A precise title if there ever was one, followed with a column full of simple and precise solutions.
58,000 words coming from this Vatican is less a document than a protestant primal scream from, of all places, inside Holy Mother Church and in proximity of the Seat of Peter. Ghastly.
On Lying and Being Lied To: A Linguistic Analysis
Department of Communication, Cornell University
Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
This study investigated changes in both the liar’s and the conversational partner’s linguistic style across truthful and deceptive [two-person] communication... An analysis of 242 transcripts revealed that liars produced more words... when lying than when telling the truth. In addition, motivated liars avoided causal terms when lying, whereas unmotivated liars tended to increase their use of negations. Conversational partners also changed their behavior during deceptive conversations, despite being blind to the deception manipulation... The linguistic patterns in both the liar and the partner’s language use were not related to deception detection, suggesting that partners were unable to use this linguistic information to improve their deception detection accuracy.