Articles on Deception Detection Wizards
(aka Truth Wizards)

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Dr. Maureen O'Sullivan from the University of San Francisco, along with renowned expert Dr. Paul Ekman, completed a scientific study called The Wizards Project which has identified 50 people with the ability to see lies after testing more than 15,000 people.  Eyes for Lies is one of the 50 people identified.

Articles about Truth Wizards:

• Click by LavaLife:  Learn to Read Faces
   

• The Chicago Sun-Times:  Truth Wizards know when you've been lying (Online title:  Nothing Gets Past Real-Life Human Lie Detector)  
   

• Maine Law Officer's Bulletin:
  Truth Wizards Can Detect Lies
   

• Psychotherapy Today: Can Therapists Spot Liars? 
   

• CBC Documentaries (Canada):
  The Truth About Liars
   

• Ask a Scientist:Wizardary
   

• NPR:  The Face Never Lies
   

• Institution of Engineering and Technology:  Exposing the Big Lie
   

• Popular Mechanics:  The (Real!) Science Behind "Lie to Me"
   

• The Washington Post
  Don't Believe the "Lie to Me" Hype:  Even Trained Eyes Have A Hard Time Spotting Untruths;  Spotting A Lie Isn't As Easy As It Looks 
   

• MSNBC.COM:  Scientists Pick Out Human Lie Detectors 
   

• EurekAlert:  Lying and Deceit:  The Wizards Project
   

• Los Angeles Times:  Truth Wizards Can Tell When Someone's Lying
   

• WhyFiles.Org:  Have We Been Lying To You?
   

• Psychology Today:  Gut Almighty (p.3 talks about Wizards)
   

• University of San Francisco:  Psychology Professor Discovers Human Lie Detectors
   

• BBC News:  Select Few Can Identify Liars
   

• Eureka Alert:  Lying and Deceit:  The Wizards Project
   

• Scientific American Mind:  A Look Tells All
   

• American Psychological Association:  Detecting Deception
   

• Smithsonian Magazine:  Detecting Lies         
  (Link goes directly to page 4 for discussion about wizards)
   

• Science Daily:  Lying Is Exposed By Microexpressions We Can't Control
   

• Science News:  Deception Detection:  Psychologists Try To Learn How To Spot A Liar
   

• American Psychologist:  Who Can Catch A Liar
   

• LA Times:  Truth 'Wizards' Can Tell When Someone's Lying
   

• The New York Times:  43 Facial Muscles That Reveal
   

Books That Mention Wizards/ Wizards Project:

• Applications of Nonverbal Communication, By Ronald E. Riggio, Robert Stephen Feldman, Chapter 10: Emotional Intelligence and Deception Detection, Why Most People Can't Read Others, But a Few Can, By Maureen O'Sullivan
   
• The Detection of Deception In Forensic Context (Cambridge University Press), The Wizards of Deception Detection, By Maureen O'Sullivan and Paul Ekman

Other Articles on Deception:

• Statement Analysis:  What Do Suspects' Words Really Reveal?
   

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