Self-professed online experts are convinced physical movement justifies total villainisation.
As with the deluge of trial memes, body language analysis decontexualises and obscures the truth. But instead of using jokes, it peddles pseudoscience to present her guilt as an incontrovertible fact. And it’s not something confined to certain corners of the internet, with famous body language ‘experts’ appearing onBody language analysis has long been a crass form of entertainment in the tabloid press.
“I can’t tell you if she’s lying about everything,” Gregory Hartley says. “What I can tell you is that she’s masking her real person and trying really hard.” He condemns using non-verbal communication as concrete evidence . But this rarely seems to be the conclusion arrived at by the people seeking out his content. “She's so pathetic when she's trying to fabricate” writes one user in the video’s comment, “Amber is a total mental case liar!!!!” reads another.
Maria Hartwig points out that when people are looking for indications that someone might be lying, they are typically looking for signs of anxiety. “Both the liar and the truth teller who are concerned about their credibility may experience anxiety… being thought of as potentially a liar is very aversive,” she says. “Relying on anxiety cues is going to end up misclassifying a lot of innocent people as guilty, because innocent people experience anxiety too.
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