People lie all the time, but depending on how skilled they are, it can be difficult to determine when someone is lying to you.
Do you know how to recognize the signs that someone is lying to you?
Some
of the signs are obvious while others are more subliminal, but there
are ways to catch someone in a lie, you just need to know what they are.
Here are some easy ways to recognize liars and catch lies:
1. A person who is lying to you won’t make eye contact with you or they make too much eye contact.
If
a person is lying they may feel you are scrutinizing them and they will
look down at the floor or away from your eyes. Some people try to stare
you in the face in a deliberate way because they feel like making eye
contact will make what they are saying more believable.
2. Liars avoid using contractions…
“I
did NOT have sexual intercourse with at woman”. This is an attempt by
the liar to be absolutely clear what they mean but it ends up making the
story a lot less believable. Stalling tactics are also common. The liar
may ask you a question like “where did you get that information?” while
they try to back peddle and come up with an explanation for your
question.
3. Weird Body Language
Liars
often fidget, turn away from the person to whom they are speaking, blink
rapidly, smile less and have pitch changes in their tone of voice. They
may cross their arms which is a sign of being “closed” or trying not to
reveal too much information. Sometimes people fidget excessively when
they are lying. They could fidget with a part of their body or touch
parts of their face, an ear or a nose or play with keys or another item
that they have in their hand.
4. Liars provide additional information without being asked for it.
They
seem to think that by embellishing their story you will find it more
believable. What happens is they tend to make the story more complicated
and less believable. The more elaborate the story, the more likely that
it is a fabrication and nothing near the truth.
5. A person who is telling a lie will get defensive.
They
will do everything in their power to deflect your attention away from
themselves and will get angry that you are questioning their innocence.
People who are telling the truth tend to go the opposite way and go on
the offense. This will become obvious to you when you are trying to have
a conversation with a person and they try to change the subject or move
the conversation in a different direction.
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