Truth Teller Vs Deception Essay

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f the statement should be shorter than the truth-teller.
However, most of the literature focuses on factual data or memories such as analysis of criminal data. An unofficial review of some of the messages produced by the Desert Survival Study showed that it is possible that subjects in this study were trying to enhance their credibility to make their certification ratings. Moreover, it seems that the deception provides more detailed reasons for their order while the truth teller, does not need to prove anything, ranked items with short, common sense reasons or no reason at all. Researchers then suggest that deceptive signals may tend to differ based on the intention of the deceptive. On the other hand, if deception is intended to prove credibility to enhance the success
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However, only a few are linguistic tricks in nature, for example, repetition of words and phrases, while most references include the behavior of the speaker, including facial expressions, eye seizures, etc.
(Neuman et al., 2003) they perform qualitative analysis of real and false stories using word counting tools. Computational work includes the study of (Zhou et al., 2004), which studied linguistic cues for deception detection in the context of text-based asynchronous computer mediated communication, and (Hirschberg et al., 2005) who focused on deception in speech using primarily acoustic and prosodic features[7].
(Mihalsia in 2009) created a data set focusing on three different topics: opinions about abortion, opinions about the death penalty, and feelings about the best friend. For each of these three topics an annotation task was defined using the Amazon Mechanical Turk service shown in

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