Perceiving Others

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This paper examines how psychological research has done a great deal of work in the area of understanding. It discusses how several studies of deception and its detection have examined a number of important issues such as accuracy of deception judgements, cues that give deceivers away, cues that people think give deceivers away and whether some people are better at identifying deception. It proposes a study to examine the significance of judgemental accuracy and its correlation with behavioural aspects of indicating deception.

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"Three tests and one task were administered among 376 of Macquarie University Introductory Psychology students to determine whether, on average, individuals are poor at detecting deceit. Research also intended to indicate whether there is an association between behavioural analysis ability and accuracy of deception judgements. Each participant completed computerized emotion-comparison task, "Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test", self-report chosen to reflect ability in
social and emotional information processing and, finally, a card-playing task to assess student's ability to deceive and to detect deceit. Results indicated that students? average accuracy at detecting deception is just slightly above the chance and established that indeed there is a correlation between behavioural aspects of indicating deception and the accuracy of judgements."

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