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- Poker players might call it the “tell” — it’s the idea that your body language tells your questioners if the words you’re saying are actually true or false. These subjects in a University of Chicago study on body language and lying were asked several general questions — and then told off camera to lie or tell the truth when answering. Can you tell truth from falsehood?
I'm awful, I thought everybody was lying. Then when I kept guessing wrong I kept with tthe same answer because I figured in the end I'd average out. :( 3/10. I refused to believe the penultimate/poetry guy was lying because what he said appealed to my beliefs. Another danger - flattering ourselves. (Commentary: if you don't want to change your students' approach to answering, don't display their score as they go - or whether they got their answer right or wrong.)