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Haven't come across any organized groups for compulsive liars, (perhaps Michael Quanty is right >There is but htey never meet where or when they say they will!<) but did come across these interesting bits of information: (from Beth Benoit University of Massachusetts Lowell) Liars use short sentences, the past tense and negative statements Summarised from an article by Cherry Norton, entitled 'Liars unmasked by the way they speak', in the Sunday Times and from an item by Nigel Hawkes, entitled 'Truth to tell, liars are not easy to spot', in the Times (Sept 8th '97). Bella DePaula, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, has found, in a study of 3,000 people, that the following clues are the most useful indicators of whether somebody is lying: 'Liars say "I am not a crook" rather than "I am honest" ' * Lack of specific detail - not volunteering names of people and places * Short answers * Using the past tense * Using negative statements (for example saying "I am not a crook" rather than "I am honest") * Increased eye contact * Higher pitched voice In one experiment, the diaries kept showed that the student participants lied in 77 per cent of their conversations with strangers, 48 per cent with acquaintances and 28 per cent with good friends. Dr Richard Wiseman, psychologist at Hertfordshire University, believes that people's performance in detecting liars can be improved by up to 70 per cent. His hypothesis is that right-handers (who specialise in using the left-hand side of the brain to pick up verbal and linguistic clues) will be better at detecting liars than left-handers (who use both sides of the brain for the same task). Freeze frame videos reveal liars Summarised from an item by Mark Austin in the Sunday Times (Aug '97) entitled 'Candid camera exposes liars'. 'At one frame per second, the person's underlying micro-expressions are revealed' If a person who is lying is videoed at 25 frames per second, and one frame in 25 is picked out; and if then the selected frames are shown at a rate of one frame per second, the person's underlying 'micro-expressions' are revealed. Almost two thirds of 120 volunteers, in a study led by Dr Richard Wiseman at the University of Hertfordshire, were able to pick out the liars using this method, whereas only just over a third were able to do so with normal footage. Signs of lying were found to include: * moving the head a lot when talking * touching the face * a smile that does not engage the eyes * too much eye contact * short answers to questions * a big gap before answering a question * overcompensating for mistakes * sweat * dilated pupils. |
Title: Re: Liars
