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This section contains information that did not belong in other sections, so it has its own section. This section talks about the legendary eye contact myth. For some reason, this myth has not been abolished, and has been around for ages. People think that if you do not maintain eye contact you are lying. This is only true in certain cases, you will have to read further to find out more.
Lie detection is tricky to apprehend, but if you apply everything you learn, you will rarely be lied to again! A wise man once said “Knowledge is not power until it is applied”. You may know everything in the world, but if you do not use that knowledge it is worthless.
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· Lying takes longer than telling the truth, so the time to answer may indicate a lie. Lying will take longer because liars need more time to think of an elaborate and plausible story.
· A liar will try to avoid eye contact because lying goes against their moral code. Looking someone in the eye is an intimate act. Liars find it hard to maintain eye contact for long periods of time, if at all. People can look you in the eye and lie, but when someone knows their in a great amount of trouble or they know their guilty, they have a much harder time looking you in the eye as they lie due to eagerness, anxiety, and agitation.
· Contradicting the last statement, some liars may make AN EXCESSIVE amount of eye contact, to try to be more believable. You just have to know their natural behaviors to decide which behavior is irregular.
· everyone has their own baseline - pattern of behavior, and basically if this person breaks their baseline their lying
· Professionals use the changing subject technique to ferret out liars. Someone who has been lying about a subject will become more relaxed, and will welcome this change in subject. A person who is telling the truth will have a cryptic expression on their face when you change the subject, and will try to direct the conversation back towards that subject.
How to tell if a person is bluffing
· When someone is bluffing, they attempt to convince others that they have a superior hand when they do not. The average person falls for this bluff, because he or she thinks “if he is acting so confident, he must have an advantage.” Think about this: if a person truly is so confident, they would feel no need to portray it.
· Think of it like a game of poker. If a person has a good hand, why would he or she act confident? Any rational person would act like he or she has a poor hand, so others would add more money to the pot.
· More often then not, an ample display of confidence is an unambiguous sign of bluffing, because if someone is truly confident, then they would feel no need to convince other people that they are.
Please read more about lie detection here:
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