How to Perfect Lie Detecting Skills

Have you ever suspected someone of lying just by observing how they speak or act? Truth is, a lot can be learned from a person's body language. Law enforcement use various lie detecting techniques, in addition to polygraph tests, during interrogation to see if people are telling the truth. But, you don't have to be a cop or psychic to tell if someone is lying. You can hone your lie detecting skills so you can determine if people are lying to you in everyday life. Here's how:

Instructions

1. Examine body Language. People who are lying often exhibit one ore more of these body language clues:
   Avoid Eye Contact
   Touching Face, throat, mouth, tucking hair behind their ears
   Not likely to touch their heart or chest with open hand
   Keep an eye on their body language to determine whether or not they could be displaying one or more of these signs.

2. Analyze their emotions and gestures. Is there a delayed reaction or no reaction at all to statements? For example... do they say "Oh No..." then bring their hand to their mouth in shock? Do their physical movements match their verbal statements? Also, people who are normally lying will get very defensive if you ask them a lot of questions concerning the topic you are asking about.

3. Listen to their words and voice inflections. Look out for these verbal cues that a person is lying:
   - Giving too much info. A lot of details that end up being false.
   - Mumbling
   - While speaking to them, a change of subject will be welcome. Whereas, if a person is telling the truth they will want to keep talking about the subject until they rid themselves of guilt.
   - Answering a question without really answering. i.e. "Why would I do something like that?"

Tips & Warnings

• A good test is to ask a series of questions that you KNOW are true, then examine the differences between the statements you know are true and the statements you suspect are false.

• Rememebr, even though a person is displaying some of these signs it does NOT mean they are definitely lying.