# Can you really tell if a kid is lying?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2016
- Speaker: Kang Lee
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain, Society and politics, Languages and linguistics, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/kang_lee_can_you_really_tell_if_a_kid_is_lying)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Are children poor liars? Do you think you can easily detect their lies? Developmental researcher Kang Lee studies what happens physiologically to children when they lie. They do it a lot, starting as young as two years old, and they're actually really good at it. Lee explains why we should celebrate when kids start to lie and presents new lie-detection technology that could someday reveal our hidden emotions.

## Lectures

1. [Can you really tell if a kid is lying?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/kang_lee_can_you_really_tell_if_a_kid_is_lying/7366d3b54ac9), 14 min (TED's player)