We're told to "trust our gut," and to look for shifty eyes or nervous fidgeting. Detectives in movies and TV shows spot liars through micro-expressions. Yet across hundreds of experiments, the average rate of accurate lie-truth discrimination is 54% (Bond & DePaulo, 2006). In fact, computers often outperform judges on deciding who will skip bail, and seasoned police officers who are most confident in their "lie-detecting" abilities are often the least accurate (Gladwell, 2019).
Trust is our basic response to people and the things they tell us (Grice, 1975; Schwarz & Jalbert, 2020). If someone tells us something, we tend to believe they are doing their best to tell us the truth. If we walk into a store, we trust the prices listed are what we'll pay. We trust that the item inside the box is what's listed on the outside of the box.
I used to play a lot of Werewolf, back when I had roommates, and I flatter myself that I got pretty good at navigating the many layers of deception and manipulation involved. The werewolves lie, but villagers also sometimes lie-to try to catch someone else in a lie. People change their stories halfway through the game. They accuse and cast aspersions; they sow chaos; they plant seeds of doubt. The game often devolves into shouting.
I found out that someone within a friend group completely faked being a student at a relatively prestigious university in the area. Nobody had a clue. He basically came and hung out with people and pretended that he also attended classes. He had actually dropped out of school years ago. He'd even pretended that he graduated and had attended the ceremony.
Coming into this episode, I hoped that the two-perspective concept, having been duly established in the pilot, would now settle into successive, rather than parallel, timelines. Unfortunately, we are fated to see two versions of the same events every time. At least the pace picks up a bit: The second half of this episode, told through Laura's perspective, moves significantly beyond where we left off in Cherry's.
It shows how many people fail to grasp the very basic reality that this is a game show You may have heard of The Traitors Ireland. You may well be one of the 600,000-odd people who tuned in to the first episode on RTÉ One and have been glued ever since.
Rogers says it was entirely Patterson's plan that her two children would not be present at the lunch. She made sure the children were away at McDonald's at the cinema by the time the lunch guests were arriving.
Mistress Isabelle Brooks stated in a recent interview that fans need to 'stop crucifying' her for her actions on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10, emphasizing her role in creating engaging television.
His tearful public appeals of "Tina come home, my arms are open" proved chillingly cynical as he spun an ever-widening tissue of lies to try to save himself.
