Lie defectives

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The truth shall set you free, but finding it is no piece of cake

 

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when trying to determine who deceives.

Virtually everyone, even those experienced at dealing with deceivers,

detect others' lies no better than would be expected by chance

 

Those sobering conclusions come from the first large-scale analysis of

individual differences in deception detection. It takes two to tangle

in deceptive encounters, note Charles Bond Jr. of Texas

ChristianUniversity in Fort Worth and Bella DePaulo of the University

of California, Santa Barbara. The two psychologists say their analysis

of the findings to date suggest some people are relatively easy to

read, while others shroud their intentions in mystery

 

A person's perceived credibility, as reported by volunteers on

questionnaires, rather than honesty, plays a major role in whether

that person gets branded as a liar, Bond and DePaulo report in the

July Psychological Bulletin. Certain people appear either honest or

dishonest from the get-go, whether or not they're telling the truth,

the psychologists assert. Earlier research has found that baby-faced

people seem credible whereas people who look nervous or avert their

gaze typically get labeled untrustworthy

 

The new analysis shows that participants more often believe liars

perceived as high in credibility than truth-tellers regarded as low in

credibility .

 

Read more in this article :

http://no4depression.blogspot.com/2008/08/lie-detecting.html

 

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