Prismattic comments on Trivers on Self-Deception - LessWrong

33 Post author: Yvain 12 July 2011 09:04PM

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Comment author: Prismattic 12 July 2011 11:31:18PM 9 points [-]

Apparently, most of what one sees on Lie To Me is spurious. At any rate, viewing the show causes people to make more false positive identifications of deception relative to a control group, without being any more accurate at catching real deception:

The Impact of Lie To Me on Viewers' Actual Ability to Detect Deception

Comment author: Peterdjones 16 July 2011 12:17:01PM 1 point [-]

You mean, you can't detect lies by standing three inches from someone and squinting up their nostrils?