How to Respond to Accusations When Guilty

You don't plan to get caught, but if you do it's important to be able to lie your way gracefully out of any consequences of your behavior. Learning to lie convincingly will go a long way towards getting you off the hook, combined with a few other sneaky methods of responding to accusations when you are truly guilty. Read on to learn more.

Instructions

1. Prepare your response to an accusation at the time you are doing your dirty deed. Waiting until you are caught means you'll have to come up with an excuse or lie on the fly, leading to inconsistencies that make others suspicious.

2. Keep your responses simple and short. Do not provide any more details than are needed to respond to the accusation or question. People who lie often keep adding so many details to a simple question that they make the accuser suspicious. Also, it's too easy to forget the details of your lie when questioned later.

3. Remain calm no matter how guilty you are feeling or what you are asked. Keep your body posture normal, don't fidget. Try to look the person you are talking to in the eye and project the idea that your falsehood is the truth.

4. Make your response sound reasonable. Alien abduction will seem much less likely than a traffic jam as a cause for being two hours late for a dinner date.

5. Accuse someone else. Turn the focus of the conversation from you to another person and then elaborate with plausible details. For example, if accused of leaving the coffee pot on overnight at work, mention you saw Sally in Accounting getting a cup of coffee during the afternoon break time.

6. Tell the truth and ask for forgiveness as a last resort. Always look suitably contrite and squeeze out a few tears, if you can.