investigators | business fraud | criminal defenseNLP eye movement & lie detecting: Everything you know is wrong
Oct.14.2016
A surefire way to detect a liar is to watch the eyes move, right? You have seen this claim in books, movies, cable TV shows, blogs, etc. When someone looks up and to the left , they are accessing a visual memory. Lee Child even has Jack Reacher doing this in one of his books.
One problem: research shows it doesn't work. Even the FBI has come around to this way of thinking.
“Twenty-three out of 24 peer-reviewed studies published in scientific journals reporting ex-periments on eye behavior as an indicator of lying have rejected this hypothesis.”
One problem: research shows it doesn't work. Even the FBI has come around to this way of thinking.
“Twenty-three out of 24 peer-reviewed studies published in scientific journals reporting ex-periments on eye behavior as an indicator of lying have rejected this hypothesis.”