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The Skeptics Guide #814 - Feb 13 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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You Know When Someone's Lying?

Evolutionary psychologist Paul Ekman is the first researcher to do a large scale study about how changes to his subjects, facial expressions and body movements reflect if they're telling the truth or if they're lying. He believes that there are universal facial expressions for all of the basic emotions, you know, like fear, anger, sadness, disgust, surprise, enjoyment,. Nothing really complicated, just the ones that basically all humans feel and that we all can easily identify. And when someone's trying to fake emotion, often they don't happen that often so this could be an untrained eye going unnoticed. In one of his laboratory experiments he claims that lies can tell more accurately than people who have been

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