Children pick up cues early, on how to lie, this from their parents. The process is extremely subtle but also effective, inadvertently teaching them the art of slight deception. Parents will ask their kids, “Look me in the eye Johnny, and tell me what you did wrong?”
So what kids immediately realize is that if they want to tell a fib, all they need is to look them in the eye, and then just tell them what they want to hear. Most kids take this to school, and then into …
One of the most popular genres in cinema is about the scam, shysters, the con artists among us, those who outright lie. Unethically extracting their mark from their money. They go beyond telling little fibs, as they have mastered the art of deception.
As a result, there’s been a number of studies in the attempts to detect whether someone is lying to you or not. The biggest problem being that there’s no obvious surface cues which separates if one is telling the truth, or outright trying to rob you blind. …
In real life, when in a face to face confrontation, the majority of us are not that skilled or aware enough to tell if someone is lying directly to our face or not. This percentile rises exponentially when we’re attempting to become human Lie detectors trying to decide if someone online is lying to us.
But current research suggests that when online, there are distinguishable linguistic signals which are dead giveaways to better determine if someone on the other side of the computer is outright telling a fib or not.…