Pinocchio reversed: failing to see lies, but still sensing the truth?

For decades, deception research has concentrated on the sender, searching for behavioural cues that betray dishonesty. This dissertation reverses that focus and centres on the receiver, the person perceiving, interpreting, and responding to (dis)honest communication. It advances a receiver-centric perspective on deception detection, combining evidence from eye-tracking, automated facial-expression analysis (AFEA), and theoretical integration to understand how humans feel truth even when they fail to consciously detect lies.