Someone Telling a Lie (IMAGE)

University of Huddersfield

Someone Telling a Lie

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University of Huddersfield investigative psychology lecturer Dr. Chris Street is making breakthroughs that are leading towards a clearer understanding of how humans tell lies and how their deceptions can be detected. For more than 30 years it has been said that we should trust our hunches and unconscious knowledge of body language. Yet his work, described in a new journal article, shows that we would be better off consciously relying on a single "cue", such as whether or not a person is plainly thinking hard.

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