Written for Tactics and Preparedness, Issue 6, April 2014 By Dr. Hyi Sung Hwang and Dr. David Matsumoto Behavioral anomalies are verbal and nonverbal signs of cognitions and emotions that give additional clues to what an individual is thinking and feeling beyond the content of the words being spoken. We can improve our ability to…
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October, 2014
Detecting Deception: Are You Being Lied to?
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December, 2013
Deception Detection Debunked
Evaluating Truthfulness is nothing new, but new technology and training programs based on validated scientific studies have sparked new interest in this field of study. Pursuit Magazine goes in depth about about behavioral science’s perceptive on how to conduct successful interviews. Deception detection is not as simple as many people, who are often times untrained,…
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November, 2013
Lance Armstrong: Deception Concealed & Revealed
A new film about Lance Armstrong and his famous and then infamous career dubbed The Armstrong Lie is soon to be released by Sony Pictures. Alex Gibney, a filmmaker, began making a documentary on Lance back in 2009 on what is ultimately a story about power, not a story about doping. “I certainly was very…
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September, 2013
Digital Deception
With smartphones dominating social interaction, texting has become a new way of communicating and for the younger generation it is pretty much the only way of communicating. Phone conversations are a thing of the past and quick, witty vernacular via texting has taken over communication. But, can we really believe everything that is texted to…
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