Resultsīoth training groups significantly improved at recognizing their respectively trained cues after training. Participants completed a pre-test deceit detection task, their assigned training, and a post-test deceit detection task. Approximately 150 older adults were randomly assigned to facial training, verbal training, or a control condition. This study compared the effectiveness of two training methods to improve deceit detection among older adults: valid facial cues versus valid verbal cues to deception. One reason for poor deceit detection abilities is that lay theories of cues to deception are not valid. Older adults are even worse than young adults at detecting deceit, which might make them uniquely vulnerable to certain types of financial fraud.
In general, people are poor at detecting deception.
