The Problems With Telling When Someone Is Lying

There's been a lot more focus on working in the area of police interviewing and interrogation, as listeners might recall. And I think there's just been a continued focus in the UK and Europe on better questioning to bring out more detail and identify inconsistencies. There were lots of very micro-level cues, but that would be very, very difficult to actually use in an alive face-to-face or indeed virtual interview as it's happening. You know when someone's lying because you know them so well, and you know their context. People will often say that they can tell when their partner's lying. We'll get a problem.