Eye contact while lying during an interview

Abstract

Male and female subjects were placed into an interview situation with male and female confederates of the experimenter’s. Eye contact measures were taken during the interview. Then, the subjects were instructed to continue the interview but to give untruthful answers. Eye contact measures were again taken. The difference between the eye contact measures while lying and while being truthful served as the major data. The results showed that males gazed longer into the female conderates’ eyes while lying, and the females gazed longer into the male confederates’ eyes while lying.