The special Liars & Con Men issue of the magazine (vol. 26, no. 5) includes a selection of research about lying in politics and business.
Tag: lying
Is This True? “The Liar’s Walk—Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture”
A new study about walking and liars and computers is bountiful for teachers who want their students to decide whether to believe bold claims. See if you can count the bold claims made in the study. “The Liar’s Walk—Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture,” Tanmay Randhavane, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Kyra Kapsaskis, Kurt Gray, Aniket Bera, Dinesh […]
Lies, Lies, Lies — and the people who research why people do that
An article called “WHY WE LIE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND OUR DECEPTIVE WAYS,” in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine, explores research about lying. Three of the researchers discussed there — Bruno Verschuere, Kang Lee, and Dan Ariely — are Ig Nobel Prize winners. Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, the journalist who wrote the article, writes about them: … […]
“Most people don’t lie very often but a few people lie a lot”
“Most people don’t lie very often but a few people lie a lot.” That’s one of the insights honored by this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for psychology. The Vanderbilt University Research newsletter explains: Study about how lying varies with age receives Ig Nobel Prize Centennial Professor of Psychology Gordon Logan [pictured here] is co-author of a paper on […]
