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What are the main findings of your research? Not only do we lie frequently, but we lie without even thinking about it. People lie while they are getting acquainted an average of three times in a 10-minute period. Participants in my studies actually are not aware that they are lying that much until they watch videos of their interactions...
...reasons people get away with so much lying, your research suggests, is that we are all essentially dupes. Why do we believe so many lies? This is what I call the liar's advantage. We are not very good at detecting deception in other people. When we are trying to detect honesty, we look at the wrong kinds of nonverbal behaviors, and we misinterpret them. The problem is that there is no direct correlation between someone's nonverbal behavior and their honesty. "Shiftiness" could also be the result of being nervous, angry, distracted or sad. Even trained interrogators [aren...
First, if a tsunami of private-equity players and REITs jump into the sector, competition for assets will heat up, which could drive prices up. If this happens, potential profits will shrink, says Tom Fink, senior vice president of Trepp LLC, a commercial-mortgage-research firm...
...century's worth of warming for $9 billion. Compare that to the political complexity and the economic unknowns associated with a meaningful and enforceable global climate accord. "The benefits are so great, at a low cost, that at the very least it makes sense to invest in a real research program for this," says Lane. (See pictures of the world's most polluted places...
...Bernie Madoff by Erin Arvedlund (Portfolio) carefully details how Madoff's marks, some of them supposedly sharp hedge-fund managers, became feeder funds for Madoff's enterprise by willfully or negligently failing in their due diligence to check out the bogus Madoff claims. "The same people did more research on buying a car than they did on the man who handled their money," she writes...