This exercise allows students to experience the difference between cues for perceived and actual deception. Students viewed classmates telling the truth and lying. Students' judgments indicated that deception detection was accurate less than 50% of the time. This discovery allowed for an in-depth discussion of deception, detection, and nonverbal communication.
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