In a recent article by Wired Magazine, author Charles Q. Choi discusses the new trend of video games that analyze players’ emotions in order to create a better gaming experience. Choi states that “Nintendo’s Wii game console may owe some of its extraordinary success to emotions that are triggered by specific movements: It might essentially…
Read MoreEye Scanning Lie Detector
University of Utah researchers have developed a new tool that could potentially detect when someone is lying. The technology, called Ocular Motor Deception Detection software, or OMDD, is a retinal scanning device that is not intended to replace the polygraph machine, but would be used to supplement or provide an alternative method. OMDD was recently…
Read MoreLie to Me Season 3, Episode 7 “Veronica”
In this week’s episode of Lie to Me, entitled “Veronica,” Dr. Lightman and his team help a woman (Veronica) who has Alzheimer’s. Veronica believes that a man named Charlie murdered her sister, as well as patients in the care home she lives in, and is going to come after her. Dr. Lightman once again evades…
Read MoreTruth Detectors: Can You Spot the Truth?
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…
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