Do you trust that most people are honest? A new study suggests that trusting people often make better lie detectors than cynical people. The study, published by SAGE and posted on the Science Daily website, insists that trusting people are not gullible but in fact very smart. Researchers asked 20 participants to watch taped job…
Read MoreIs Bluffing the Key to Understanding Mental Illness?
MIT’s Technology Review recently wrote an article about a recent study published in the PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.) In this study, researchers found that it is possible to detect unique brain signatures amongst people who are successful bluffers. Dr. Read Montague, professor and computational neuroscientist at the Baylor College of Medicine,…
Read MoreWrongfully Convicted
What do you think the wrongfully convicted can tell us about nonverbal deception detection? Do you think you could tell without a doubt (100%) by someone’s body language, facial, expressions, and verbiage that they were lying? According to an article Body Language and DNA Exonerations posted on the Psychology Today website, most of us including…
Read MoreDetermining Mental State from Tone of Voice Part 2
In our previous blog post, we discussed the possibility of determining someone’s mental state by just hearing 30 seconds of audio. While ideally, it would be great to see their body language, gestures and other nonverbal behavior, this is not always possible. Its important to understand that in order to completely understand someone’s mental state,…
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