Comments on: Subtle Expressions Key to Detecting Deception

By: Jordan J.

Jordan J. — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:53:29 +0000

I agree with user19938,
it would be of great help to have conversations, or news clip analyzed and then have us quizzed upon such subjects. the static images of the training is good to start off, but I seem to miss the link in between the newly acquired knowledge and a real situation.
In any case, User19938, you learn alot in the webinars, I strongly suggest you participate in one. All I wish is that we could log on to a video-library that has been previously analyzed to improve our skills.
thank you for the great work, and clear lay out.

By: user19938

user19938 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:53:39 +0000

Quick question. If I take the Mix test and speed it up to 1/5 of a second.. isnt that really the same thing as the subx. The mix moves so quickly that you really can’t see if its subtle or if the expression is pronounced. Also, just a thought.. I can ace these tests very easily, but what I have a hard time is in real life when im engaged in a conversation. You have various expressions moving consecutively and its hard to pick up on these because its back to back movements of the face. I would love to see if you guys can develop something where you have an individual engaged in a conversation flashing any and all expressions, and then asking the user to see if they were able to identify correctly which expressions were flashed. It’s rare that I go into a conversation seeing a neutral face, i see 5 different moves all at one time and then i get puzzled.

By: Humintell Admin

Humintell Admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:44:12 +0000

Hi Chloe,

Dr. Matsumoto has advised that you look at the following article, which can be found on his website.

http://davidmatsumoto.com/content/2000%20A%20New%20Test%20to%20Measure%20Emotion%20Recognition.pdf

Hope this helps!

By: Chloe Marie

Chloe Marie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:41:19 +0000

Hello,

I am a clinical psychology graduate student looking to incorporate microexpression into my dissertation. Where can I find the psychometric properties of this coding system. Thank you in advance!

Chloe Marie

By: Jim McGowan

Jim McGowan — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:38:39 +0000

I too have been successful in recognizing when people are or are not being forthright when speaking. I don’t think it is an innate ability, nor do I think that it is a learned talent. What I do knpw is that at some point in my life I determined – right or wrong – that first impressions are indeed often the best measure of people. At one time I used to try and purposely discard my first impressions of people, thinking that I should learn more about them before “branding” them in one way or another. Over time, however, it became increasingly obvious to me that on the occasions when I would record my first impressions mentally and then look back on them after getting to know certain people better, those first impressions were amazingly accurate. In fact much more accurate than the occasions when I withheld judgment and gave people a wide berth, usually called, “…the benefit of the doubt…”.

I believe that if you are faithfully observant when meeting people for the first time, and watch their expressions, listen carefully to what they say and how they say it, that first “feeling” that you get about them is usually dead-on accurate more often than not.

Jim

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:50:43 +0000

Many thanks for your response; what you say with respect to life experience makes a whole lot of sense.

-Rick

By: David Matsumoto

David Matsumoto — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:27:05 +0000

Hi Rick.

There has been little research done on this topic, but what research has been done shows that the majority of people who are good at detecting deception are not born with this innate ability. Many of these people have honed their deception detecting skills throughout their life through experience (e.g. through a career in law enforcement).

Also, it is important to note that “intuition” can be interpreted differently from person to person. Perhaps someone that is more knowledgeable about micro or subtle expressions would assume it was their “intuition” telling them that a person was lying, when unconsciously they were using their knowledge to come up with an inference.

However, there may be natural lie detectors out there, that have had no formal training whatsoever. Like I mentioned earlier, there hasn’t been that much research on this topic.

Hope this helps.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:31:50 +0000

I’m curious Doc. Some everyday ordinary people, are often accurate at “knowing” when someone is lying; and often, they attribute this to “intuition”. For myself, it also works frequently, via phone and email (note: email only seems to work when I have seen “numerous” other emails from the subject). Could this “intuition” actually be some innate ability to more-often-than-not correctly read Subtle- or Micro-expressions; voice tone and sentence structure?

Thanks for your time
Rick

By: Subtle is the New Micro @ NLP Zine

Subtle is the New Micro @ NLP Zine — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:00:22 +0000

[...] skills. And I check out the Eyes for Lies blog every day, too, which led me to this article: Subtle Expressions Key to Detecting Deception: New research in a paper called Detecting Deception from Emotional and Unemotional Cues by Gemma [...]

By: David Matsumoto

David Matsumoto — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:49:02 +0000

Yes. Feel free to quote a post with a link to our site.