In a new study, researchers have found some points to know that the person on other side is telling truth or is it a lie.
Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Department of Communication, Cornell University conducted this study of online dating profiles to know about its trustworthiness.
Here are some points from the
journal published:
- Highly deceptive profiles will contain fewer self-references but more negations and negative emotion words than less deceptive profiles.
- Highly deceptive profiles will contain fewer exclusive words, increased motion words, but a lower overall word count than less deceptive profiles.
- Emotionally related linguistic cues to deception should account for more variance in deception scores than cognitively related linguistic cues in online dating profiles.
- Online daters will manage their self-descriptions by (a) avoiding deceptive topics and (b) compensating for deceptions by emphasizing accurate aspects of the self.
- Longer self-descriptions will be perceived as more trustworthy.
- Self-descriptions that contain fewer words per sentence will be perceived as more trustworthy.
- Self-descriptions that contain more articles will be perceived as more trustworthy.
- Self-descriptions that contain fewer second-person pronouns will be perceived as more trustworthy.
See the complete report
here.