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How Can You Tell If Someone Is Lying?

Your lying face: The muscles that rat you out

A new study reveals that muscles in the upper face may divulge when people are not telling the truth. Researchers found four different facial muscles that a trained eye can use to separate genuine expressions of emotion from deceptive ones.

Source: msnbc.com: Health

Lying Someone Tell You How

Now this is something I will definitely like to become an expert in, it will come in so handy. Its probably one of the ways mentalists use to figure out things from people in a room.

How Can You Tell If Someone Is Lying? Health & Special Psychology

Eye contact reduces lying. A new study found that eye contact can make us act more honestly. Source 3n.

Lying Someone Tell You How

There are a number of things that can tell you if someone is lying or not:
- eye contact;
- too many small details- people that are lying are always giving more small details than average - it makes them think that by supplying many details it will make them more believable;
- their body language, their gestures
- the most important one is the face; there will be small indications (For a split second - twitches) on someone's face if they are lying.

Lying Someone Tell You How

Are eyes the window to our mistakes? When humans make certain types of mistakes, the size of their pupils change. This may offer clues as to what's going on in the brain when people make suboptimal decisions, researchers have found. Source 3q.

How Can You Tell If Someone Is Lying?

Exposing liars by distraction. It is well documented that lying during interviews takes up more cognitive energy than telling the truth. A new study found that investigators who used this finding to their advantage by asking a suspect to carry out an additional, secondary, task while being questioned were more likely to expose lie tellers. The extra brain power needed to concentrate on a secondary task (Other than lying) was particularly challenging for lie tellers. Source 6i.