Comments on: How to detect lies

By: Cait

Cait — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:58:57 +0000

Sometimes we do. Victims will sometimes lie to us or to the police. I’ve often had officers ask me what I tought about a victim’s story, what my impressions were, what I saw.

By: olivia

olivia — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:03:09 +0000

HAHAHAHAH! No it doesn’t.

By: Fuschia Faery

Fuschia Faery — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:40:57 +0000

Ha ha, very funny Livvy! I didn’t tell the whole world, only the people I met on the weekend. And my friends, and published it on my blog, and commented on it on yours. Ok, maybe I did. But wouldn’t you? This sort of thing just doesn’t happen every day 🙂

By: olivia

olivia — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:49:13 +0000

Ooh we synched!

By: olivia

olivia — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:37:08 +0000

I totally agree with you Chad. There are so many unknowns to factor in, like maybe the person you’re talking to hasnt slept properly in weeks so has all sorts of weird facial “ticks” going on, or the person is under pressure to appear truthful when telling the truth so is behaving self-consciously or defensively.

And thanks Faerie. The new site was only launched on Monday. The info about your line manager is very interesting. I dont know why they’d tell you not to talk about it, its not like you’d end up telling the whole world! HAHAHA

So Cait, do you use these sorts of techniques in your line of work?