View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-language-of-lying-noah-zandan We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we've spent much of our history coming up with ways...
========== "Sorry, my phone died." "It's nothing. I'm fine." "These allegations
are completely unfounded." "The company was not aware
of any wrongdoing." "I love you." We hear anywhere
from 10 to 200 lies a day, and we spent much of our history
coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture
devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors,
voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound
electroencephalogram. But although such tools have worked
under certain circumstances, most can be fooled
with enough preparation, and none are considered reliable enough
to even be admissible in court. But, what if the problem
is not with the techniques, but the und...