Scientists say there is evidence that lying is more cognitively demanding than telling the truth.
interrogations
It’s not just that my clients lie to me a lot, which will only hurt them — it’s that they’re really, really bad at it. My job as a public defender pu…
Lab-based research shows that adults can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that as teens they perpetrated crimes that never actually occurred.
And once you do get them to open up, don’t betray their trust.
Non-verbal communication is just as important as the words people say, and these subtle cues can reveal if someone is lying.
The best detectives seem to have almost supernatural insight, but their cognitive toolkit is one that anybody can use
The conventional wisdom about how to spot a liar is all wrong.
"The home of our truth/lie detector resides in the area of our body that encapsulates the throat, heart, and gut."
The long read: Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but until now, nobody could prove it. By analysing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have revolutionised the art of extracting the truth