Posted on 05/02/2014 3:45:26 PM PDT by kingattax
Are you bad at spotting a lie?
New research by Dr. Leanne ten Brinke, a forensic psychologist at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and her collaborators, suggests that our instincts for judging liars are actually fairly strong — but our conscious minds sometimes fail us.
Luckily, there are signs we can look for when trying to detect a lie.
Dr. Lillian Glass, a behavioral analyst and body language expert who has worked with the FBI on unmasking signals of deception, says when trying to figure out if someone is lying, you first need to understand how the person normally acts. Then you'll want to pay careful attention to their facial expressions, body language, and speech patterns, she writes in her book "The Body Language of Liars."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
5. They provide too much information.
[Ever notice how lengthy and rambling Obama’s responses to questions are?]
It’s all about fairness.
“My favorite tell is when someone says “To tell you the truth:””
Yep. Also variants: “In all honesty...” “To be perfectly honest...”
There could be a nugget of truth in what you’re about to hear... but the speaker is also hiding something. Or lying about something else. Either way, shields up!
Their heads constantly swivel back and forth and they never look straight forward.
One of the chief lying news services tells us about liars. You can’t make this stuff up.
Thanks for posting the article.
The problem with their ‘rules’ are that no person’s behavior is absolute.
Anyone who has played poker at a professional or semi-pro level will use “false tells” to confuse their opponents. Once they feel that you have them figured out (or you them), they (or you) can make your move and walk away with the pot. The trick is that you have to be aware that they are setting up a pattern of false tells (lies) and use it against them. This is why poker is the absolute best game ever invented, IMHO.
Some people exhibit nervousness when having face-to-face conversations with someone they are not familiar with. For me personally, it makes me nervous when someone stares me directly in the eyes without blinking. It’s creepy.
A person may have physical problems that makes them cross and un-cross their legs, fidget in their chair, etc.
A person may cover their mouth when talking to an interviewer not because they are lying, but because they may be concerned about their breath or the condition of the teeth.
As I noted earlier, there are no absolutes.
The article didn’t mention “uh,uh,wait,uh,uh,let me tell you,uh,uh,uh,let me be perfectly clear,uh,uh,uh,the fact is,uh,uh.
Generally speaking, you’ve got to be acquainted with or at least have a passing familiarity with typical speech patterns and behavior of a person in order to detect a “tell.” The ones you need to worry about are pretty good at it. A stranger who is a poor liar can be identified as such fairly easily but a good one? Maybe, maybe not. Pay attention to your own gut instincts, a lot of it is subconscious, imho. What would be a “tell” for one person could be a nervous tic for another. There are few hard and fast rules that always apply equally, everywhere, to everyone.
Yep, always a big give away. Bad liars always over sell the lie.
Right. Speak slow, say a lot of umm’s and ahh’s ....
My favorite is, “The fact of the matter is....”
You mean that there are only eleven in the mac daddy administration?
One sure sign for obastard.. his lips move.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd
If he’s a politician then sign #2 is his lips are moving.
That kid has vital data, he has seen and touched the hatch covers on ‘obarrys head!
He found the controls to the TOTUS receiver.
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