ere are some methods to detect if somebody is not telling the truth that are frequently employed by security professionals and the police.
This knowledge also proves helpful for employers, managers, and for anybody to apply in their daily life where the ability to distinguish between the truth and a lie could help protect you from becoming a victim of scams/fraud and other con acts.
Warning: At times Ignorance is bliss; once armed with this knowledge, it may pain you to know that someone is clearly lying to you.
Detecting a false smile
Body Language of Deceit:
• There tends to be very little and rigid physical expression, with hardly any hand and arm movements. Leg, hand, and arm movements are directed towards their own body and the fibber takes up very little space.
• A liar will not see you in the eye.
• Hands pulling at their throat, mouth, face. Rubbing or touching the nose or scratching behind the ear. Not inclined to lay an open hand on his heart/chest.
Emotional Movements and Inconsistencies:
• Timing and length of emotional movements and feelings are slightly askew from the usual pace. The show of emotion is slow, lasts longer than normal, then abruptly ends.
• Timing is not right between emotions, movements/actions and words. For instance: Someone says, "I adore it!" when being handed a present, and subsequently smile after the making the statement, instead of simultaneously accompanying the statement with a smile.
• Actions/expressions don’t go with the oral statement, like scowling when saying, “I adore you.”
• Expressions are restricted to just mouth movements when a person is feigning emotions (such as joyful, astonished, miserable, wonder,) rather than the entire face. For instance, when a person breaks into a natural smile, their entire face is involved: eyes and forehead shift down, cheek/jaw movement, and so on.
Interactions and Responses
• A person in the wrong person becomes defensive. A person in the clear will usually get aggressive.
• A liar is uneasy confronting his accuser/questioner and may move his body or head away.
• A fibber might reflexively put objects (coffee mug, book, etc.) between you and themselves.
Oral Context & Content
• A fibber will employ your words in order to reply to a question. When questioned, “Did you consume the last coke?” The fibber replies, “Nope, I did not consume the last coke.”
• An abridged statement is more apt to be honest: “ I didn't have it” rather than “I did not have it”
• Fibbers at times avoid "fibbing" by not giving direct statements. They insinuate answers rather than refuting something directly.
• A fibber may omit pronouns and talk in a droning tone. When an honest statement is expressed the pronoun is stressed as much as or perhaps more than the other words in the statement.
• The person at fault may be more verbose, making needless information to sway you... they aren’t at ease with pauses or silence in the exchange.
• Words may be distorted and uttered softly, and grammar and syntax and may be imprecise. This means that the sentences will possibly be mixed-up instead of being stressed.
Other indications of an untruth:
•If you think someone is being economical with the truth, then swiftly shift the topic of discussion and the liar takes the bait readily and becomes more comfortable. The deceiver wants the topic changed; a guiltless person may be baffled by the abrupt change in subject and will desire to return to the earlier topic.
•Using wit or disdain to keep away from a topic.
End Notes:
Of course, simply because someone displays one or perhaps more of such signs doesn’t mean they are lying. The above actions should be contrasted with a persons base (usual) behavior whenever possible.
