Sitting in Judgment: How Body Posture Influences Deception Detection and Gazing Behavior

Body postures can affect how we process and attend to information. Here, a novel effect of adopting an open or closed posture on the ability detect deception was investigated. It hypothesized that adopted by judges would their social acuity, resulting in differences detection nonverbal behavior (i.e., microexpression recognition) discrimination deceptive truthful statements. In Study 1, produced higher accuracy for detecting naturalistic lies, but no difference observed recognition brief facial expressions as compared posture; trait empathy found have additive posture, with more empathic having scores. 2, use eye-tracker, effects gazing when judging both low-stakes high-stakes lies were measured. Sitting reduced judges’ average dwell times looking at senders, particular, amount length time they focused hands. The findings suggest simply shifting impact attention visual information veracity judgments (Mg = 0.40, 95% CI (0.03, 0.78)).