A new study reported on by LiveScience suggests an alternative interpretation to the well-established fact that humans are terrible at correctly determining when they are being deceived. Previous studies have shown that humans are no better than chance at detecting deception; however, this study suggests that the subconscious mind may be better at detecting deceit…
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April, 2014
Subconscious Lie Detector
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March, 2014
Positive Effects in Detecting Lies from Training to Recognize Behavioral Anomalies- 2014
What’s the latest research news in detecting lies with behavioral anomalies? You asked and Humintell has answered Presupposing that clues to deception do exist (which science has proven), an important question is whether individuals in general can be trained to improve their ability to detect lies via training tools. Drs. David Matsumoto and Hyisung Hwang…
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February, 2014
Confessing Half the Truth is Worse than a Full Confession
A recent study purports that people who fully confessed after lying when given the opportunity to come clean, felt better than those who partially confessed. The study which was published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Personality and Social Psychology was comprised of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Ben-Gurion University of…
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February, 2014
Separating the Liars from the Truth Tellers
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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