All human beings possess the ability to lie. And many of us do — multiple studies have suggested that, on average, Americans ...

An early form of lie detection existed in India 2,000 years ago. Back then, a potential liar was told to place a grain of rice in his mouth, and chew. If he could spit out the rice, he was telling the ...

Since 1989, there have been 261 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. These are cases where DNA evidence irrefutably showed that the convicted felon had not committed the offense and ...

The study analyzed 121 short videos as part of a small dataset to distinguish between truthful and deceptive conversations. Scientists have revealed that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), a type ...

They were so arrogantly sure that the behaviors and protestations they saw were lies that they could not recognize the truth. That is the price of falsely believing we are good at detecting deception.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Some college students occasionally lie to their parents, peers, faculty/staff, and even their campus counselors. However, a ...

Recent research published in Applied Cognitive Psychology provides new evidence regarding the relationship between personality traits and the ability to lie and detect lies. The study compares ...