While interviewing the suspect who claims ignorance about an incident, the witness who saw it happen, or the informant who identified the perpetrator, the detective asks a question that will eviscerate the perpetrator’s story. As the suspect prepares to answer, he looks up and to the left, purses his lips, tenses his eyelids, and brings…
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How to Evaluating Truthfulness and Detecting Deception
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You May Be a Better Liar When Your Bladder is Full
New research suggests that there is a link between being a good liar and having a full bladder. Yes, you heard that right. In the paper entitled “The inhibitory spillover effect: Controlling the bladder makes better liars” Iris Blandon-Gitlin, et al loaded up subjects with different amounts of water and had them lie to interviewers. They…
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April, 2015
Kids Know It’s Sometimes Nicer to Lie
Children can be brutally honest, but at what age do they start to realize what they say can hurt other people’s feelings? Felix Warneken and Emily Orlins, two researchers at Harvard, recently set out to investigate that question, and they published their results in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. In their experiment they gathered…
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December, 2014
7 Proven Tactics to Read Body Language
We all send body language cues based on how we feel and what we think. Here’s how to decipher them quickly and in any situation from Business Insider!