deception - Part 7

19 April, 2016

Experts Give Tips in Spotting Deception

By Seth Bornstein WASHINGTON (AP) Spotting a lie isn’t as quick and easy as it looks on television. With time and training, it is possible to get a good sense of when someone is deceiving you, experts say. “It’s really about how to observe very carefully,” said Pamela Meyer, author of the book “Liespotting” and…

5 March, 2016

Detecting Deception

by Humintell Admin

By Laura Zimmerman, March 2016, Vol 47, No. 3, Print version: page 46 Research has consistently shown that people’s ability to detect lies is no more accurate than chance, or flipping a coin. This finding holds across all types of people — students, psychologists, judges, job interviewers and law enforcement personnel (Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2006).…

1 February, 2016

How to Evaluating Truthfulness and Detecting Deception

by Sayaka Matsumoto

While interviewing the suspect who claims ignorance about an incident, the witness who saw it happen, or the informant who identified the perpetrator, the detective asks a question that will eviscerate the perpetrator’s story. As the suspect prepares to answer, he looks up and to the left, purses his lips, tenses his eyelids, and brings…

2 January, 2015

Airport Security and Detecting Deception

by Humintell Admin

A new study recently published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology has confirmed that a new era of airport security screening is upon us. The study conducted by Thomas Ormerod of the University of Sussex and Coral Dando of the University of Wolverhampton, was partially funded by the British government. Two hundred four mock airplane…