Medical research
Scientists seek ways to finally take a real measure of pain
Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8?
Jan 10, 2019
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News tagged with lie detectors
Psychology & Psychiatry
New study finds group discussion improves lie detection
Though many people believe they can recognize when someone is lying, detecting deception is difficult. Accuracy rates in experiments have proven to be only slightly greater than chance, even among trained professionals.
Jun 11, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Lie detectors and the lying liars who use them
As society becomes more and more dependent on machines to make important decisions, the use of technology for lie detection is becoming increasingly popular. But as much as we would like to rely on technology to give us definitive ...
Jul 18, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The unconscious mind can detect a liar—even when the conscious mind fails
When it comes to detecting deceit, your automatic associations may be more accurate than conscious thought in pegging truth-tellers and liars, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association ...
Mar 24, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Men, women lie about sex to match gender expectations
People will lie about their sexual behavior to match cultural expectations about how men or women should act – even though they wouldn't distort other gender-related behaviors, new research suggests.
May 28, 2013
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Neuroscience
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 person who is ...
Neuroscience
Suspicion resides in two regions of the brain
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus.
May 17, 2012
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