A new study published in the journal Psychological Science indicates that lying is detected better when we rely on initial answers rather than thinking carefully about the matter, that is, when we rely on intuition, according to what was reported in the Daily Mail newspaper. British.
The research suggests that people are only 50% successful in traditional processes, such as avoiding eye contact or stress, to detect lies, while Leanne Ten Brink, from the University of California, Berkeley, says that what sparked their interest in the subconscious is that it may be the site of lie verification. inside the mind.”
So, if our ability to detect lies lies in the subconscious, we will not be able to do it when we put great intellectual effort into it. This could mean that our intuitive decisions depend on what our subconscious mind tells us about what could be false, Ten Brink said.
Tin and the research team conducted an experiment to test the ability of the subconscious mind to detect lies. They asked 72 students to watch video clips of some people who were “suspected” of a fake crime, in which some of them stole $100 from a bookshelf, and others did not do so, but everyone claimed They stole the money.
The results showed that the participants were able to successfully identify the liars by only 43%, and the truthful ones by 48%.
