Can Ordinary People Detect Deception After All?

Commentary: Can Ordinary People Detect Deception after All?

A Note on Methods Used for Deception Analysis and Influence of Thinking Stimulus in Deception Detection

Lie or deception analysis is a significant challenge for investigators especially in crime cases. Identifying liar from normal human behaviour has higher relevance with external behaviour and cognitive functionality of human brain. Methods such as polygraph, cognitive polygraph, facial electromyography, eye tracking, voice stress analysis and functional magnetic resonance imaging have been alre...

Argument Formation in the Reasoning Process: Toward a Generic Model of Deception Detection

Research on deception detection has been mainly focused on two kinds of approaches. In one, people consider deception types and taxonomies, and use different counter strategies to detect and reverse deception. In the other, people search for verbal and non-verbal cues in the content of deceptive communication. However, general theories that study fundamental properties of deception which can be...

Detecting deception in a bluffing body: the role of expertise.

Studies of deception detection traditionally have focused on verbal communication. Nevertheless, people commonly deceive others through nonverbal cues. Previous research has shown that intentions can be inferred from the ways in which people move their bodies. Furthermore, motor expertise within a given domain has been shown to increase visual sensitivity to other people's movements within that...

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...