8 ways to tell if someone’s lying 1. Body Language Watch their hands, studies show that people tend to touch their face and scratch their nose when lying 2. Eyes Liars always look at their top left. Looking to the top left means you’re being creative – as in lying – and looking to top right is recalling memories. 3. Words When lying, people will tend to skip contractions, saying “did not” instead of “didn’t.” Liars also avoid pronouns, saying “him/her” instead of their actual names. 4. Posture Liars like to keep their posture closed, folding their arms for example. Liars also unconsciously tend to put and object between you, like a cup of coffee. 5. Mouth When normal, people smile using many facial muscles, but liars tend to have an unnatural creepy half smile. 6. Pause When talking to the liar, pause momentarily, if the person feels restless and uncomfortable, they may be lying. 7. Details If they’re giving detail than necessary, this may be a bad sign. People tend to be overly specific when lying. 8. Change the subject If they seemed relieved that the subject has been changed, this is a red flag that they’ve been lying straight to your face
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Unfortunately, research shows that most of those “tells” for lying either do NOT work at all OR work so infrequently that it would be pretty irresponsible/dangerous to try applying them. You can read the actual research review of the field of nonverbal behavior lie detection by googling the authors or trying a library: The citation is De Paulo et al., 2003, Psychological Bulletin: Cues to deception