Young Children Use Nonverbal Cues to Detect Deception By the time they’re six, tricking your kids is not as easy as it used to be.
Chameleons at Employment: How Job Applicants Fake It to Fit in When people apply for jobs that require them to take personality tests, they face a dilemma—be their true self, or fake it to make it?
Being Ostracized Can Make You a Better Lie Detector Ostracized people have an advantage in detecting lies when it is particularly important for them to distinguish deceptive from truthful statements.
How to Become a Better Lie Detector: Focus on Feelings Do you want to be better at detecting lies? The key is to ask yourself what emotions the other person is feeling.
To Catch a Liar Behavioral science provides an unexpected roadmap for evaluating truthfulness and detecting deception.
Why is Moral Hypocrisy So Pervasive? Admitting to nuanced views about honesty is more costly than hypocritically promoting absolute honesty.
The Personal Costs of Profitable Lies Even when undetected, deception is psychologically costly to deceivers.