Giulia Romano Cappi

And so they could say like, I think I performed well, I think I performed bad.

After that, we said, okay, now we're gonna tell you how you actually performed.

And we presented them with a random score, so it was not really true.

So we were the first one to lie.

And after that, we asked them to convince an expert in lie detection, which was, of course, not an expert in lie detection.

So we asked them to convince these experts, like, have you seen Lie to Me, the TV show?

There's an expert in light detection.

So we presented this researcher as an expert, and we told the participants, like, okay, now you have to convince them, whatever the actual score is, that you performed among the best.

So they had to perform.

At that point, they had to perform.

So we had, like, maybe they received an actual positive score.

So it was the truth, no?

You say, okay, you did good.

Now tell me you did good.

And you say, well, yeah, I did good.

So that's a true answer.

Or maybe I told you, you did bad.

You did really bad.

Now you have to tell me, to convince me that your score was actually good.

And you will start maybe sweating.