Psychology of Deception

Abstract

Deception is a successful or unsuccessful deliberate attempt, without forewarning, to create in another a belief that the communicator considers to be untrue. This chapter describes how; despite of being an everyday life event, people are generally poor at detecting lies. Several reasons for this inability to detect deceit are given and two techniques that might improve people's lie detection ability, the baseline method, and the indirect lie detection method, are discussed.