Summary
The costs to businesses annually due to undetected employee lies are outstanding. The costs of employee misconduct to the company range from somewhere between $6 billion to $200 billion annually in the United States (Berry & Lilly, 2003; Lipman & McGraw, 1988). Around 1/3 of businesses fail each year due to employee theft and personnel crimes according the United States Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, a study conducted in 2002 by Avert, Inc. found that 24% of the 1.8 million job applications whose credentials were checked made falsifications in regards to their qualifications.
The purpose of this study is to develop a framework to determine if a potential employee is indeed lying during a job interview, thus cutting down on the billions of dollars lost annually by businesses as described above.
For this study, two experiments were conducted. The first experiment was designed to find out if there was a difference in response time between liars and truth tellers......

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Title: A Cognitive Framework For Lie Detection
Approximate Word Count: 1274
Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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