? How do you know it was always aristarchus posting it?. Was the GGP aristarchus? Or was it the account that we have just exchanged several emails on the subject before the account was blocked? Or are they actually the same person using another of the 8 or so sock-puppets that we have blocked over recent weeks for this very thing?
This is precisely what aristarchus is trying to achieve. He is hoping to spread doubt and he will then argue to be allowed to rejoin the community. We have the evidence saved. It has been provided in full to the target. It would be available to LE or a legal representative if they produce a judges order and warrant. He now wants you to believe that it was never really doxing - I can assure you that it was.
It is wrong to expect us to approach each target of doxing to ask them to confirm personal information - that is not our job. They are entitled to have a username and a throw-away email address if they wish which means they cannot be contacted. They are also entitled to their privacy.
We cannot imagine, as I pointed out earlier, that revealing a username's personal information will be relevant to any topic that we publish. What justification is there for such activity? It should not happen.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 15 2022, @09:47AM (1 child)
I do believe that janrinok has been distracted enough. He has been totally taken in by Runaway, and those of us who know, know this to be true. If the admin does not confirm the doxxing allegation, and only relies on the averrances of the alleged "victim", how are we to know it was actually that? And, the cute threats of legal action, when Josh Dugger is being sentenced, are laughable. Arkansas is no state for honest men, as Clinton and Runaway both prove.
And what emails are these you speak of, janrinok? Yet another innocent Soylentil caught up in Runaway's net of mendacity and iniquity? I hope you banned them, and banned them hard, with extra sparkles.
aristarchus
And, as a postscriptum, where I come from, an accusation of lying such as janrinok has done would be a matter of honor. And if the accusation were true, a matter for shame and resignation.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday May 15 2022, @10:46AM
At least 5 people on the administration have seen the doxing material. It has been discussed with a representative of the SN board. We are not going to do what you want - i.e. publish doxing material simply to counter your puerile arguments and accusations.
Nobody has made any threats of legal action.
The discussion is closed. You know our email address.