Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Prediction: Next Season 'Lie to Me' Science Behind the Show Spotlight

Blinking during and after lying.

As cognitive processing occurs there is a decrease in eye blinks, directly followed by an increase in blinking after the lie is told. Truth tellers do not change blink rate...

For more about the science of deception:
Blinking during and after lying. Leal, Sharon; Vrij, Aldert; Journal of Nonverbal
Behavior, Vol 32(4), Dec 2008. pp. 187-194. [Journal Article]◦
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