Who Told You That? Uncovering the Source of Believed Cues to Deception

Getting Told and Being Believed

Cues to deception.

Do people behave differently when they are lying compared with when they are telling the truth? The combined results of 1,338 estimates of 158 cues to deception are reported. Results show that in some ways, liars are less forthcoming than truth tellers, and they tell less compelling tales. They also make a more negative impression and are more tense. Their stories include fewer ordinary imperfe...

Commentary Analysis of the Verse “Marry of the Women, Who Seem Good to you”

One of the most important Quranic discussions is to find the essential and spiritual proportions among the expressions of each verse from the Holy Quran. Some people have denied such a proportion in the case of the third verse of An-Nisaa “marry of the women, who seem good to you”; thereby, they have raised the doubt of distortion on deficiency. In other words: since they have not been able to ...

Mining Bodily Cues to Deception

A significant body of literature has reported research on the potential correlates of deception and bodily behavior. The vast majority of these studies consider discrete bodily movements such as specific hand or head gestures. While differences in the number of such movements could be an indication of a subject’s veracity, they account for only a small proportion of all performed behavior. Such...

Are You Lying to Me? Exploring Children's Nonverbal Cues to Deception

The present study investigates how easily it can be detected whether a child is being truthful or not, and explores the cue validity of a child’s body movement for such type of classification. To achieve this, we introduce a combination of methods, in particular a perception test, and an automated body movement analysis. Film fragments from truthful and deceptive children were shown to human ju...