...really you were at the mall buying her a birthday present for her birthday that weekend. A negative example of lying would be a girlfriend cheating on her boyfriend, and lying about what she was doing instead. Then you have situations where you lie and agree with someone just to keep a conversation going. You also have compulsive liars who feel the need to lie about everything they do and talk about. Sometimes these people get so convinced on what they are lying about themselves, that they don’t even know how much they do it or when they do it. Both men and women lie in approximately a fifth of their social exchanges lasting 10 or more minutes; over the course of a week they deceive about 30 percent of those with whom they interact one-on-one. (Phycology Today, 1997.) Now if you’re in a criminal situation and they only have your feedback to go off of, they need to test whether or not you’re lying. In order to do this, they need to use a polygraph or brain scanner. These lie detecting technologies aren’t 100% effective. My question is if they will ever be improved or 100% accurate. While looking up how we benefit ourselves with the lie detection technologies we use today, I came across articles with a similar outlook and proposal. In the research, I was able to see all the experiments done from college students around the world for up to 40 years that led to what devices we use today. Right after reviewing this I was able to encounter a problem that would help me be a step closer for...
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...Methods of Lie Detection Samuel Medina Housatonic Community College Abstract This research paper will cover a few different aspects of Lie Detection. Through the knowledge gathered from 5 journal articles the reader will learn of different methods of lie detection as well as some real life applications and the possibilities of lie detection in the near future. The areas that the 5 journal articles touch upon are the Cognitive load approach, the use of the polygraph and its controversies, the behavioral differences when using a person’s first or second language, the use of fMRI and the potential future of fMRI technology and last but not least some of the application of lie detection in our world today and potential for even more efficient and less intrusive methods of lie detection. Methods of Lie Detection In today’s society technology is at the fore-front of almost every aspect of life. In one particular area technology has created a new path of discovery for society to explore. Lie detection is a subject widely used in different ways throughout law enforcement and is becoming implemented in many different ways in our society today. Lie detection is being used in court rooms all over the world to solidify verdicts proved in the court rooms. There are a few methods of lie detection used in and outside of the court rooms but not all are allowed in the court rooms because of certain controversies. Of course with every...
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...“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.” ( Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter). This paper will talk about whether honesty is always the best policy. Honesty is always the best policy unless in certain situations like when someone else's feelings are at stake, personal protection, and self preservation. “ I have three children - how may I teach them to walk...
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...I.- Why do people lie? Everybody lies. It may only be “white” lies, but everyone tells lies or “omits the truth” sometimes. We start lying at around age 4 to 5 when children gain an awareness of the use and power of language. This first lying is not malicious, but rather to find out, or test, what can manipulated in a child’s environment. Eventually children begin to use lying to get out of trouble or get something they want. White lies, those concocted to protect someone’s feelings, are not a big deal at all. The person, however, who seems to feel compelled to lie about both the small and large stuff has a problem. We often call these folks pathological liars (which is a description, not a diagnosis). They lie to protect themselves, look good, gain financially or socially and avoid punishment. Quite often the person who has been deceived knows that this type of liar has to a certain extent deluded him or herself and is therefore to be somewhat pitied.A much more troubling group is those who lie a lot — and knowingly — for personal gain. These people may have a diagnosis called antisocial personality disorder, also known as being a sociopath, and often get into scrapes with the law. Lying often gets worse with the passage of time. When you get away with a lie it often impels you to continue your deceptions. Also, liars often find themselves perpetrating more untruths to cover themselves. We hold different people to different standards when it comes to telling the truth. We expect...
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...Publication Name: Current Research In Social Psychology Date: 10 June 2009 Title of Article: Indirect Detection Of Deception: Looking For Change. 1. What is the target population of this study? * I think that the target population is everyone. I mean obviously some people (lawyers, judges, juries, teachers, parents, etc.) would benefit more from this study than others, but I still believe that everyone can benefit from this study. 2. Who are the subjects? * “Participants were 104 (53males, 51 females) undergraduate students at a small coeducational university in the southern United States” (Hart pg. 5). They all were picked from psychology classes and each participant was given extra credit for doing this. Their socioeconomic background, ethnic background and geographical locations were not included in the information. I have no clue why they weren’t included; maybe they felt it didn’t matter. I think not knowing much about their background has a huge effect on the study. Depending on how they grew up (morals, values, etc.), what kind of family they had, all of that could depend on their lying ability or even if they lie. 3. Are the subject’s representatives of the target population? Why or why not? * No. I believe no because all they asked are students. More people in the world lie or even would benefit from this study rather than just students. They didn’t go to a court house or a PTA meeting or anything. I’m not sure why they didn’t choose to do it...
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...Critical Thinking Worksheet Chose one of the following scenarios: • You are a member of a group working on a class project. The group members are enthusiastic about the project and arrange a meeting time to begin planning. You forget to mark your calendar and miss the meeting. The group posts a summary of the meeting with assignments and deadlines for the project. You apologize to the group and agree to complete the topic research for the project. You realize you have a paper due in another course on the same day your research is due and concentrate most of your time on your individual assignment. The paper takes longer than you thought, and you are unable to conduct research for the group project by the deadline. You feel bad about this and do not respond to inquiries from group members. You post a message to the group explaining you are having computer problems. The group expresses their empathy and proceeds without you, completing and submitting the project with your name included. • A position opens in your department at work. You recommend to a coworker and friend in another department that she should apply. You previously consulted with this person on small projects, and she appears knowledgeable and responsible. In fact, you became friends through these work contacts. Your friend appreciates your recommendation and arranges a meeting to ask you more details about the work done by your department. The meeting is productive, and your friend takes notes to help with...
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...Group 1 Module In this week’s readings the author explains the nine different characteristics of research in Chapter one. The nine different characteristics includes a clear purpose, detail, a plan, ethical standards, limitations, analysis for the decision maker’s needs, findings, conclusion, and reflection on the experience (Cooper & Schindler, 2014). The reader will learn of a workplace and a biblical example of applying the characteristics of research by using the what a manager should look for in research that is found in the text in this week’s readings. The workplace that the reader will learn about is Paoletta Counseling Services. The problem is that a client is having problems with the insurance company covering the therapy sessions. The manager is counting on her administrative assistant to research and find out why the insurance is not covering the therapy session and to report the findings back to the manager. The manager would also like the administrative assistant to come up with a plan to use to make sure this does not happen again with other clients because when the client is having issues with their insurance then the agency does not get pay, which causes the agency to lose money. The agency is a privately own agency so they cannot afford to lose money. Clear Purpose Exodus 9:16 says, “But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth” (Life Application Study Bible, NIV)....
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...Argumentative Essay Is global climate change man made? Some would argue that climate changes are just stages of the Earth or doesn’t exist at all. Most would say that with all the people in the world and all the things that they do to Mother Nature that climate change is a man-made problem. In this essay, I’m going to explain both sides of the argument and give some facts about why they think that. First off, I think that climate change is man-made and it is from careless people on the earth that don’t think about the effects of things they do in the long run. We all leave some sort of carbon footprint. With population growing and getting out of control most people don’t realize a lot of the things they do are harmful to the planet. With more people, there is a need for more places to stay. People need homes and land so one of the major factors in climate change is deforestation. Another factor is the burning of fossil fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal. These energy resources are burned for electricity or refined to be used as heating or transportation usages. “Over the past 20 years, nearly three-fourths of human-caused emissions came from the burning of fossil fuels.” These things all have to do with letting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is one of the major reasons of temperatures getting warmer. “Humans have increased atmospheric CO2 concentration by a third since the Industrial Revolution began.” Another factor in climate change is the release...
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...prohibiting homosexuals from joining the armed forces. There can be many benefits if we let gays in our ranks. It was Damien’s response that reminded me how ignorant people can be. I immediately insisted for a good explanation for his remark, but he wasn’t able to produce one. “If I’m in a war zone, I want somebody watching my back for my protection. I don’t want them watching me out of sheer bliss.” That was the explanation he gave me as he walked away with the look of annoyance on his face. I wondered, was he annoyed because he realized he sounded like a buffoon, or maybe my facial expressions revealed my disgust towards him. Homosexuals are human beings, and I am a strong believer that they should have the right to defend our country as long as they meet physical and ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery) requirements. There aren’t many people who are willing to put on our nation’s uniform especially when America is at war; it takes a special person to accept that responsibility. One of the biggest problems the military face is getting people to re-enlist for certain career fields. Since the DADT (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell) policy went into effect in 1993, more than 13,000 service members have been discharged to date (Zavis para 10). That average out to be around 794 members each year. The people who are discharged...
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...Introduction: Current Scenario 100 Million Households worldwide own at least one connected TV. 50 % of the world’s population own smart phones, 19% own tablets and almost 80% multitask on these devices while watching TV. And this is just the nascent stage. By 2016, there will be 10 Billion mobile connected devices, almost exceeding the global population of 7.3 billion people. With such numbers in play, it is of supreme importance to reach out to this category of digitalized people. The time spent on digital media like smartphones, Tablets, Kindles, PlayStations, etc. has increased tremendously. According to our research, almost 56% of people are always connected through the different digital devices they use. With businesses looking for growth in stagnant economies their gaze turns to digital not just in their home markets, which are becoming more mature and saturated, but they see digital as the obvious route to international expansion and growth. Brand building and differentiation are the top reasons for digital marketing, followed by customer communication and assessment of customer satisfaction of a product, according to a survey of 250 firms with over $500-million in annual revenue by Gartner. Media consumption has evolved due to increased internet access, the narrowing of the age gap in usage across platforms, and the way geography influences media orientation. By understanding that these seismic shifts reflect an evolving balance of cross -platform media usage, marketers...
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...experiment is to figure out whether or not lying affects heart rate. There has been research conducted on the same problem in the past. In fact, polygraphs, more commonly known as lie detectors, have existed for quite some time. The idea for a polygraph was brought about by Cesare Lombroso in the year 1895. He was an Italian psychiatrist who believed he could use factors such as blood pressure, heart rate, and physical behaviors to determine whether or not the test subject was lying. However, back then his theory was quickly shoved to the side and dismissed along with his other theory of identifying criminals using the shape of their skull. At the beginning of the 1900’s a scientist by the name of William Marston decided to try and refine the design of the polygraph. Around the years of 1917 and 1923, William Marston had made a working lie detector. He stated that he could correctly deduce whether or not the subject was lying, with 95% accuracy (White 2001)....
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...Week 7: Case Studies Research Michael Abernathy 11/24/15 AMBA 610 The Facts The circumstances in the case of Stella Lieback v McDonald’s Restaurant consist of a hot coffee burn incident. Stella Lieback a 79- year old woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico visited a drive-through McDonalds. The incident took place on February 27, 1992 as a passenger in her grandsons ’89 ford probe, a vehicle with no cup holders. The case of Roy L. Pearson V Chung better known as the “pants lawsuit” which was a civil case filed in ‘2005. Pearson sued a D.C. dry cleaning establishment by the name of Custom Cleaners, for over $67 million for the loss of a pair of pants. The facts in the case state that the plaintiff left a pair of gray pants that probably could be extricated by a trio of belt loops on both sides of the front waist band. It appears there was a delay in providing the clothing due to plaintiff stating that the pants returned to him weren’t those submitted for service. As a result of the dispute the recourse taken by Custom Cleaners was to provide records and tags with proper documentation belonging to Pearson to resolve the issue at hand. Monetary play of $1,000.00 was the move Pearson made to Mr. Chung in order to rectify the dispute with the cleaners. This led to a refusal by the cleaner owner and Pearson filing a suit in the District of Columbia’s Superior Court. The Issues Presented The issues identified in case are third -degree medical burns from the coffee...
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...demonstrate their feelings through facial expressions. There are many different kinds of emotions that every human being experiences during certain situations. Some emotions would be anger, sadness, fear, happiness, love, surprise, anxiety, amongst many others. Facial expressions make it very simple to be able to notice what kind of emotion the individual is going through. Babies are unable to communicate by speech or bodily gestures when they are born or in their first years of life, therefore it is very important for people to be able to associate the baby’s facial expression to their emotion. When a baby is sad they will make a certain facial expression letting the parents know something is wrong. Same goes if the baby was in pain, hungry, or tired. Because kids and adults are able to speak and communicate both through speech and body language, it might make it seem as if facial expressions were no longer needed to know how someone is feeling, but in research it is still very important. For example, a doctor would be able to tell if his patient is in pain or afraid even if they do not want to let the doctor know something is wrong just by the patient’s facial expression. Social workers understand that facial expression is very important when dealing with kids who have gone to live with new parents. For example, if the child was put in a home where he is being mistreated or maybe the kids’ parents are hurting their child, that child might be afraid to let the social worker know...
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... BACKGOUND: In the last few years there has been a lot of news coverage of convicted people being found innocent after serving years in prison for crimes they did not commit. It can take several years and many appeals for the false confessor to have their case heard in the court system; if at all. Courts seem to have the tendency to accept the confession at face value and are reluctant to question it. I believe this happens because “law enforcement” took the confession and judges tend to believe that all rules were followed by police. I believe that if the prosecution is going to use a confession in their case, and as one of their strongest pieces of “evidence”, a hearing should be set to decide on the validity of the confession. Even when defense attorneys file motions to have them thrown out due to allegations of coercion, the courts deny the motion almost instantly, which leads to a wrongful conviction. This is the very reason new laws, and guidelines need to be implemented in regards to questioning and interrogating a suspect by police, in order to get a confession. OBJECTIVE: My intention is to show that with stricter laws and guidelines for questioning and interrogating suspects, the amount of false confessions would drop considerably, and in turn the wrongful conviction rate would drop as well. Through research of actual cases, law journals, false confession experts’ research, and the current laws, I intend to show that there is cause for better regulations. With...
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...trust us, why should we trust them? Another aspect of this broken relationship is a vague one- the government withholds too much information from its citizens. As Americans, the people...
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