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What are the facts and fictions of lie detection to be aware of when one is interviewing a potential client, employee, suspect, etc?
The video below was created by Stan Walters who is an interrogator and interviewer expert. He has worked for the Public Agency Training Council, the largest law enforcement training association in the U.S., for over 20 years.
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What are your experiences with eye contact and truth telling?
Wouldn’t you love to know how to spot a lie?
A lucky few who attended NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences‘ on July 11, 2013 learned some key concepts about how to spot a lie with Humintell Director Dr. David Matsumoto.
What exactly is NightLife?
It is an ongoing event for adults 21+ that takes place every Thursday evening at San Francisco’s CA Academy of Sciences. Event goers have access to all of the current displays and attractions at the academy such as the ever popular planetarium, aquarium and living rain forest exhibit. Combine all those fun attractions with educational presentations (on theme topics), drinks, dancing and good company and that is NightLife.
What was covered in the workshop?
Spotting a lie is more complex than some people think. Research has shown we learn to lie at a very young age (for more info see our past blogs To Youth Are Our Best Liars and Telling Lies) and that there isn’t one tell-tale sign of a liar that is consistent in all situations.
But liars do give off behavioral cues and these cues often occur in multiple channels such as gestures, voice and verbal style. One thing’s for sure: people from all walks of life can improve their ability to detect lies by becoming more aware and skillful in reading the nonverbal cues to lying.
An area that individuals can focus on are facial expressions of emotion, especially those known as micro- and subtle expressions, because these both are involuntary and have demonstrated association with deception.
Want to learn more?
Consider booking an Evaluating Truthfulness or Reading Emotions workshop for your group or organization.
A complete listing of the Workshops Humintell offers can be found here:
http://www.humintell.com/humintell-workshops/
David Hanson of Hanson Robotics shows off his robotic research at his TED Talk Conference with a demo of his “Einstein” creation whose facial features mimic human expressions.
Hanson and his team’s goal is to eventually design a robot that not only realistically mimics human characteristics but that can empathize with us as well. They are doing so with the help of a variety of technologies that converge into the robotics that can be seen in his design featured in the video below. This includes very advanced expression recognition software that allows Hanson’s robots to recognize and emulate human facial expressions.
One field of robotics that has grown exponentially since the inception of robotic expression recognition software is companion robotics. Teams all over the world are working on developing artificial intelligence that can learn and grow as time progresses so that they can interact and aid the human population.
To see how emotion recognition robots are advancing check out some newer projects presented in Robots Read Facial Expressions? and Italian Technology: Emotional Androids?