New Technology For Catching Liars (LETS start with Media and Sentate,Congress)

Associated Press ^ | June 21, 2002, | By CHRISTOPHER NEWTON

[weikel]

Good for me I almost never lie.

[ozzymandus]

I triple dog dare little danny rather to read the news hooked up to one of these.

[SpaceBar]

The article failed to mention the dreaded electic nipple clips.

[Zon]

First, the liar must hear the question and process it. Almost by instinct, a liar will first think of the true answer before devising or speaking an already devised false answer.

All that thinking adds up to a lot of electrical signals shooting back and forth. Langleben says the extra thought makes some sections of the brain light up like a bulb when viewed with an MRI.

More than fifty percent of the time when asked a question my thought process goes in many directions as well as retrieving the answer. For example, boarder guards are trained to detect eye movements that are pretty reliable in differentiating if a person is telling the truth or making something up. The procedure is simple. So when asked a question at the boarder as well as retrieving the answer I'll be thinking of the boarder guard doing the eye-consistence procedure.

[DB]

That would make my voice quiver...

[Morgan's Raider]

The real-challenge would be making these devices democrat-proof...

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

They use Clinton's "I never had sex with that woman" speech to calibrate the equipment.

[another cricket]

First, the liar must hear the question and process it. Almost by instinct, a liar will first think of the true answer before devising or speaking an already devised false answer.
All that thinking adds up to a lot of electrical signals shooting back and forth. Langleben says the extra thought makes some sections of the brain light up like a bulb when viewed with an MRI.

Sounds fairly simple to beat. Just always think of a lie before answering even if the answer is the truth. Everything would then read as a lie. I also wonder if the sarcastic would have an advantage here as they generally do come up with a smart answer before answering a question even if it is never voiced.

a.cricket

[bvw]

I have mentioned this before regarding lie-detector screenings for employees in general. What such do is guarantee that pathological liars will be found at much higher percentage than usual in the organization, indeed, dur to soical dynamics, that they will come to run the organization, that the organization will itself become pathlogical and not only easy to lie, but ourright preferring lies to any truth, no matter how inconsequential.

Pathological liars can pass these tests. These tests rely a a normal sense of shame that shame prevents a lie from being completely hidden. But pathological liars have no shame about lies, in fact lies are more comfortable to them.

[WakeUpChristian]

Searching for the truth

[Zon]

Sounds fairly simple to beat.

It assumes people are drone-like in their thinking -- always retrieving the truth and stating it before having any additional thoughts. Their dumbing-down indoctrination hasn't been that effective and never will be.

I think the author of the article has too much unproductive time on his hands.

[Zon]

These tests rely a a normal sense of shame that shame prevents a lie from being completely hidden. But pathological liars have no shame about lies, in fact lies are more comfortable to them.

Most people can lie without the normal shame attached. For example, looking down the barrel of a gun and being asked a question and depending on the answer the person holding the gun says he'll pull the trigger, the victim lies without shame. Once learned it can be used in situations where a person would expect shame to be attached.

[KrisKrinkle]

All that thinking adds up to a lot of electrical signals shooting back and forth. Langleben says the extra thought makes some sections of the brain light up like a bulb when viewed with an MRI.

Sounds like you get scored against if you make the effort to think over your answer to be sure it's truthful.

[holyscroller]

"Even for the smoothest-talker, lying is tough work for the brain."

If they ever plugged Willie into it, he'd put that machine in orbit.

[WakeUpChristian]

[Tourist Guy]

>>>Good for me I almost never lie.<<<

Is that the truth, almost the truth, a lie, or almost a lie????

=)

[eFudd]

I wonder what would happen if C-Span used this on their congressional broadcasts?

[weikel]

The truth if I said never then that would be a lie.