Abstract

PORTELLA, Mônica  and  CLARK, Cynthia. Non-verbal clues of lies: : learned or natural?. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2006, vol.6, n.2, pp. 6-20. ISSN 1808-4281.

Lies could be uncovered by facts and/or by clues in lier behavior, such as non-verbal behavior. This study objective is to verify if: 1) blindess non-verbal behaviour during deceit defer of liying non-verbal behavior of normal sight. 2) training inprove the hability to identify deception non- verbal clues. In this study blind and normal sight people were video taped when they were lying and telling the true about a newspaper article. Before that psychology students (judges) tried to identify if people who were video taped were lying or telling the true. First the judges need to identify (without training) if people (blind or normal sight) at the video tape were lying or telling the true, after that the judges received trainment about non verbal clues of deceit. After trainament they need to identify again when people (blind or normal sight) were lying or telling the true. Acording to the results blind non-verbal behavior during deception is different. Trainment improve judgment hability to detect deceit.

Keywords : Non-verbal behaviour; Deceit; Lies; Emotion and blind.

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