If a person tells a lie, he, as a rule, monitors what and how he says, and also controls his own emotions. Do you want to bring the liar to clean water? Carefully study the non-verbal signs of a lie, because it is much easier to follow your own words than your facial expressions or hand movements. Only experienced actors can carefully prepare intonation and gestures. Since the speaker hears himself, in the course of the conversation he selects the most appropriate manner of presentation in the current situation. As for your own facial expression, intonation and plasticity, it is much more difficult to observe them. Let's consider the main signs of a person's lies in more detail.
Mouth cover
Trying to identify signs of a lie, watch the movements of the interlocutor. By recognizing characteristic gestures, it will be possible to understand that you are being deceived. So, liars often cover their mouths with their hands. Young children do this openly, as if trying to stop the false words. As people grow older, such a gesture becomes less noticeable, but it still takes place. If you notice how your interlocutor made this movement, begin to carefully observe him. The gesture discussed above should be taken into account in conjunction with others. Covering your mouth once with your hand is still about nothing in particulardoes not speak.
Touching the nose
This gesture is essentially a disguised variation of the previous one. Does the person telling you something touch the dimple under his nose? This movement can be explained as follows: when bad thoughts enter the consciousness, the subconscious gives a signal to the hand to cover the mouth. However, in most cases, the desire that has arisen is masked literally at the last moment. As a result, we observe touching the nose. An alternative explanation goes like this: in the process of telling a lie, ticklish urges arise. In this case, the nose is scratched to get rid of them.
Closing my eyes, I see no sin
This movement is driven by the desire to hide from being deceived or not to make eye contact with the person being lied to. When recognizing signs of a lie in the eyes, take into account the gender of the interlocutor. So, women usually gently run their finger under the eye, and men vigorously rub the eyelid. When speaking a lie, liars in most cases look away.
Scratches
Do you want to detect signs of the speaker's lies? Look carefully to see if he scratches his neck or the area under his earlobe with his index finger. The researchers came to an interesting conclusion. It consists in the fact that the liar usually makes five scratching movements. It is extremely rare that their number varies up or down.
Described abovethe action is explained by the occurrence of an itchy sensation in the lower muscle tissues of the neck and face when pronouncing a lie.
Mimicry
Signs of a lie on the face are divided into the following groups:
- Variable characteristics. Expressions longer than five seconds are more likely to be called unnatural. Sincere emotions replace each other much faster. The exception is the highest intensity of passions.
- Asymmetry. If a person is lying, similar feelings appear on both sides of his face, but on one of them they are much more pronounced than on the other. Misalignment can be said to be a sure sign that an individual is showing feigned emotion.
- Correlation with speech. Delaying the expression of feelings after the spoken words reveals the liar.
Smile
You can recognize a lie by one more sign. Does your interlocutor smile, although the situation is quite serious? There may be two reasons for this. The first is the desire to relieve stress. The most common example is the seemingly stupid smile when delivering tragic news. Since cheating can be considered a tension-increasing situation, smiling in this case is explained by a similar mechanism.
The second reason is the desire to mask true emotions. Anger is replaced by a socially acceptable feeling of joy.
Movements, postures
When studying the signs of a lie, it is impossible to ignore the body movements that signal the pretensespeaker. Researchers have identified an extensive group of gestures called acting gestures. They demonstrate those emotions that a liar does not actually experience. For example, sugary sentimentality, biting lips, rolling eyes, pressing hands to the heart are used to express love. For the image of strong excitement, a person walks back and forth, and if he wants to show that he is very bored, he begins to yawn widely and stretch.
It was found that all non-natural movements either exaggerate real emotions or suppress them. In the first case, one can observe increased movements with the hands, impulsive jerking of the head or body. In the second, the mobility of all parts of the body, on the contrary, is limited.
If a person tells the truth, his body sends signals to others, called unambiguous by psychologists. In this case, the speaker, as a rule, keeps straight. The body is a straight line connecting the head to the feet. What is observed when there is a violation of the correspondence between words and thoughts? The body sends double signals. In this case, the line that repeats its contour becomes a broken line.
Voice Features
The most common sign of a lie is long pauses. Suspicion should cause pauses in speech, as well as too short pauses between the question and the answer.
As experts say, the tone of voice often betrays a liar. The manifestation of emotions (especially fear and anger) entails an increase in tone. When conducting experiments, it was revealed that in seventy percent of cases the pitch of the deceiver's voice increases.
Signs of lying in women
In addition to the universal signals listed above that indicate a lie, there are narrower signs that are indirectly related to the speaker's gender.
- Touching the chain or pendant around her neck, a woman is fueled by confidence in her own lies.
- Clotting her eyes and sighing languidly, the liar is trying to divert attention from the main thing.
Ladies are always sure of what they say, even if it is absolutely not true. So it will be difficult to bring a liar to clean water by voice, but it’s worth watching the gestures.
Signs of lying in men
Raising your voice, obvious aggression, shortness of breath and rubbing your thigh with your palm are signs that the representative of the stronger sex is telling you a lie. As the German psychologist M. Janson notes, it is much easier to recognize male lies than female ones. Everything is explained by the fact that the actions of the strong half of humanity are usually impulsive. As for the ladies, they usually think carefully about their line of behavior.
Don't jump to conclusions
Be very careful when interpreting the behaviors described above. The revealed signs of a lie can actually indicate the uncertainty of your interlocutor.
The absence of signals of lies is not proof of the truth. The deceiver may simply not allow a single reckless gesture. Especially often a person is mistaken at the first acquaintance. This is due to the inability to detect unusual behavioropponent. For example, a person strongly gesticulates with his left hand. You know that this is one of the non-verbal signs of a lie, and you begin to suspect it. In fact, it turns out that this person is left-handed, and he just uses his dominant hand.
Consider if you have any prejudice against the alleged liar. Don't jump to conclusions if you don't like the person.
It is assumed that the change in voice may be the result of frustration or remorse. But this has not yet been proven. In addition, scientists have not yet determined whether the tone of a person who is delighted with a successful deception changes.
Be aware that not only liars, but also completely innocent individuals can experience emotional arousal.
Conclusion
When trying to recognize a liar, people usually pay special attention to gestures, eye expression and voice. In ancient times, other methods were practiced, based on less obvious signs. For example, in China, a potential liar had to put a handful of dry rice in his mouth and listen to what he was accused of. If after that the rice remained dry, the suspect's lies were recognized as proven. It has long been known that when a person tells a lie, there are shifts in the usual manifestations of physiological reactions.
