“What About the Men?”was the title of a Congressional briefing last week timed to __1__National Work and Family Month.“What about them?”you may be__2__ to yell．
When Ellen Galinsky，president of the Families and Work Institute，first went out on the road to talk about her organization’S research into men’s work-family __ 3 __ ．she received many such grumpy responses．Work—life experts laughed at her．Men are__4__，they said．
They don’t have the right to complain．That was in 2008，before the Great Recession had hit．And this year，when Galinsky went out on the road again to talk about the results of a new study on male work-life conflict，she got a very __ 5 __ response．Some men became very__ 6 __ ．They felt they didn’t have permission to feel __ 7__．“‘This is what I think about each and every day．”’she recalled another man telling her．“‘I didn’t realize that anyone else did．’”he said．“He thought he was alone，”Galinsky told me．
__8__men are __ 9__work—family conflict isn’t new．Indeed，it’s been some time Now that they--and younger men in particular--have been complaining of feeling the__10__in even greater numbers of women．Failure， __11__ ，uncertainty，the__12__ that comes from spending a lifetime playing one game__13__ ，mid—way through，that the rules have suddenly changed，seem to have__14__ the old categories of self，work and meaning for many men．
Is this a bad thing?I’d rather see it as a moment ripe__15__ possibility．“A new beginning.”said Ellen Galinsky．After all，what men are starting to say sounds an awful lot like the conversational stirrings that__16__ the way for the modern women’S movement．
For some years now，sociologists have been tracking the patterns of what they call__17__in men and women’S lives．Mostly.when we think of this，we tend to foCUS__18 __how they live，what they do，how they spend time，whether they do or do not empty the dishwasher or care for their children．But what about how they feel?NOW that this final frontier is being breached．I wonder if we aren’t fully prepared to see more meaningful change in men’s-and women’s and fami!ies’一lives than ever before．That is：if we can __19__the change and act__20__it with courage，not fear．
A．But scientists are still working to improve on that，and among them is social psychologist Aldert Vrij of the University of Portsmouth in England．Vrij has been using akey insight from his field to improve interrogation methods．In short，the truth
B．When Vrij and his colleagues asked volunteers what their offices looked like．after instructing half to tell the truth about their occupations and half to lie，both truth tellersand liars gave the same amount of detail in their verbal responses．But whe
C．All these tricks may seem like overkill when we think about the fictional detectives weknow，including Holmes Sherlock，who seem able to ferret out every falsehood theyhear without using any strategies other than their intuition．But in real life，such p
D．And in fact，that is just what happens in the lab：Vrij ran an experiment in which half the liars and truth tellers were instructed to recall their stories in reverse order．When observers later looked at videotapes of the complete interviews，they corr
E．Psychological scientists are fascinated by keen lie spotter．Detecting lies and liars isessential to effective policing and prosecution of criminals，but it is maddeninglydifficult．Most of us can correctly spot barely more than half of all lies and tr
F．Another strategy that could be surprisingly effective is to ask suspects to draw a picture． Putting pencil to paper forces people to give spatial information-something that most liars have not prepared for as part of planning t
G．Here are a few strategies that Vrij and his colleagues have been testing in the laboratory． One intriguing strategy is to demand that suspects tell their stories in reverse．Narrating backward increases cognitive load because it
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