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date: 22 January 2021

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Lying is a very complex behavior, occurring in different forms and situations. It requires the liar not only to constantly keep the perspective of the to-be-deceived person in mind, but at the same time to remember and activate the truth, prevent the truth from slipping out, and flexibly switch between the lie and the truth. The affective correlates of lying seem to range from guilt and the fear of being discovered to a delight after successfully getting away with a lie. Because of the observed variability in the affective correlates of lying, most recent research on lie detection has started to explore methods that are based on cognitive rather than affective processes. Those methods aim either to measure the increased cognitive load during lying, or to measure lying indirectly by assessing whether a suspect recognizes critical crime-related information.

Keywords: cognitive load, response inhibition, deception detection, lying, truth-telling, polygraphy, emotion, Theory of Mind

Matthias Gamer

Matthias Gamer is a Professor in Experimental Clinical Psychology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Using a variety of approaches ranging from behavioural and psychophysiological to neuroimaging methods, his research is devoted to basic as well pg xviiias applied issues in deception detection. He has published numerous journal articles on deception and co-edited the eBook Basic and Applied Research on Deception and its Detection (2014) for Frontiers.

Kristina Suchotzki

Kristina Suchotzki completed her PhD in 2014 at Ghent University in Belgium and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Würzburg in Germany. Her main research interests include the psychological mechanisms underlying deception and information concealment and how those may be used to improve deception detection methods. She mainly uses different behavioural, autonomic, and neural measures and recently published a meta-analysis on the validity of reaction times as measures of deception.

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