School House Rock didn't cover contractions- they did conjunctions instead- too bad because contractions can tell us so much more when we are looking for LYING.
Take a look at these two sentences:
"I did not do it!" or "I didn't do it!"
Which one is more likely to be truthful?
Police and interviewers have long known this rule: Statistically, 60% of the people that use contractions are being truthful. The guilty want to make the NOT stand out. Thou does protest too loudly.
When I analyze transcripts of depositions and interviews using Linguistic Software this is one of the items the program pings on.◦
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Lying and Contractions, what's the function...
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