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Lie detection is an assessment of a verbal statement with the goal to reveal a possible intentional deceit. Lie detection may refer to a cognitive process of detecting deception by evaluating message content as well as non-verbal cues. People are generally not as good at detecting lies as they think they are. The average person can only detect lying with chance accuracy, and experts, including law enforcement, are not siginificantly better at it. There are a few reasons as to why we aren't very good at lie detection. Most people are decent liars and we tend to be overconfident in our ability to detect lies and the cues that someone is lying are usually very subtle and we are likely to look in the wrong place. The average person also does not expect others to lie to them, so we instinctively believe people are being truthful towards us.
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