Tell Me Everything That Happened, Tell Me Nothing to Say

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If you tell a simple lie, there's not much work till you go, i don't know and you have nothing to say. We find that liars are often worried that if they are inconsistent, they will be thought to be lying. The thing is, learned, we really, you remember. And what we tend to do when people tell us lies, as i think, we fill in the blanks. It's sort of like comparing a litle photograph of your house with the tree in the front yard and a child's picture of it.

For nearly a century we've been trying to read someone's truthfulness by the way they act. Be it through machines, or our own intuition. The police have tried. The FBI has tried. The CIA has tried. But the fact is… most of their efforts just don't work.

Are we doomed to ignorance? Maybe not.

We talked to forensic psychologist Andy Morgan about the difficult truth regarding the industry around lying.

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