How can you tell when someone is lying to you?!
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The following techniques to telling if someone is lying are often used by police, and security experts. This knowledge is also useful for managers, employers, and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from being a victim of fraud/scams and other deceptions.
Warning: Sometimes Ignorance is bliss; after gaining this knowledge, you may be hurt when it is obvious that someone is lying to you.
Signs of Deception:
Body Language of Lies:
• Physical expression will be limited and stiff, with few arm and hand movements. Hand, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar takes up less space.
• A person who is lying to you will avoid making eye contact.
• Hands touching their face, throat & mouth. Touching or scratching the nose or behind their ear. Not likely to touch his chest/heart with an open hand.
Emotional Gestures & Contradiction
• Timing and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are off a normal pace. The display of emotion is delayed, stays longer it would naturally, then stops suddenly.
• Timing is off between emotions gestures/expressions and words. Example: Someone says "I love it!" when receiving a gift, and then smile after making that statement, rather then at the same time the statement is made.
• Gestures/expressions don’t match the verbal statement, such as frowning when saying “I love you.”
• Expressions are limited to mouth movements when someone is faking emotions (like happy, surprised, sad, awe, )instead of the whole face. For example; when someone smiles naturally their whole face is involved: jaw/cheek movement, eyes and forehead push down, etc.
Interactions and Reactions
• A guilty person gets defensive. An innocent person will often go on the offensive.
• A liar is uncomfortable facing his questioner/accuser and may turn his head or body away.
• A liar might unconsciously place objects (book, coffee cup, etc.) between themselves and you.
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Verbal Context and Content
• A liar will use your words to make answer a question. When asked, “Did you eat the last cookie?” The liar answers, “No, I did not eat the last cookie.”
•A statement with a contraction is more likely to be truthful: “ I didn't do it” instead of “I did not do it”
• Liars sometimes avoid "lying" by not making direct statements. They imply answers instead of denying something directly.
• The guilty person may speak more than natural, adding unnecessary details to convince you. they are not comfortable with silence or pauses in the conversation.
• A liar may leave out pronouns and speak in a monotonous tone. When a truthful statement is made the pronoun is emphasized as much or more than the rest of the words in a statement.
• Words may be garbled and spoken softly, and syntax and grammar may be off. In other
words, his sentences will likely be muddled rather than emphasized.
Other signs of a lie:
• If you believe someone is lying, then change subject of a conversation quickly, a liar follows along willingly and becomes more relaxed. The guilty wants the subject changed; an innocent person may be confused by the sudden change in topics and will want to back to the previous subject.
• Using humor or sarcasm to avoid a subject.
Final Notes:
Obviously, just because someone exhibits one or more of these signs does not make them a liar. The above behaviors should be compared to a persons base (normal) behavior whenever possible.
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sniff their privates for the scent of another
they wont look at you directly with most people and they dont speak exactly straight to you. I also worry when what they say doesnt make sense. Like they are searching for the right words
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Good Luck and God Bless!!
You can't unless you catch them out in the lie.
Old Saying, " You can catch a thief, but you cannot catch a liar"
Ohm's Law: V=IR
When , you lie you sweat. Therefore, resistance (in ohms) of body goes down. So Intensity (in Amperes) goes up.
They look down and to the left.
by incorrect statements and by unusual bodylanguage
they dont look straight in the eye when they are telling u something. its hard to know cuz some people are really good liars
Not looking you in the eye, nervous movement or fidgiting, they also blink more often than normal. Beware, a good liar can cover most of the symptoms and may be impossible to detect.
the eyes. if someone if hidding something from you, their pupils will be smaller than normal.
Body language. I heard that if they touch there face while telling the line,,the farther up,,the bigger the lie.For instance,,touching their chin,cheek,,top of head like an itch or something.It sounds funny but I think its true,,lolol.
Hmm, when they talk about what they're trying to lie about they don't make eye contact..or maybe the old superstition.scratching their nose (Pinocciho).or fumbling for words.or just plain truth comes out and they can't deny it!
they go to great lengths to avoid eye contact. they'll look out the window, look at the floor, whatever. May even try to change the subject.
There is three ways you can tell:
1) Not looking straight at your eyes when that person talks to you. Normally if you ask the question and when the person asnwer it is not looking directly at your eyes it is sign that is either lying or hiding something.
2) When the person move his eyes to the left and up (right side from your side) means the person is looking for an answer. Basically is making up the answer instead of saying the true.
3) If you ask kind of the same question in different ways, or some follow-up questions related to his answer, and his asnwers are not consistent or don't make sense then that person is LYING.
If they look right when they are talking, they are remembering and usually telling the truth. If they look left, it means creating, like lying.
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CSI Vegas(the best)
When someone is lying they use the part of the brain which is used for imagination and story telling. Instead of the side used for memory which is the opposite side of the brain. This shows in the way their eyes look to the left or the right when talking. One side indicates truth the other lies (imagination). The only problem is I can not remember which side is for what!
If anyone else know please speak up!
I have this weird way of knowing when someone lies to me, only if they are close to me. Go with what you feel in side, most of the time your first instinct is correct.
If they can't look you in the eye, they stutter and most importantly if your gut is telling you they are lying they are. So always listen to your gut!
Depends solely on the liar. If they're professionals at it, no outward signs may be present at all. For the more novice liar, shifting eyes, looking down while talking, stuttering, and fidgeting with hands could be signs although it may be that the person is just nervous.
I think our instincts are the most helpful resource in picking out a liar. You just KNOW the person's lying. It's something you feel.
There are books on body language that go into detail about the tell tell signs of a liar, but like I said, that only goes as far as the liar's capabilities. Good luck in picking out the slime.
If they seem to be really offended that you would even accuse them of lying to you, thats usually a sign that they are lying. Or, they may try to focus the blame on you for a completely different matter so you will be too busy defending yourself to have time to get back to the lie.
contrary to popular belief that they will become evasive and "shifty", it has actually been proven that they will maintain more eye contact, in order to make themselves seem genuine. make over-exaggerated hand movements (in the case of politicians to seem more important).
if someone is a bad liar however, they may laugh, become shifty, avoid the subject and avoid eye contact.
it all depends on how good of a liar they are. beware of the extremes of these.but also take into consideration that the person in question may be incredibly arrogant (therefore seeming confident.aka, a good liar), or very shy and timid, coming across as a bad liar.
I have used these techniques in my professional line of work and alot of them are right on the money.but not always. so be very careful, whom you call a liar.
There is alot of ways to tell, when someone is lying here are a few:
A guilty person gets defensive.
A liar might unconsciously place objects between themselves and you.
They may turn there head or body away from you because they are uncomfortable facing you.
They will avoid making eye contact.
Using humor or sarcasm to avoid the subject.
If you believe that someone is lying to you, then change the conversation quickly, a liar follows along willingly and becomes more relaxed. The guilty wants the subject to
be changed; an innocent person may be confused by the sudden change in topics and will want to go back to the previous subject.
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