Detecting a liar

It can be so heartbreaking to find out that the person you trusted so much has been lying all along, most times as humans we trust others too much and end up being disappointed. How then can one tell when someone is lying? the truth is we are no lie detector but there are several ways one can detect a liar through their body language, below are some signs to tell if someone is lying to you.

Lack of hand gestures: “When someone is lying to you they stop using hand gestures they are not passionate about that it because they don’t believe in what they are saying too but when they are genuinely telling the truth they passionately tend to use their hands to explain what they are saying”.

Watch for the eye contact: “Watch for eye contact, eye contact can be a difficult one to judge, because an unpractised liar will avert their gaze, if they are lying, whereas a practiced liar will hold your gaze for longer than usual, in a deliberate attempt to convince you that they are telling the truth, the answer is to look for the changes in the way that they look at you, that will usually give them away”.Hiding their face

Hiding their face: “People who are lying will often try to hide their deceit behind their hands, beware of the person that uncharacteristically brings their hands up to their mouths or their face while talking because they might be trying to hide something from you, scratching and ear pulling are also subconscious ways to unveil that people try to hide a lie”.

Watch out for well-rehearsed performance: “Someone is lying to you is to observe whether that person talks naturally or is performing, people who lie often talk as though they have rehearsed a speech and they have typically thought through what they are going to say to you, it’s rarely a completely off-the-cuff thing, so they will have rehearsed their speech beforehand, and you will be able to spot their performance, if you are looking for it”.

Watch out for the long pauses: “Unless they are very good at it, people need time to spin a good lie, it means that they are likely to pause, longer than usual between something that you say and their answer as it will give them time to work out an answer that will fit in with the story that they are weaving”.

Lip licking: “When someone is lying to you is to watch their lips, lying puts a lot of stress on the body, and one of the most common symptoms that liars suffer from, is a dry mouth so one of the best giveaways, when someone is lying to you, is their uncontrollable desire to lick their lips, so watch out for that one”.

Watch their feet: “The feet of someone lying can give a lot away too, uncontrolled tapping of the foot can mean that someone is trying to keep something from you, as is pulling their feet back from you as they talk it is a sure sign that a person is trying to hide something”.
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