Most detective procedures center around hard physical facts and evidence, but what is the role of detecting nonverbal behavior? A new study in the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior sought to challenge conventional wisdom that emphasized physical facts over nonverbal behavior. By replicating a previous study with slightly different variants, Dr. Eric Novotny and his team…
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March, 2019
The Nonverbal Sleuth
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January, 2019
Microexpressions Differentiate Truths from Lies about Future Malicious Intent
Finally! The first scientific evidence that microexpressions are a Key to telling if someone is lying! While there has been a general consensus that microexpressions play a significant role in deception detection for decades, in reality there had never been a research study published in a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that documented that claim. Until now.…
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March, 2018
Reading People Can Help Aid in Detecting Deception
While reading people can help in better communicating, it can also help in detecting deception. It was for this purpose that Humintell’s Dr. David Matsumoto and Dr. Hyi Sung Hwang worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigations to develop a rubric for how to effectively tell if you are being lied to. Here, they focus…
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August, 2017
Reading Deceptive Eyes
Eyes are an incredibly important part of emotional recognition, but what role do they have in allowing us to detect deception? While conventional opinion tends to hold that failure to maintain eye contact is a tell-tale sign of deception, this is actually just a pervasive myth. However, because eyes are so important in reading emotions,…
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