If a person tells a lie, he usually monitors what he says and how, and also controls his own emotions. Do you want to bring a liar to clean water? Carefully study the non-verbal signs of a lie, because monitoring your own words is much easier than facial expression or hand movement. Only experienced actors can prepare intonation and gestures carefully. Since the speaker hears himself, during the conversation he selects the most appropriate manner of presentation in the current situation. As for their own facial expressions, intonation and plastics, watching them is much more difficult. Consider the main signs of human lies in more detail.
Covering the mouth
Trying to identify signs of a lie, observe the movements of the interlocutor. Recognizing the characteristic gestures, you can understand that you are being deceived. So, liars often cover their mouth with their hands. Young children do this openly, as if trying to stop lying words. As people grow older, such a gesture becomes less noticeable, but still holds. If you notice how your interlocutor made this movement, start to watch him closely. The gesture discussed above should be taken into account in conjunction with others. A single covering of the mouth with your hand does not mean anything concrete.
Touch on the nose
This gesture is inherently a masked variation of the previous one. Is someone telling you something to touch the dimple under his nose? This movement can be explained as follows: when evil thoughts enter the consciousness, the subconscious gives a signal to the hand to cover its mouth. However, in most cases, the desire that has arisen is disguised literally at the last moment. As a result, we observe touching the nose. An alternative explanation is this: in the process of pronouncing lies, delicate urges arise. In this case, the nose is scratched to get rid of them.
Closing my eyes, I see no sin
This movement is caused by the desire to hide from deception or not meet the eyes of a person who is lying. Recognizing the signs of lying in the eyes, take into account the gender of the interlocutor. So, women usually gently hold their finger under the eye, and men vigorously rub their eyelids. When telling a lie, liars in most cases look away.
Scratching
Do you want to reveal the signs of a speaker’s lie? Take a close look at whether he scratches his neck or the area under the earlobe with his index finger. Researchers have come to an interesting conclusion. It consists in the fact that a liar usually makes five scratching movements. Very rarely, their number varies up or down.
The action described above is due to the occurrence of an itchy sensation in the lower muscle tissues of the neck and face when pronouncing a lie.
Facial expressions
Signs of a lie on the face are divided into the following groups:
- Variable characteristics. Expressions with a duration of more than five seconds are most likely to be called unnatural. Sincere emotions succeed each other much faster. The exception is the highest 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. Mismatch can be called a sure sign that the individual shows mock emotions.
- Relationship with speech. The delay in expressing feelings after spoken words reveals a liar.
Smile
You can recognize a lie by one more sign. Is your interlocutor smiling, although the situation is quite serious? There can be two reasons for this. The first is the desire to relieve tension. The most common example is a silly at first glance smile when reporting tragic news. Since deception can be considered a situation that increases tension, a smile 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, poses
Studying the signs of a lie, it is impossible to ignore the gestures that signal the pretense of the speaker. Researchers have identified an extensive group of gestures called acting. They show those emotions that the liar does not really experience. For example, to express love, sugary sentimentality, biting of lips, rolling of eyes, clasping of hands to a heart is used. To portray intense excitement, a person walks back and forth, and if he wants to show that he is very bored, he begins to yawn and stretch widely.
It was possible to identify that all unnatural movements either exaggerate real emotions or suppress them. In the first case, one can observe enhanced hand movements, 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 speaks the truth, his body sends signals to others, which are called unambiguous psychologists. In this case, the speaker is usually kept straight. The body is a straight line connecting the head to the feet. What is observed when the correspondence between words and thoughts is broken? 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. Suspicions should cause a hitch in the speech, as well as too short pauses between the question and the answer.
According to experts, the voice of a voice is often betrayed by a liar. The manifestation of emotions (especially fear and anger) entails an increase in tone. When conducting experiments, it was found that in seventy percent of cases the deceiver's voice increases.
Signs of a lie in women
In addition to the universal signals listed above, indicating lies, there are narrower signs, indirectly related to the gender of the speaker.
- Touching a chain or pendant around her neck, a woman is fueled by confidence in her own lies.
- Clapping her eyes and sighing languidly, the liars are trying to distract attention from the main thing.
Ladies are always sure of what they say, even if this is an absolute lie. So by the voice it will be difficult to bring a liar to clean water, but you should watch the gestures.
Signs of a lie in men
Talking in elevated tones, obvious aggression, intermittent breathing and rubbing your thigh with your palm are signs that the stronger sex is telling you a lie. As noted by the German psychologist M. Janson, 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 carefully consider their line of behavior.
Refrain from hasty conclusions
When interpreting the behaviors described above, be very careful. Identified signs of a lie can actually indicate the uncertainty of your interlocutor.
The absence of lies is not yet proof of the truth. The deceiver can simply not allow any rash gesture. Especially often a person is mistaken at the first meeting. This is due to the lack of ability to detect unusual behavior of the opponent. For example, a person gesticulates intensely 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 only uses his leading hand.
Consider whether you have any prejudice about the alleged liar. Do not jump to conclusions if you dislike a person.
It is assumed that a change in voice may be the result of frustration or remorse. But this has not yet been proven. In addition, scientists have not yet revealed whether the tone of a person who is delighted with successful deception is changing.
It must be borne in mind that not only liars, but also absolutely innocent individuals can experience emotional arousal.
Conclusion
Trying to recognize a liar, people usually pay special attention to gestures, eyes 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 lies of the suspect were deemed proved. It has long been known that a person who is telling a lie has shifts in the usual manifestations of physiological reactions.