Lie 2 Me
How well can you lie? 2018
Denis O'Hora, Nick Duran, Sam Redfern & Arkady Zgonnikov (IE, US & RU)
Many people wonder about behavioural 'tells' in poker and other bluffing games. One of the reasons that deceptive games are fun is that humans are sometimes hard to deceive. Deliberate lying is harder than telling the truth, since we cannot rely simply on memory and report what happened; instead, we use memory to remember what was true, but then operate on that memory to replace that information with different but plausible details. This exhibit allows visitors to try out an experiment and learn about deception.
BIO
The team behind Lie 2 Me includes experimental psychologists, a game designer and a physicist.
Denis O'Hora (NUI Galway) and Nick Duran (Arizona State University) are experimental psychologists who specialise in tracking movement during cognition. Nick's research has shown that the extra cognitive effort required in lying affects how people move when making false choices. Denis investigates how our hands and eyes move and coordinate when making decisions. Their work has the potential to inform the scientific understanding of how people lie.
To make the experiment a reality, they worked with game designer Sam Redfern (NUI Galway). Sam is interested in how games can help us understand people.
Finally, the team uses complex analyses of people's movement to distinguish deceptive movement from truthful movement. A physicist, Arkady Zgonnikov (University of Aizu, Japan) helps with these analyses.
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