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Very interesting. As a criminal defence solicitor I would say that admissions of guilt (confessions)mainly occur due to the strength of evidence gathered by investigators. There are also many occasions where investigators are on a bit of a 'fishing trip'.

Great piece - we should do more of this sort of thing! Blogger was down all night (or maybe it was my internet) ... I've been dying to leave a comment. Was the talk purely on Deception or are you keeping some juicy things to yourself?

Very useful, indeed. Thank you. Regarding serendipity and inspiration, according to an interesting article in the New Scientist, our ability to absorb tangential information into our own ideas is at the heart of creativity. This would seem a perfect example. Good luck with the To-do lists.

Very interesting Teri - though lord knows what this says about my Beloved - if I ask him something and he replies quickly I know he hasn't listened to the question - usually he takes at least 5 seconds to reply - he likes to think through what he's saying. It's very disturbing, even after 25 years together I still want to say @well? Come on! Answer...'

I think gathered evidence eliciting confessions fits into Elisabeth's category of knowledge claims that challenge a line of deception? She did stress confessions were rare.

She did read some interesting bits of transcripts, but I can&#39;t use the touch screen fast enough to get that down! <br />Also there were lab experiments done where they did mean things to students to attempt to elicit confessions or deception: all for a fiver and a biscuit. <br />I can remember volunteering to be a psychology project guinea pig for similar incentives in Canada, many years ago!

I think that is very true: I can think of occasions where something I&#39;ve heard before but paid scant attention to seems to come up again at just the right time for a light-bulb moment!

LOL. Though one of the things she also said that these indicators have to be judged in context of the overall interaction. So if that is usual for him then it isn&#39;t an indicator of deception :O)

Makes a change from being influenced by TV and cinema ... so many books reflect the unreality of media rather than this sort of real life.

We should ALL take our time answering questions. Lord knows ...

Thanks for the post, Teri, but how do we know <b>you&#39;re</b> telling the truth? Eh?<br /><br />;-)

You don&#39;t!!<br />A totally unrelated comment...she also said sociopaths don&#39;t follow the rules, as you might expect

Really interesting post, Teri! I am now quite convinced that just about everyone I know lies! Hmmm...

er ... er ... that&#39;s ... not ... true ...

Living in Italy,I can honestly say there are NO rules of conversation. A bunch of Italians would send a police investigation haywire. I love K.Evans comment. My husband is exactly the same complete with me finger-tapping while I wait for an answer. I could get through the dishes and a round of washing by the time he makes up his mind.

It would be interesting to go along to one of Elisabeth&#39;s talks. I don&#39;t have time to read the book at the moment. It does seem as if Elisabeth is concentrating on a narrow academic area and generalising quite widely. For instance, the views on lying would never be admissible as evidence.

If there was any generalizing going on, it was all by me :O)<br />And there was certainly no suggestions of admissibility on these types of indicators