Lie detection and language comprehension: People who can't understand words are better picking up lies about emotions

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6783, 2000, Pages 139-

  Etcoff, Nancy L ^a   Ekman, Paul ^b   Magee, John J ^c   Frank, Mark G ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Circlecom   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPREHENSION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 17644444604     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35012129     Document Type: Article

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