Lie to Me: What is a Micro-Expression?
Can you tell when someone 's lying to you just by looking at them as they speak? Imagine a world where you could visibly see deception! Picture a world where liars can be detected using one of the smallest most complex organs of the body, the human eye. In 1996 during a study of psychotherapeutic interviews two scientists, Haggard and Isaacs, discovered micro expressions. At this time they called them “micro momentary expressions”. A micro expression is a brief involuntary expression of concealed emotion. The interesting thing is these expressions can occur deliberately or unconsciously and they only last a fraction of a second. During the study Haggard and Isaacs implied that these micro expressions could not be recognized in real time.
Later, Paul Ekman and Friesen declared that with the correct training anyone could learn to see micros while they occur. The use and detection of micro expressions can positively impact our would by helping us spot deception and pick the lies out of the truth. Micro expressions normally only last for 1/15th or 1/25th of a second. According to research they are the same in every culture, race, etc. They show one of the seven emotions that have universal signs. The emotions are as follows: fear, disgust, contempt, happiness, sadness, surprise, and anger. The first step in reading micro expressions is intently studying these seven emotions. When studying the universal sign for fear you should watch for
A professional deception detector, and author, Pamela Meyer points out the fact that, “ Lying is complex. It 's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives. We 're deeply ambivalent about the truth…. It 's as old as breathing. It 's part of our culture, it 's part of our history. Think Dante, Shakespeare, the Bible, News of the World”, in a TED Talk in which she details certain clues about how to
Then I read the article called Lies that Fail by Paul Ekman and Mark G. Frank (Ciulla, Martin & Solomon, 2014, p.61) which discusses the ways to detect lies and ways that the truth would leak out of a lie. Which led me
The harmful effects of microaggressions on an individual are derived from how subtle and indirect the statements are. Derald Sue, clarified that microaggressions are damaging to the person who is experiencing them because while they feel insulted they are not sure if the perpetrators are aware (Sue, 2010). Thus, people having these experiences are caught in a Catch-22 (Sue, 2010). The subtly of microagressions is what puts people in a “psychological bind” (Sue, 2010). Sue believed that in order to understand the severity of
During interrogations, the various changes in facial expressions portrayed by those being observed help the observers such as government institutions and other individuals to detect lies.
Pamela Meyer thought me how to spot a liar. Lying could result in consequences, lying could also cost the world billions of dollars. Deceptive head shaking, body language, and fake smiles are possible indications of a liar. I get lied to all the time at work, my kids lie sometimes, family lies, and sometimes I lie to protect someone’s feelings. If someone is lying to me, I can usually detect it from their body language or their responses. Liars usually avoid a question by asking a question. Apollo Robbin’s: The art of misdirection, was funny. His model of attention was entertaining, it was really easy for Apollo to change his guest attention. He had his guest concentrate on the chip in his hand while Apollo pick pocket his guest jewelry and
From viewing Pamela Meyers’s video about how to spot liars, I have learned several tips that would help me identify whether a person is lying or not lying. The two main ideas to spotting a liar is by body language and by speech. These two points are essential in the way a person expresses themselves, and how they speak for themselves. According to Pamela Meyers, everyone has lied once before whether they were aware or unaware of it. I agree that every person has lied once in their life, but I think it depends on the situation that they were put in, which may have been the cause that made them commit a lie. This video relates to Business Communications since people are supposed to use a clear sense of expression when communicating with other people through a professional business situation.
This video follows former CIA agent Susan Carnicero in trying to explain some key points in spotting a lie. The main steps she said to follow or notice when trying to detect a lie are as follows: analyze vs speculate; manage your bias; recognize evasiveness; beware of aggression; differentiate between convince vs convey; and lastly, know the non-verbal cues. Throughout the video she goes more in depth into each of these steps. However, much of the ideas Carnicero gives may not be backed up by science. Much of her points are more geared towards speech formulation and gestures. For instance, she said that people who are lying tend to try and convince over convey. She described conveying and answer is short, such as yes or no. Convincing is when
The basic principle behind the physical responses to lying were narrowed down to skin conductance, blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration (Lewis & Cuppari, 2009). In short, psychologists believed that a lie would cause at least one of these things to change, if only for a brief moment. John Larson and Leonarde Keele put these variables all together and devised a machine that would measure and graph all of these things in real-time, aptly named “the polygraph” (Lewis & Cuppari, 2009).
Microaggressions to me are physical, mental, and verbal processes which a person has which does harm either intentionally or not to another. They are the tiny actions, thoughts, and words used in everyday experiences derived from the conscious and subconscious. They often times take the form of sly comments. Some people do it unintentionally just because of their nurture process and education. You cannot put total blame on them because of that. The way to go about it would be to educate that person because we have to give them the benefit of the doubt that they may not know the difference between right and wrong.
It states that “If they folded their arms, or hunched over, or looked away, they were being anxious, and also that anxiety was a hallmark of lying” (Fresh Air). Have you ever been in a social situation that made you anxious? When you talked to people were you lying? Chances are, probably not. The problem with this logic is that the suspect is put in a situation that is supposed to make you as uncomfortable as possible. Of course, the suspect is going to be a little anxious looking. Wouldn’t you be if you were in that
Now, when he looks at people or things, he focuses on unraveling how they work which enables him to discover intricate details that would skip the eyes of a casual onlooker. Understanding the intricacies of micro -mechanics helps you to understand macro mechanics.
Since the beginning of time, people have been looking for ways to distinguish the truth from the lies in people who were suspected of committing crimes. Many techniques were tried over the centuries, many of these techniques stemmed from ridiculous and cruel. Many of these techniques were based on the assumption that a physiological reaction would have occurred when a person was confronted with details specific events. When questioned, the person’s physiological reaction to these events would show symptoms that they were either being honest or deceitful.
In On the Psychology of Self-deception, David Shapiro portrays self-deception as a distinction between what one feels about something, and what one imagines oneself to feel. Shapiro’s purpose of this work is to educate readers on the causes that lead to self-deception. To support his claim, the author uses examples of self-deception in the forms of paradox, speech, loss of reality and coercion. Shapiro introduces paradox as a process that requires monitoring of oneself that is used to imply what must be not known and how to not to know it. The paradox is that the deceiver is also the unknowingly deceived because they knowingly, not know. Additionally, Shapiro explains that self-deception can be detected through speech. The author
Blushing is another factor to consider when someone may be lying. Their emotional gestures are normally off when lying. They do not show as much emotion to anything that is being said, this can be a sign of lying by showing them being on edge. Emotion may also be delayed or may stop suddenly. When someone is faking emotion the movement is limited to their mouth, when someone genuinely smiles you can see the whole face is involved. When you are faking an emotion, you can see that it is forced or more focused just on the mouth and not entire face. This could give away when someone is lying. People tend to nervous laugh when in situations they wish they weren’t, small smirks or laughter throughout the conversation when it should not normally be something to laugh about can show signs of dishonesty.
Thesis- What I found is that, while most people think that they are good at detecting lies, in reality, they are terrible at detecting lies. Today, I’m going to help you learn how to tell if someone is lying by first, showing you how frequently we encounter liars, second, revealing the secret to basic lie detection, and finally, arming you with a trick to trip up any liar.