Published June 14, 2025
quotes Mark Frank a complex Iraqi bluffing game, which is traditionally played on Ramadan nights after the fast is broken. Frank’s research noted that many lie-detection experts experienced challenging childhoods, theorizing that reading adults’ expressions may have been a survival skill. The past two generations in Iraq have endured an almost unthinkable progression of wars, mass migrations and humanitarian crises. Even in the relative calm of recent years, bombings still occur with regularity. “That,” Frank said, “is an environment ripe for producing people who are good detectors of subtle clues.”
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