Lying is an important human capacity and a necessary, frequently deployed skill for greasing the rails of social commerce. The emergence of lying, a complex cognitive operation, represents a major ...

Everybody Lies, a new professional nonfiction release by K Enterprises, LLC Publications Founder Stephen John Komorek, is now ...

Most people lie occasionally. The lies are often trivial and essentially inconsequential – such as pretending to like a tasteless gift. But in other contexts, deception is more serious and can have ...

Sterling: "You can just tell." Charlie: "Just that something is off. That's the best way to describe it, I can just tell." Sterling: "—when anyone is lying, 100 percent of the time?" In the first ...

Scientists in Israel have leveraged commercially available sensors to develop an advanced lie-detection system they say outperforms any other known method. The technology relies on electrodes attached ...

Although people lie a lot, they typically refrain from accusing others of lying because of social norms around making false accusations and being polite. But artificial intelligence (AI) could soon ...

One of the key challenges of generative artificial intelligence is that it becomes even more of a black box when it's hosted in the cloud by companies such as OpenAI, where the AI's functioning cannot ...

A legal challenge was heard today in Europe’s Court of Justice in relation to a controversial EU-funded research project using artificial intelligence for facial “lie detection” with the aim of ...

For months in the spring of 1921, a women’s-only private dorm at the University of California, Berkeley was rocked by a crime wave. College Hall, located on the northeastern corner of campus, where ...

Leonarde and Katherine Keeler pose with the Keeler Polygraph machine, 1935. Courtesy Everett Collection. This article is the first in a series called A Thousand Words, where we feature an interesting ...