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Is this person lying

Deception detection is mostly a list of things that do not work. Four of them first, then the methods that beat chance — all of which work by raising the cost of maintaining a lie rather than by watching a face.

1 Fifty-Four Percent: The Ceiling on Human Lie DetectionChapter 51, part 2 — Two structural facts produce the ceiling: valid behavioral cues to deception are weak and inconsistent, and…

2 The Gaze Aversion Myth: A World That Agrees and Is WrongChapter 52, part 2 — The near-universality of the belief coexists with meta-analytic evidence that gaze aversion does not reliably…

3 The Eyes Don’t Have It: Killing the NLP Eye-Movement ModelChapter 53, part 2 — Neuro-linguistic programming’s eye-accessing-cue model asserts that gaze direction maps onto constructed…

4 Voice Stress Analysis: A Technology That Does Not WorkChapter 50, part 2 — Commercial voice stress analysers claim to detect involuntary ‘microtremors’ in the voice indicating stress,…

5 Strategic Use of Evidence: Letting the Liar Trap HimselfChapter 100, part 4 — SUE exploits an asymmetry in counter-interrogation strategies: guilty suspects avoid and deny known…

6 Tell It Backwards: Vrij’s Cognitive Load ApproachChapter 108, part 4 — Lying is cognitively more demanding than truth-telling — the liar must fabricate, monitor the interviewer,…

7 The Founder’s Own False Confession: Darrel Parker, Lincoln, 1955Chapter 92, part 4 — Parker’s case demonstrates the internalised false confession described by Kassin and Wrightsman: prolonged…

8 The Behavior Analysis Interview: Reading Guilt That Isn’t ThereChapter 94, part 4 — Vrij, Mann and Fisher found that liars in real-world-style interviews often behaved in the opposite direction…

9 Brendan Dassey: Suggestibility, Youth, and the Fed-Back DetailChapter 97, part 4 — Dassey’s intellectual limitations plus adolescent compliance created maximal interrogative suggestibility as…

10 Algorithms That Claim to See Lies: VeriPol, iBorderCtrl, EyeDetectChapter 120, part 4 — These systems learn statistical correlates of deception in text, facial dynamics or pupil and eye-movement…

11 Fifty-Four Percent: Why You Cannot Spot a Liar and What Works InsteadChapter 318, part 11 — Bond and DePaulo established that unaided human lie detection barely beats chance, and that confidence is…

12 Protecting the Record: Defending Memory Against ContaminationChapter 330, part 11 — Loftus demonstrated that memory is reconstructive: leading questions and post-event information are…

Start at chapter 51