PSYC 100 Chapter Notes -Voice Stress Analysis, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Lie Detection

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Natasha Ghosh

Document Summary

Our research is based on lies, their types and old and modern methods of detecting them. First, lie is an intentionally false statement, and in order to cheat others or making our own profits. People often use to lie at various situations like hiding their faults in offices or schools, to cheat someone, to make easy money etc. There are rare cases in which lies are justifiable or unintentional. For example, lies made when someone do not have enough information about that thing or lies made for sake of others. Mostly, lies create a lot of problem and we need to find to truth in cases like when a truth can save lives of many people. The problem arise that how to know that person is lying or speaking truth. To find the truth, many methods were invented for detecting lies by focusing on blood pressure or muscle movements etc.