Knowing How to Lie With Handwriting

The mouth may lie, but sometimes the body gesture can not cover it. Some psychologists have identified people who lie only with style writing.Psikolog style Able to Detect Lies Through Writing.
For years, psychologists tried to solve the mystery of the handwriting characteristics. Detection of handwriting will be helpful in identifying a person's personality and for some cases may determine whether someone is guilty or not.

Currently, to detect lies, the authorities chose to use the polygraph. How it works polygraph is to take note and record all the body's response simultaneously by applying the sensor reader at a person's body organ function when given a question.

Simply put, when someone spoke, saying that the release would produce a psychological reaction that will affect the work of organs like the heart, skin, and others.

And when he was lying, polygraph sensors will read faster heart rate, irregular breathing, sweating and body tekanandarah increased.

Now, a team from the University of Haifa succeeded in reading the lies by the handwriting. By using the tools mengkomputerisasi handwriting, lies can be detected.

Several factors are measured during handwriting detection is the ratio between how long the pen is on paper with the air, paper size and pressure on the paper surface.

Researchers asked participants to write down a thing or a story on paper. Participant is free to write a false story or original stories.

By analyzing the results of the writing, the researcher can know where the student who wrote the original story and where the student who wrote false stories. There are differences in the characteristics of writing an honest person and the person who lied. According to the researchers, writing big and too much pressure on the type of writing paper is a liar.

The study published in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology shows that the analysis lies in writing can be an alternative to supplement or replace some other lie-detection methods that already exist.

"This is more convenient because it does not need to do a verbal communication or a complex technology like that found on the polygraph instrument," said study chairman, Gil Luria as reported Scientificamerican.