How to identify a liar

A study published in the journal Frontier Psychology on Human Psychology, based on a study by Norbert Wiener, showed how one can identify someone who is lying to him or her by using mathematics.

 

This study highlights how human beings change their mind in the event of a choice between different things, a change in mind that can be caused by a small amount of information, a person's pre-decision analysis, and how it determines a person's behavior.

 

A person's mental state is related to the information he or she has before making a decision. When one has enough information one can easily make the choice. For example, before buying something, one first seeks out information and then tries to ask the user and others which gives him or her enough information to make the right decision.

 

This was echoed by mathematician Thomas Bayes, who says that a person who thinks well first weighs a lot of options before making a decision.

 

Bayes argues that all a person's choices and thoughts are based on what he or she does not know.

 

If one does not have enough information one may not make a decision before knowing the information, this is where one thinks carefully because one must first know exactly what he chooses.

 

When a person has something to think about, it is difficult for him or her to understand it.

 

So this method can also be used by someone to know you are lying or telling the truth.

 

When a person has a way of thinking about something or a way of seeing something, and then he or she is given real information, he or she can gradually change the way he or she thinks, leaving the feeling that he or she is wrong and comes to accept the new information.

 

So when someone is lying it doesn’t happen. When a person is being given true information and continues to refuse, stating that what he or she is saying or thinking is true, this study has often shown that he or she is lying.

 

When this person is given the truth and does not believe it, but chooses to accept other lies, it is a sign that he is lying. According to Bayes, a liar is quick to find other lies.

 

This person is lying as if he wants to convince people that what he is saying is true and he wants to make it clear to those who do not have enough information.

 

The researchers said that it was impossible to read in one's mind to know everything he thought, but that such behavior is not the behavior of a person who is telling the truth.

 

On the other hand, when a person is lying and is given different information about what he or she is saying and refusing to give up, the person in this study claims to be a liar. So this approach can be a tool for analyzing and combating especially the negative effects of false information.

Writer: Christian Mugisha

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