How to Tell If Someone Is Lying...ish (Microexpressions Won't)

Spotting lying, we are told is just Somebody freeze framed a grieving parent's face, announced "duping delight" to four million followers, and the comment section returned a verdict before the police did. The lie detection science says that person was running on a coin flip with a ring light. Ben Cardall and former senior detective Bob Pointer take the microexpressions truth apart, then rebuild what the research says about how to tell if someone is lying without guessing.

In this episode:
- Why watching Lie to Me made viewers worse at recognising honest people
- The 2 percent problem: how rarely microexpressions appear, and why they show up on truth tellers too
- What the research on murderers' televised pleas found, and why it cannot convict anyone from one clip
- The 54 percent wall: 24,483 judges, and why cops, judges and psychiatrists score like students
- The 900 million dollar airport programme that never caught a threat
- What Ekman got right, including the Othello error most of his fans have never heard of
- How to tell if someone is lying with methods that move accuracy: Strategic Use of Evidence, verifiable detail and cognitive load

If you have ever been certain about a face, watch this before you decide you know how to tell if someone is lying.

Tags: how to tell if someone is lying, lie detection science, microexpressions truth, microexpressions, Paul Ekman, deception detection, true crime analysis, body language myths, Aldert Vrij, strategic use of evidence, investigative interviewing, Deductionist Podcast