Nonverbal behaviour and deceit

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Running head : Nonverbal Behavior and Deceit

NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR AND DECEIT

Nonverbal Behavior and Deceit

Introduction

Nonverbal communication is a category by exclusion as such it is almost impossible to exactly define what it contains . Everybody in their life has to face the issue of dealing with people that try to deceive them . Everybody has to face the challenge of trying to determine what is and is not true . Unfortunately the average person is not very good at this because the average person doesn

't know what to look for However there are still cues that will occasionally give away a lie

Deceptive communication is a rather large phenomenon to attach a single set definition to . Technically most people engage in communication that is deceptive every time they speak with someone else . This is true as most people commonly omit relevant information from their messages to others . However this is intended to help learn to see when someone is telling a lie . This covers the nonverbal cues of the body , the contexts of a lie

This research will tell you to see the things you haven 't been noticing , enabling you to understand communication in a whole new light and giving you a huge advantage in both business and personal interactions and investigation

Nonverbal Behavior and Deception

The Dynamic Nature of Deceptive Verbal communication

Deceptive responding differed from truthful responding depending on the truth-deception sequence and the phase of the interview . The truth-first made it much easier for deceivers to approximate truthful discourse sooner . The existence of significant variability due to time and sequence has important implications for identifying reliable indicators of deception and for research paradigms used to investigate deceptive and truthful discourse (Burgoo , 2006

The Deception Theory of IDT Buller Burgoon (1994 , 1996 , states that IDT is a propositional theory that explicitly considers temporal and process factors in deception . Premised on fundamental principles of interpersonal communication , IDT assumes that interpersonal deception like other forms of interpersonal interaction , is interdependent dynamic , and adaptive . That is , deceivers ' actions are interrelated to receivers ' actions . Deceivers attune to and respond to the behavior of counteractions . As deceptive interactions progress , deceivers take in interlocutors ' feedback regarding their own performance and adjust their communication accordingly (with social skills moderating the adaptation such that more skilled deceivers are better able to adapt and to present a credible performance

IDT posits , and research has confirmed , that deceptive behavior is seen as unexpected , anomalous , and fishy looking ' and evokes suspicion (Bond et al , 1992 Burgoon Buller , 1994

In addition , nonverbal indicators of deception that are identified in meta-analyses of the extant literature (DePaulo et al , 2003 Zuckerman Driver , 1985 ) may be accurate only in depicting the opening seconds or minutes of a deceptive episode but not the later ones interpersonal

However , the nonverbal deceptive displays are changeable over the course of a conversation or interview (e .g , Buller Aune , 1987 Buller Strzyzewski Comstock , 1991 Burgoon Buller , 1994 , with deceivers adapting their...