Believability in Sender Demeanor

New research, conducted by Human Communication Research , suggests that sender demeanor may be the most influential source of variation in deception detection judgments. Sender Demeanor is the difference in the believability of a message sent by a “sender”, which is independent of the actual honesty of the message. In this study, published in Human…

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Lies, Lies Sweet Little Lies!

Pamela Meyer’s article, Seven Big Lies About Lying,  featured in HuffPost Politics underlines the idea that we live in an “age of deception”.  Here is a sneak peek of the seven lies she delineates in her article. 1.  Lying is the exception to the rule Meyer equates the evolution of deception to an arms race…

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Your Questions Answered By Dr. Matsumoto Part 4!

Thank to you everyone for your overwhelming response to the “Submit your questions to Dr. Matsumoto” post a month ago. Here are a few questions and answers by Dr. Matsumoto himself! Find out more about Dr. Matsumoto and his research at his website You can read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of the…

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The Edge Negotiation Group

The Edge Negotiation Group (ENG) is a California based company that employs Humintell’s microexpression training in their live workshops and individual consultations on behavioral and psychological factors in deception detection and emotion recognition. ENG clients include the FBI, CIA, law enforcement and other intelligence agencies. You can follow ENG’s President Andy Boughton on twitter by clicking here…

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