Lying Summed Up: Believe it or Not

Want a refresher course on deception? Below Humintell sums up some of what science has found on lying, liars and microexpressions. For a brief overview on some Deception and Microexpression Misconceptions read Humintell’s Misconception blogs Part 1 and Part 2 and our Eye Contact Myth blog. Live Science recently pointed out that if accurate lie-detecting…

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Can You Spot a Lie?

John Wills, a former Chicago Police Officer and retired FBI Special Agent, recently wrote an article for Officer.com entitled “Can You Spot a Lie?. In this article, he writes about his conversation with retired FBI Special Agent Mark Bouton (whom you can even follow on twitter), who has become “adept at recognizing certain indices of…

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Detecting Deception or Suspecting Deception?

In a previous blog, we discussed the latest scientific understanding about behavioral indicators of deception. As explained in that blog and the underlying article on which the blog was based, scientific research in the past two decades has made substantial advances in validating a set of behavioral indicators of veracity and deception. This work was…

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Mental Health and Deception Detection

Are we confusing cues of low credibility with atypical behavior of people with mental health issues? Re-published with permission from Evidentia University. Friends of the Nonverbal Communication Blog, this week we present the paper “Atypical behaviors found in some mental health conditions negatively affect judgements of deception and credibility” by Lim, A.; Young, R. L.…

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