To spot a liar, ignore everything except the level of detail in a person’s story, according to new researc from the University of Amsterdam that said this one simple test, can distinguish between truth and lies with nearly 80% accuracy.
If a person provides detailed descriptions of who, what, when, how, and why, they are most likely telling the truth. If they gloss over these details, they are most likely lying.
The researchers in this study proposed that simplicity is key to detecting deception and suggested dropping cues rather than adding them.
In a series of nine studies involving 1,445 participants, the researchers presented them with written and video accounts of a student’s activities on campus, some of which were true and some of which were false.
Participants who relied on intuition or used multiple factors to make their decisions performed no better than random chance.
However, those who focused solely on the level of detail in the accounts were able to accurately determine whether the statements were true or false with 59-79% accuracy.
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