Last week, I took a poll on what people thought about the polygraph machine. Here is an interesting article that talks further about it that I thought you might find interesting: Foolproof Test for Catching Liars Still Elusive
I voting results can be accessed tomorrow and will be displayed when poll closes in the future.
Facial Expressions: East Doesn’t Meet West
What do you think of this article?
Thanks, Trucrym, for the article suggestion.
Here is an interesting article from Psychotherapy Network Magazine.
Here is an article that you might enjoy. Don’t forget to read page two!
I think O’Sullivan makes a fabulous point:
“It’s not merely seeing the behavior and recognizing it but in interpreting the situation”
In other words, while you’re scanning your date for the usual emotions someone might associate with lying — microexpressions of guilt or fear — you might be missing something bigger.
Your date might not feel guilty at all about lying to get you into bed. In fact, he might be concealing pride or cockiness at his ability to deceive you.”
I think her point is so important, because just seeing and identifying expressions and emotions isn’t enough to accurately understand a situation. So many people show emotional biases that skew their ability when they attempt to understand others, or they use their own past experiences to judge other people’s actions, which will not yield accurate results when reading others.
Read moreIt is critically important to be unbiased when you are trying to understand the actions of another, not jump to quick conclusions, and to explore every potential outcome possible that could explain a situation before formulating an opinion. Of course, doing this is much easier said then done.
How do you teach people to remove emotional and experiential biases? Biases and judgments cloud one’s ability to see the truth.
Here is an interesting fact I had heard several years ago that I thought was quite interesting. I never would have guessed this:
Studies investigating lie detectors’ confidence in their decision making typically reveal three findings. First, there is usually no significant relationship between confidence and accuracy (see DePaulo, Charlton, Cooper, Lindsay, & Muhlenbruck (1997) for a meta-analysis).
Second, confidence scores amongst professional lie catchers are typically high (Allwood & Granhag, 1999; DePaulo & Pfeifer, 1986; Strömwall, 2001; Vrij, 1993) and police officers are sometimes found to be more confident than lay people (Allwood & Granhag, 1999; DePaulo & Pfeifer, 1986) (source).
Do you think you are good at spotting lies?
