A group called the Global Deception Research Team recently published a report called A World of Lies. It appears in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
The team is big. It has 91 members, spread all around the world. Their stated goal: “studying stereotypes about liars”.
They ask someone, “How can you tell when people are lying?”, then follow this up with 10 simple questions about liars. Here are the questions…
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.