Lie detection can be called the most needed and dreamed gift of all times. We think that if we know the truth, hundreds of problems will be solved (but, possibly, thousands of a new will be created instead). And we have a decent number of methods to detect lie: body language, voice changes, some special noises... But does it actually work? Is it any good? Can we use it? Or better to call lie detection expert to do that work for you?
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- Have you ever been interested in lie detection?
- How often do you know that someone lies?
- Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
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Just when i saw it in the movies - these was only moments when i thought about it and wondered whether it was possible to cheat the machine.
How often do you know that someone lies?
It's hard to say as You can always tell when an "unexperianced" lier is lying but when You meet a real lying "artisian" it is close to impossible to ever know what's the truth.
Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
No I've never tried to look any information about it and never really needed it for anything.
I'm just wondering, as "lying" is a subject in which almost everyone has some experiance, why didn't You ask something like: "how often do YOU lie?" or something like that, I think that this could be really interesting to read :-)
2. It depends, when I listen to some political speeches, yes it is very easy. In daily life, it is to me not that easy, as I have a tendency to believe people in general.
3. Once I tried to watch a bit of content, that would show how to detect lies based on body language. Sometimes you may notice when people get nervous or start sweating, but I guess it would more apply to lies while being interrogated.
2. I myself just can't lie, but I can quite often detect when people close to me lie. It's either obvious from their behavior, moves, voice temper or just from the information they say that I know is not true.
3. As I stated before I read a bit about it in the past. I know that for example it is quite common for people to touch their nose when their laying because of intensified blood pressure in it. But it depends on a person. If someone doesn't feel that emotion which leads to blush then he/she probably won't touch the nose.
Of course there are also people who can perfectly control their body so there are no any evidence of lie.
2. I think that I am able to tell if someone is confabulating. Sometimes I have an occasion to hear certain stories which are just too improbable. That’s a little bit cringy, because everybody is laughing when such person goes deeper into his hilarious story with such details, that it is absolutely impossible that the story is real. I think that sometimes people just want to be funny, or to be listened with attention. I can give you two examples of stories which are probably a lie. One of them was a description of the situation which occurred on the training yard during the driving lesson. “And suddenly a motorcycle without a driver drove in front of our faces with high speed”. I really can’t imagine how something like this could have happened. Maybe you have an idea 😊 The second example is the story about trying to connect to an internet device by a wire put across whole apartment without father’s notice, with various creative methods. Yes – you can definitely place a wire on the floor without anybody noticing… I remember that I used to lie like that during childhood too, but now I find such behaviour pathetic and childish.
3. No, I haven’t.
Yes, I used to watch many crime movies and observe such technologies. I was fascinate by the level of advance technics and capabilities. My favorite game was to learn, predict and plan every move of perfect crime, not to be caught.
2. How often do you know that someone lies?
On the one hand I think I always know when someone lies, I can feel when something is not right, but on the other hand I want to believe people and don't be suspicious so. despite of signs, I tell myself to trust.
3. Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
Yes I did, but I couldn't test them, so I don't know if they were effective. I tried to control me breath and mimic reactions or even persuasion consisting of making myself believe in lied story and change the past in my memories.
No, not really. I was always curious about it whenever something like this or other truth serums came up on some movies.
2. How often do you know that someone lies?
I usually assume that people wouldn't lie to me on some important stuff.
Especially those who are closest to me.
There is also a definition of a 'white lie' - It's a lie that people often use as of way of not hurting someones feelings just by telling them the truth.
I believe such lies are used on daily basis by everyone and i think it's ok - unless someone really needs us to express our true opinion then you'd have to think of a gentle way of telling him what he wants to hear.
3. Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
No, I never actually had the need to learn such methods.
2.I haven't encountered many situations when someone tried to lie to me so I can't really say.
3. No as I said I am not interested in this topic so i haven't. May one day I will try.
2. It's hard to say, I usually believe and trust people. When my colleagues lie, I can feel it. I know something is wrong. Always more than if someone is lying, I was interested in why he or she does it?
3. As I mentioned, I watched several tutorials about lie detection, but to be honest they were not very useful. During the game of poker, my method was to observe and analyze. It was extremely hard because you also have to watch your behavior and not show your emotions.
1. No, I have never ever been interested in lie detection. I just do not care.
2. Sometimes at first it can't be detected that this person is lying. But then it always comes to light. So I think it's not worth lying, because as the saying goes, a lie has short legs.
3. No I did not try to learn some methods of lie detection. Why? Because I value honesty and I am a sincere person. I hate lies and manipulation.
2. Sometimes at first glance you know that someone is lying because he doesn't behave naturally. Personally I can't lie and hate when someone is doing this.
3. No, I haven't
It’s interesting what people can do to break the test.
2. It’s depends on how experienced and tricky the speaker is. There are people who make it for living, for example politicians. It can be very hard to find out whether someone is lying while she or he does it for all her or his life.
3. I know few that are the most popular ones, like sweating, scratching in one certain place or blinking. Every person has a sensitive point, you can find it out when you know the person for longer time. But as I said before, if someone is doing it professionally or for a living, it can be hard to find out because of her/his level of proficiency in lying.
2. It all depends on the person I'm talking to. For some, it's very easy to detect when someone is lying. Most often it consists of body language, eyesight, or a change in tone of voice. Sometimes, however, there are such interlocutors who can control it and I cannot detect their lies. Personally, I rather manage to catch the moment when a person is lying, but this rarely happens.
3. No, I have never tried it and I will never try. As I mentioned earlier, I'm not very interested in this subject and in my life I consider it an unnecessary skill. I would prefer to learn something else instead, e.g. recognize the feelings that guide the interlocutor and how they affect his speech.
No, have never been interested in lie detection only lie detector I wondered if I could lie to lie detector
2. How often do you know that someone lies?
Almost never I’m too gullible person
3. Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
I didn’t try to learn any methods of lie detection.
2. As I mentioned above I got bogged down in this topic and I know some signs that indicate that someone is lying. Firstly body language can help us decipher a liar. If you notice someone touching their face/neck who normally doesn't, it is a signal to keep in the back of your mind. Moreover liar avoid eye contact and they don't blink. Secondly they change patlance, it's mean that they pause before speaking and repeat themselves.
3. Yes, I have tried the methods. I think that it isn't a problem to put this knowlenge into practise because most of us lie, statistic shows that 60 % of people lied at least once during a 10-minute conversation.
Sure I've been interested in lie detection, it's human psychological nature that we're curious about the truth.
2. How often do you know that someone lies?
Quite often, mostly when people brags about something, but I don't get mad - sometimes it's our nature and that's just funny :)
3. Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
Yeah, I can remember of one Ted talk about lie detection, there're so many symptoms of lying that if you know someone well, it's easy to tell if the person is lying.
2. Sometimes it is possible to notice, like when someone tries to avoid answering a question and when they can’t run from the answer anymore, they tell some awkwardly patterned things.
3. You can often see some videos or articles about lie detection here and there and I watched them out of curiosity but that’s it.
To be honest since I saw sometime ago how easy it is to cheat a lie detector I haven't been much interested in the topic. I am aware that the technology might have gone far further since I last checked but I can't say that I even bothered to update my knowledge.
2.How often do you know that someone lies?
It is a tricky thing to tell if somebody is lying but sometimes it is pretty much obvious. Me as a rather trusting person (sometimes even naive) I don't very often think about people as liars but there are times when even I can tell that somebody is not being honest. Changing tone, not looking straight in the eyes or becoming nervous are just few of the things that light my warning light.
3.Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
I have read about some methods but to be honest I would be lying if I said that I learned any of them. I usually rely on those methods which come naturally - my instinct. If I think that I am being lied to then it propably means that I am.
2. It depends, sometimes you see that someone is lying, but sometimes it is very difficult to notice.
3. No, I didn't.
2. Not really often actually. Although I find that lie detection process is very interesting, in effect I am not good at detecting lies. I have to admit I am extremely gullible and believe almost anything someone tells me.
3. I’ve been trying to learn the methods of lie detection for a long time, but it’s really hard and long-term process to effectively learn them. Anyway I am not gonna give up on this,I think that this skill can be very helpful in life.
2. As mentioned before I like to think I'm relatively good at seeing through somebody else's lies. People tend to behave very differently when they are hiding something and I pick up on those behavioural changes fairly easly especially if the person I'm currently talking to is someone I know well.
3. For quite a whileI have been intrested in body language and how to read it proplerly also in psychological tricks that can be used to make your interlocutors lose tracks of their lies and in the end force them into admitting theye weren't truly honest with me from the beggining.
2. If I know someone well, I know when he is telling the truth. If it is someone I have recently met, it goes worse. Of course, some behavior raises suspicions, so I do not know whether the person is telling the truth or lying.
I also wondered if it was possible to cheat polygraph. And it turns out that it's very easy to do. You just need to not worry about your answers (especially the false ones). I assume that with a bit of practice anyone can cheat the machine.
You made a huge work in this type of problem. But I hope that you only use this for education purposes and not for your own benefit.
I wish you luck in your learning and lots of winnings in poker.
Yes, I remember some situations in my life when I need it. For example, when I was studying law, we were simulating the proceeding. And u could get some pluses, if you explain in what place, testimony at odds with the truth. We used simple logic to do that. It was very important to find the truth, to be just.
But now I know that it`s just an abstract form, that we received from past, it doesn`t exist somewhere else, except our own inside world; so I shifted my paradigm – I don’t care about lie and truth, they are the same, the only difference between them, how we explain it to ourselves. Of course, there are those who need one (truth, goodness) and another (lie, evil), to call something “something” (fairness, good/bad) and to make others think the same. But let’s be honest – everyone gets what he deserves. And the only thing that really matters is your deeds.
2. How often do you know that someone lies?
As I told before, my behavioral model doesn`t need such thing like lie. When someone askes me, and he uses not specific questions, I just answer him in not complete form. I think in such way, because for me, it doesn`t matter, what somebody is telling to me, I just don’t care, I don’t believe, I even don’t ask myself, am I believe? If someone told me lie – Okay, if someone told me truth – Okay, too. My opinion will not change. And the opinion is – the only thing that really matters is your deeds, not words.
3. Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
I`m not such a person who want to prove something to somebody or convince somebody in something. I am, and I try to make myself better, I want be sure, that I`m going in right direction, and maybe then I`ll try to share my way (and this way has no such a definition as “lie”). But there is “logic”, if something is illogical, I just stop it, I mean the conversation, for example, or any relations between me and those who use irrationality…
I had the same problem as you. Mostly it was because in conversation i thought only about answers and information that I get and deliver. But after thousands of attempts and some practice it was possible, but not so good as I expected.
Yes, this topic is interesting to me. It is very interesting, how it can be spotted, how we can use this knowledge and where. Also, for me, it was interesting with lie detectors until I find out they could be easily fooled.
2. How often do you know that someone lies?
To be honest, not so often. Sometimes I have a feeling, that the person next to my is lying but I am not 100% sure is it. Because of this, I try not to rely only on words, but I also need some evidence, that can confirm saying.
3. Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
Yes, some time ago I was very interested in how to detect the lie. I have read a lot of books, watched some films, etc. but it didn't help me a lot. Plus there is always someone, who can trick this or the knowledge is a little bit old or something else, so I left this.
Have you ever been interested in lie detection?
Not really...
How often do you know that someone lies?
The important thing to remember from this is that no person will exhibit all of these behaviors. Matching a single (or even a few) of these behaviors tells you with just as much certainty that someone is being deceptive as flipping a coin. Although, I can't tell how to lie spot but here are a few things that can help deal with lies:
- If someone reaps his sentence or staring with a point that "a friend of him told sth..."
- If the information has an unknown source from. Unless they're a smooth criminal, you can pretty much expect to heard an, "uuhhh I heard it somewhere before.".. nah, that's a lie too.
- If it's being passed as a fact, just Google it. You have what basically amounts to the entire collective of human knowledge with you at all times. If you can't find it on Google it likely isn't true.
Lastly, you can think about whether or not a story is plausible. I personally don't worry about the veracity of stories too much, since they exist mainly for entertainment value. I generally give the first tale the benefit of the doubt. Everyone has at least one story where the impossible did happen, so everyone gets a single impossible feat. After that, well, just call them on their bs lol. Don't be a stubborn about it, but point out flaws, inconsistencies, and things that are just downright impossible. If they're smooth enough to cover the holes without looking like a bumbling idiot, then just let it go. :d
Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
No. Please watch this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1pWCkW95W0)
2. It's impossible to tell how often do i know if somebody actually lies. Because if i don't know...i don't know. And even if i suppose that somebody lies to me and I am correct I have no idea if the other time I believed this particular person, that it was actually the thruth. The only thing i can assume is that when i know somebody quite close there is more likely i would know they are for example truly nervous and missing some important points in conversation.
3. I never tried to learn anything like this myself. As I mentioned before I was interested in methods of detection but not really in using them.
2. In my opinion it is very hard to realized if someone who we are tolking to is lying or not. Unfortunately some people lie every day so many times that over time they become experts in this field.
3. I never thought about that. I only have heard about that sometimes, just during a conversation, thanks to using our body language we could see if the other person is trying to deceive us, but how I mentioned it is very difficult.
1. When I was young, in the cartoons there were some lie detectors. Now, not really, I find it very usefull, but not in the area where I live. I watched a short movie how it works and there are plenty methodes how to cheat them.
2. It is easy to find that someone is lieing, they often dont look in your eyes, and they are nervous. Of course there are some people who are the masters in lying and I propably will never know the truth, but in general I think I can find what is truth.
3. I have never tried. I know only about the body language, eyes or the way they speak.
Sometimes people do not even know they lie, because they believe. The most common way of knowing that someone is lying is knowing the truth. Also there are some methods that can unveil the truth, but they are not 100% exact. You may feel someone is lying, or you can notice their manner changes and simple marks that can help you to know. I've tried to teach myself, but it's a very difficult and uncommon for me so I left that idea.
Yes, I heard about lie detection in my school time, I was not that much into this topic back then, but now I am more curious about how lie detectors work.
2.How often do you know that someone lies?
To be honest, I didn't pay attention to it seriously, I guess it happened everyweek, for example, when I was with my close friends, if we were meeting and I would tell them I am in the bus now, it usually meant I just went out or maybe still at home... beacuse they usually did the same to each other too XD anyway we prefer to treat it as a joke rather than a lie.
3.Did you try to learn some methods of lie detection?
No, I didn't, I simply think it will be too tired to detect others' lies all the time, I guess it is better to let it be if the lies are not that serious.
2. I do not know that. I often suspect, but I'm not 100% sure. People lie notoriously and statistically, they do it 5 times a day. They often do it out of laziness or for their own defense. Sometimes it's good that people cheat. Thanks to this we are happier. The truth is not always good for us.
3. Yes, I tried to do it. The easiest way of learning on your loved ones. We know them well and know how they behave when they cheat. However, I think it is very difficult and you need to have a lot of experience to be a specialist in this field.
The easiest way to detect the lies of your loved ones or your friends. Because you know their way of communicating, behaviour, habits and gestures.
The most interesting thing is the experiment with the computer. Will a person be able to deceive artificial intelligence?
And in what way would a machine be able to understand the lie? Even if a person can't always detect the deception. I'm really fascinated about this question. And I would like to know more about such an experimnets.