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A team of psychologists at the University of Utah is working on a new way to tell if someone is being dishonest. Rather than measure a person’s emotional reaction—the way polygraphs do—their method measures a person’s cognitive response. To do this, they record things like pupil dilation, response time, reading time, and errors while people answer true-and-false questions on a computer.
What are they looking for? Very minute changes that signal a person is working hard, since lying, they say, requires more effort than telling the truth does.
John Kircher, who’s working on this eye-tracking method, is excited:

We have gotten great results from our experiments. They are as good as or better than the polygraph, and we are still in the early stages of this innovative new method to determine if someone is trying to deceive you.

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Women are happier when their boyfriends act authentically instead of doing things just to please them or avoid punishment, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Florida. They say heterosexual relationships become more fulfilling when men allow their girlfriends to see them for who they really are by acting according to their own values and preferences.
But the really interesting thing is that guys didn’t seem to much care whether women reveal their true selves. Psychologist Gregory Webster says he’s not sure how to explain the gender difference:

other than there is a tendency for women to base more of how they’re doing in a relationship on how happy their partner is. Since women are frequently the ones ‘in charge’ of intimacy in the relationship, when men strive for openness and honesty the women’s job of regulating intimacy is made easier.

It’s also worth noting that the study’s participants were all undergraduate students, and “at that stage,” Webster explains in a write-up of the research, “women are more mature in their relationship styles than men. It could be that women at that age pay more attention to a partner’s authenticity than the other way around.”
Girls should also keep in mind that women who acted authentically has greater personal well-being and functioned better in their relationships—they were more intimate and less destructive—which increased their boyfriends’ satisfaction.