Special Lecture
The Future of Lying: Where Deception Meets Technology
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Jeff Hancock
Deception is one of the most significant and pervasive social phenomena of our age. At the same time, technologies have pervaded almost all aspects of human communication. The intersection between deception and information technology gives rise to questions about deception in the digital age. How does communication technology change the way we deceive others? Why and how do people lie in online dating? Can people detect if they are being lied to in an email? Can computer programs identify word patterns that reveal whether someone is lying or not? This talk will examine these questions and describe some recent research that may shed some light on the answers.
Jeff HancockJeff Hancock is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and in the Faculty of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. His work is concerned with how information technologies — such as email, instant messaging, and social networking sites — affect the way we understand and relate to one another. His research is supported by funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, and his work on lying online has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, BBC and ABC News. Dr. Hancock earned his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at Dalhousie University, Canada, and joined Cornell in 2002. Dr. Hancock's website is at cucmc.comm.cornell.edu/jth34.
