Ten Ways To Tell If Someone Is Lying To You
Wouldn’t be useful to know who is lying to you. How would you trust a person – only if the person wouldn’t lie to you. “The truth is out there” – (insert X-Files theme song) – see, human love to know the truth.
Elisabeth Eaves at Forbes gives number of ways for you to detect lies. Couple of indications include:
- Watch Body Language
- Seek Detail
- Beware Unpleasantness
- Observe Eye Contact
- Signs of Stress
- Listen for the Pause
- Ask Again
- Beware Those Who Protest Too Much
- Know Thyself
- Work on Your Intuition
Ten Ways To Tell If Someone Is Lying To You – [Forbes]
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Sai Emrys says on November 8th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Most of these are simply wrong.
I refer you to the excellent research (and books) by Paul Ekman for the details.
Short version: most of these are completely useless indicators at best, actually misleading at worst. There are other indicators that you don’t notice, eg microexpressions.