Academics create algorithm that can detect if you're lying in emails

A lie has no legs, the saying goes, but when you’re online, you don’t need legs. You can cruise through the Internet, lying to people free of the little signals which could give you away, such as body language. This is a topic academics from the Cass Business School tackled, ultimately creating an algorithm that can detect lies in an email. I’m totally serious. It works by detecting "linguistic cues of deception". The paper, "Untangling a Web of Lies: Exploring Automated Detection of Deception in Computer-Mediated Communication" will be published in Journal of Management Information Systems. For example, liars tend not… [Continue Reading]