Ways of Spotting a Liar
How to find out whether someone is lying.
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Little white lies are tossed our way daily, and getting to the truth of the matter can be frustrating, time consuming even upsetting.
Lies occur between friends, between teacher and student, doctor and patient, husband and wife, witness and jury, lawyer and client and between salesman and customer. Lying is such a central characteristic of life that understanding it better is relevant to all human affairs.
How do we spot lies, both the little white ones and the real whoppers? Experts say to try out these compelling tips.
Hear the Voice carefully: – Vocal changes that deviate from the normal can indicate deception. A crack in the voice, change in speech rate, either too fast or too slow and a change in breathing pattern all show deceit.
Look past shifty eyes: - If people look away while trying to think something difficult that does not indicate a deceit , but if they look away while answering something , which is not difficult to answer, then you should wonder , why is it so?
If people are lying about something, they would normally avert their eyes.
Watch these words: - According to a professor of Psychology, lying reveals itself in two significant ways. First, liars tend to use fewer first person pronouns like I, me and mine, than truth tellers. They don’t want to ‘own ‘their messages. Secondly, liars use fewer exclusionary words -but, nor, except, whereas etc.
Body language: - Sometimes body language also shows some incongruity. Changes in hand movements, shrugs that are inconsistent to what is being said.
Check out for Emotional give aways.
The micro expression that flit across people’s faces, often show what they are truly feeling or thinking, as opposed to what they would like us to believe. But these ultra brief facial movements some lasting a few seconds is not easy to detect. Deliberate liars tend to hide their emotions with expressions like smiling to further disguise a lie.
There are smiles of true enjoyment which involve not just the lips, but the muscles that surrounds the eye. The masking smiles cover fear, anger, sadness or disgust. If you are a good observer, you can see trace of one of these emotions leaking through.
So we hope, next time someone tells us a lie we would know how to detect one.
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