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Signs Your Boss Is Lying to You

Thu, 09/02/2010 - 08:17 — Dave Culver
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If your boss says something is fantastic, chances are, it’s probably not.

Seth Fiegerman, Mainstreet

If your boss says something is fantastic, chances are, it’s probably not.
A recent study found that deceptive CEOs tend to express “more extreme positive emotions” when trying to cover up something and forego language that makes them seem hesitant or uncertain.

Two researchers at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business have scoured through transcripts of 30,000 conference calls involving CEOs and CFOs of businesses around the country between 2003 and 2007. The researchers then compared what these executives were saying about their business’s finances to what was actually the case. The goal was to figure out how their choice of words change while lying.

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