I never equated the words &quot;social radar&quot; with &quot;lie detector&quot;. So perhaps I confused a thing or two here. It happens.<p>The short version of what I claimed is if you have good empathic skills (e.g. being better able to feel the facial expression other people are making at that moment), then you&#x27;ll have part of the answer of how to detect genuine people (and I believe being not genuine and lying are two completely different things).<p>About meditation itself and its relationship on social intelligence, there&#x27;s not much written about it, since I made the term &quot;social intelligence&quot; up. I&#x27;d recommend reading about meditation and emotional intelligence on Science Daily. Then practice it for 5 days in a retreat and then see for yourself how it could improve your &#x27;social radar&#x27;. I know it&#x27;s a lot of effort, but in my opinion that&#x27;s the minimal amount of investigation that you&#x27;d need in order to see if it holds value. The 5 day retreat is needed to gain the tacit knowledge that cannot be explained through language (just like the feeling of playing an instrument very quickly can only be practiced).