4 important factors that help you quickly detect liars

How is it possible to detect whether the opposite is lying to me is always attractive to all of us and this excitement has been demonstrated through the popularity of many TV Show or movies, such as Lie To Me , The Negotiator . In these programs, small expressions through the microphone and eye movements are slowed down to the speed of sound, making it easy to recognize lies. Although spending a lot of time and effort to discover lies will help us to "read" others better, but you can also apply some of the following simple techniques to quickly detect out a liar without spending too much energy.

However, before going into specific techniques, there are four aspects to emphasize that you need to master that are body language, emotional cues, behavior that expresses feelings of error or discomfort, Language options and physiology.

1. Body language

When tracking someone's body language in order to test whether they lie or not, start comparing how they communicate by gesture with a basis of honesty . Understand simply that you can tell them a certain fact, remember in the beginning of this and follow their reaction when giving the answer. For example, if you know your partner has traveled to Hawaii, say "Last month, you just went on vacation in Hawaii for a week, that's great" . After that, I will continue to speak, but with a fact that "You still go to the beach somewhere else, too much experience" At this point, observe the gesture that shows your disagreement and follow their non-verbal language usage when you want to correct your last sentence. Based on the two answers yes (went to Hawaii) and no (no sea), you will have a basis for later judgment.

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Detect liars by observing gesture language (Photo: wikiHow)

From here, every time you feel someone lied to you, think about the situation you have done to test the abnormality in the opponent's body language and use them to compare. You create a story that you know is false to follow the opponent's denial reaction (when they deny the wrong that they are honest) and use it as the standard for later, whenever they feel Unusual in their behavior, use this standard for comparison.

Some common physiological manifestations help you discover someone who lies as follows:

  1. Less use of hand movements or yes but very rigid, uncomfortable.
  2. Less eye contact.
  3. Touch your face often.
  4. Body language does not match the words.

2. Emotional signals

The way of expressing emotions outside may reveal a person who is sincere or not. For this sign, you just need to pay attention to unusual emotional expressions that you can detect someone lying.

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Emotional change is to help detect liars (Photo: Internet)

Some techniques for you are as follows:

  1. Observing the delay in the opponent's emotions like laughing uncomfortably.
  2. Some emotions last longer than usual to hide their true feelings.
  3. Expressing emotions only on an area of ​​the face, not the whole, such as laughing but eyes looking away or looking .

3. Choose words

Choosing words is also a way to detect lies. When a person is lying, they need to keep distance from untruthful words (meaning they want to push lies to be completely different from the truth) through changing the way in which lies are expressed. .

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Drumming is a common habit of liars (Photo: Internet)

According to Dr. James W. Pennebaker of the University of Texas (Austin), "my", "my" pronoun expresses ownership and the speaker is confident with what he says. When lying, people use these pronouns less often because they have signs that they want to stay away from a lie, simply by speaking to another topic or drumming!

Some useful ways to identify are as follows:

  1. People who are lying lie give little direct words.
  2. Often repeat the words you said.
  3. Add some unnecessary details to the sentence.
  4. Tend to use words like "won't", "did not", "practically", "honestly", "frankly say" .
  5. Moves the topic abnormally (blank).

4. Physiological symptoms

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Detecting liars by observing physiological manifestations (Photos: wikiHow)

These three tips are all about how to detect lies based on controlling one's consciousness. However, there are still physiological manifestations that are difficult to hide, so you can easily recognize your opponent's problem:

  1. Sweat abnormally.
  2. Lying will increase the production of adrenalin, causing fluctuations in the secretion of saliva, causing us to swallow more and clear our throat.
  3. The heart is beating faster so breathing is faster
  4. Few blinks are an important sign.

Lying, though very popular, it doesn't happen naturally. Most of us want to tell the truth even if we need to lie. When lying, the brain undergoes cognitive overload to be able to provide the necessary resources to carry out the act of covering up the truth. Therefore, it is inevitable that the body reveals many unusual symptoms. The only key to discovering a lie is to use a combination of all of these methods wisely and don't forget to keep your mind clear .

Author: Jeisyn Murphy (CEO of Bright Mind NLP & Consulting Group)