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The British Broadcasting Corporation reports<\/a> on the detection of deception. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you know when you’re being lied to? Probably not, since even experienced police interrogators are no more adept at spotting porkies than the rest of us.<\/strong><\/p>

Improve your chances (only moderately, to tell you the truth) with BBC News Online’s expert tips.<\/p>

1) Don’t overestimate yourself<\/strong><\/p>

“It’s extremely hard to spot deception,” says Aldert Vrij, author of the research paper Detecting the Liars, just published in The Psychologist.<\/p>

Mr Vrij points to a study which suggested police officers and lie-detector operators were no better at identifying liars than a control group of students.<\/p>

It may be that the self-confidence law enforcement professionals had in their abilities to spot a lie actually worked against them – causing them to jump to decisions without properly scrutinising a story or its teller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Self-styled “forensic psychophysiologists” (the latest buzzword for “polygraphers”) should take note.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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