This is called a "temporal contiguity" error, according to Paul Morris, a psychology lecturer at England's University of Portsmouth. He says it occurs in about 29% of fake injuries.

英国普利茅斯大学心理学讲师莫里斯称，这叫做"时间接近"，约29%的假摔属于这种行为。

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But Aldert Vrij, professor of social psychology at the University of Portsmouth, who has written books on lie detection, cast doubt on whether people possessed the ability to spot liars.

但是Aldert Vrij，朴茨茅斯大学社会心理学的一位教授，他写了几本关于测谎方面的书，让人在是否能识别说谎者方面产生了怀疑。

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The team of researchers, led by University of Portsmouth, said that it is the first time they have been able to prove time is not a deeply entrenched universal human concept, as previously thought.

朴茨茅斯大学研究人员表示：这一发现与以往想法不同，它首次证明，时间并不是植根于人类脑中根深蒂固的概念。

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