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Predicting repeat offenders with brain scans: You be the judge
(Medical Xpress)—Despite the well known inaccuracies of polygraph lie detectors, they remain in widespread, if selective, use by the criminal justice system. While they are far from truth machines, if the ...
Neuroscience
Mar 26, 2013 |
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Of course the Tooth Fairy's real: How parents lie in the US and China
Almost everyone teaches their children that lying is always wrong. But the vast majority of parents lie to their children in order to get them to behave, according to new research published in the International Journal of ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 22, 2013 |
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Deception can be perfected
With a little practice, one could learn to tell a lie that may be indistinguishable from the truth.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 06, 2012 |
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Study: We lie when we're short on time or feel justified to do so
(Medical Xpress)—Almost all of us have been tempted to lie at some point, whether about our GPA, our annual income, or our age. But what makes us actually do it?
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 05, 2012 |
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Eye movement direction not correlated with lying, study claims
New research refutes a commonly held belief that certain eye movements are associated with lying.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 11, 2012 |
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Even non-sexual social contact can raise body temperature
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews found that non-sexual social interactions with men caused a noticeable rise in the temperature of a woman's face, without them even noticing.
Medical research
May 30, 2012 |
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Suspicion resides in two regions of the brain
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus.
Neuroscience
May 17, 2012 |
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Older people not as good at lying or detecting lies: study
(Medical Xpress) -- Older people cannot lie as convincingly as younger people, are worse at detecting when others are lying, and the latter is linked to age-related decline in emotion recognition, new University of Otago ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 27, 2011 |
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How to tell when someone's lying
(Medical Xpress) -- When someone is acting suspiciously at an airport, subway station or other public space, how can law enforcement officers determine whether he's up to no good?
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 10, 2011 |
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Inability to detect sarcasm, lies may be early sign of dementia, study shows
(PhysOrg.com) -- By asking a group of older adults to analyze videos of other people conversing -- some talking truthfully, some insincerely -- a group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has determined ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 15, 2011 |
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