There's apparently an on-line course you can take to learn to recognize micro-expressions pretty reliably that only takes an hour or so, but once you learn, you can't turn it off. I'm glad someone out there is figuring this stuff out, but I'm also glad it's not me. Knowing what emotions people are hiding but not why they're feeling them or why they're hiding them seems like it would be enormously stressful.
As for being on the other side of that, I don't know, my initial reaction is that of course I have nothing to hide but I'm sure I've got all kinds of stuff that I don't even consciously know about and maybe it's best it stays that way.
Whoa. Numbers quite surprised me.
Just watched Bones. really good to see that some of the stuff that seemed off had an explanation.
you know, I'd watch a show called Hogins and friends in the lab
There's apparently an on-line course you can take to learn to recognize micro-expressions pretty reliably that only takes an hour or so, but once you learn, you can't turn it off. I'm glad someone out there is figuring this stuff out, but I'm also glad it's not me. Knowing what emotions people are hiding but not why they're feeling them or why they're hiding them seems like it would be enormously stressful.
It's like they say. It's not that hard to figure out that someone is lying, but why they are lying is the key.
Exactly. With the average person telling three lies in a ten-minute conversation, all that figuring out why would be exhausting.
now you are making me wonder if I lie without realizing I am lying.
I know I do. I am especially good at pretending I know why something happens. I come to my reason logically, but ith no facts. It is fun. As long as I remember I can't do that at the library.
With the average person telling three lies in a ten-minute conversation
Who are they conversing with? I just don't have those conversations--I must either skew the average, or save my lies up for conversations filled with untruths.
I don't know. I got that statistic off the website you linked to, I think.
Or I was lying.
Or maybe I'm lying now.
Eta: I can't find it, now, so there's no telling where I got it.
now you are making me wonder if I lie without realizing I am lying.
I really enjoy Lie to Me but I'm a little vexed by all the websites that are popping up screeching that they can teach you how to protect yourself from lying liers who lie. The vast majority of the people I work with believe the things they say even when they aren't speaking their truest minds.
The words are so much less important than the underlying, and often complex, reasons for saying them.
