People tend to measure dishonesty by a person’s physical tells such as fidgeting, breathing rate, etc. Often times these tells coupled with the baseline of the individual and intuition leads us to be correct in our analysis when it is someone we know well. However, these techniques including measuring blood pressure and pulse as in…
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February, 2014
Separating the Liars from the Truth Tellers
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January, 2014
Society Teaches us that Women are Untrustworthy?
Role Reboot: Culture & Politics reports on how society is teaching our kids that women lie. So how exactly are we teaching children that women lie and can’t be trusted to be as competent or truthful as men? The article comments that lessons about women’s untrustworthiness are in our words, pictures, art, and memory. …
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January, 2014
Liars Are Honest?
Medical News Today (MNT) reports on how liars are truly honest at lying. Human Communication Research recently published a paper that many people are honest about their lying and most individuals tend to lie quite a lot. 527 people were surveyed in the project; reserachers Bruno Verschuere, Shaul Shalvi and Rony Halevy aksed them,…
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December, 2013
Feeling Good about Cheating?
When was the last time you cheated? The definition of cheating is “an immoral way of achieving a goal“. Certainly not something to be proud of or feel good about, cheating is usually associated with feelings of guilt and nervousness. Interestingly, the NY Times reports recent research that shows as long as you didn’t think your…
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