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Here’s a great tool to pull out the next time you need to interrogate your teenager. According to researchers at the University of Portsmouth, forcing a suspect to retell their story in reverse order makes it much easier to tell if they are lying. The tactic is called “cognitive load interviews” and works on the premise that a subject trying to repeat a false version of events backwards would be far more likely to make mistakes. “Unlike truth-tellers, liars tend to tell their stories in a strict chronological time order and diverting from this order may well be too difficult for them to do,” said on of the professors who is developing this technique. (Times Online)