Inscription written on the person who lies

If you want to know if someone is telling the truth or lying, you should not analyze his or her body language, eye movements or words. Scientists at the University of Haifa (Israel) claim they have found a way to identify people who lie through written words.

Daily Mail said psychologists from Haifa University (Israel) asked 34 volunteers to write two short paragraphs. A passage about memory is real, while the other is a fictional event. Volunteers writing with electronic pens have the function of broadcasting. The pen is very sensitive to the pressure of the hand. The paper is placed on the electronic board so that the research team can monitor and analyze the volunteer's writing style.

' In the passage about the volunteer's imaginary event, we found that the force of the stroke, the length of the strokes and the height of the letter were much larger than that of the event ,' the team concluded. in the paper they published in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology.

People who lie lie stronger than people who tell the truth and their handwriting is longer.(Photo: Daily Mail)

Psychologists believe that lying acts make human characters change, because when lying to the brain requires more work to create events. That stressful activity affects the writing action .

Professor Richard Wiseman, an expert at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), also acknowledged that the liar always pressed the pen harder and created longer strokes than the real one. But he thinks the Haifa University test should be conducted on a large scale to increase accuracy.

' We all know people are more hesitant when they lie. If you write the word in a hesitant mood, of course you will press harder, take the pen farther than usual , 'he told the Daily Mail.

Wiseman points out that current lie detectors are ' unreliable ' in writing. In addition to the criminal field, writing testing techniques can also help in many other things. For example, HR professionals can learn word checking techniques to evaluate candidates for jobs, insurance employees can base on writing to assess the honesty of a contract buyer. insurance or compensation.

Of course, most people cannot detect differences in words written with the naked eye. But we can recognize it if we use a computer and an electronic board.