http://mindhacks.com/2006/03/24/2006-03-24-spike-activity/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:47:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2006/03/24/2006-03-24-spike-activity/#comment-8036 Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:58:00 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2006/03/24/2006-03-24-spike-activity/#comment-8036 “A study finds few consistent tell-tale signs of lying, providing further evidence against this sort of nonsense.”
I think you are being a bit rough of the ‘nonsense’ and a bit easy on the ‘science’.
No serious researcher or even interested lay person would say that any body language is a sure fire tell of anything. The situation and the people involved have huge impact how people behave.
When people are lying, it is how their body langague differs from what that person does when telling the truth that is important. Each person has to provide their own baseline.
The science here and in much body langangue study is dubious. Being asked to lie, for the benifit of a scientist hardly represents real life. And of course you can’t control a field experiment well enough study lying in a naturlistic setting.
Yet even in the unnatural setting of a lab experiment the study did find statistically significant indicators of lying. E.g. less movement and nose scratching.

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