By Seth Bornstein WASHINGTON (AP) Spotting a lie isn’t as quick and easy as it looks on television. With time and training, it is possible to get a good sense of when someone is deceiving you, experts say. “It’s really about how to observe very carefully,” said Pamela Meyer, author of the book “Liespotting” and…
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April, 2016
Experts Give Tips in Spotting Deception
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March, 2016
Julie Harper: Is this Genuine Sadness?
Julie Harper admitted to fatally shooting her husband, Jason Harper, in their North County home on Aug. 7, 2012, but claims she did it in self-defense, alleging that she feared Jason would kill or rape her. Harper took the stand in her own defense and described the day she shot and killed her husband. Take…
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March, 2016
Detecting Deception
By Laura Zimmerman, March 2016, Vol 47, No. 3, Print version: page 46 Research has consistently shown that people’s ability to detect lies is no more accurate than chance, or flipping a coin. This finding holds across all types of people — students, psychologists, judges, job interviewers and law enforcement personnel (Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006).…
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February, 2016
Consequences Of Revealing Embarrassing Details
Confessing embarrassing information is often better than withholding it. Research finds that people distrust withholders of details more than they dislike revealers of unsavory information.