While reading people can help in better communicating, it can also help in detecting deception. It was for this purpose that Humintell’s Dr. David Matsumoto and Dr. Hyi Sung Hwang worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigations to develop a rubric for how to effectively tell if you are being lied to. Here, they focus…
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We have shown that nonverbal behavior is crucial to detecting deception, but it seems that our previous discussions have been a little insufficient. Certainly this has been a major discussion in this blog, but we have focused only on individual behaviors, like eye contact or gestures, in order to explain how important nonverbal behavior is.…
Read MoreThe Voice of a Cheater
How effective are verbal cues in exposing our emotions and character? Throughout this blog, we have dwelled extensively on deception detection but have also focused almost exclusively on nonverbal cues. However, a new study in the journal of Evolutionary Psychology, subtle verbal cues can reveal a wealth of detail about a stranger, even including past…
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