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Behavior
Study results from University of Portsmouth in the area of behavior published
November 8th, 2008
"With the exclusion of some specific circumstances, police officers typically pay more attention to nonverbal behavior than verbal behavior when they attempt to detect deceit. One of the reasons for this is that they believe that suspects are less able to control their nonverbal than verbal behavior and, consequently, nonverbal cues to deception are more likely to leak through," investigators in Portsmouth, the United Kingdom report. "The author states that this assumption is not necessarily valid; deception research has revealed that many verbal cues are more diagnostic cues to deceit than nonverbal cues. Paying attention to nonverbal cues results in being less...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-11-08)
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