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HOW TO TELL IF SOMEONE IS TELLING FIBS

Added on: 3rd Mar 2016

 

 

ONE OF THE MOST OBVIOUS SIGNS OF SOMEONE

LYING IS INCONSISTENT OR CONTRADICTORY

EXPLANATIONS

Contradictory buttons

 

 

LIARS WILL SOMETIMES HEDGE THE THINGS THEY SAY.

FOR EXAMPLE SOMEONE MIGHT PREFACE THEIR

EXPLANATION WITH "AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER…"

Mental wheels turning

 

 

IF SOMEONE IS LYING THEN THEIR GESTURES

AND THEIR WORDS MIGHT NOT LINE UP

Stopwatch on track

 

 

ACCORDING TO ISRAELI RESEARCHER AVINOAM SAPIR,

LIARS WILL OFTEN GIVE LONGWINDED INTRODUCTIONS

FULL OF DETAIL BUT THEN GLOSS OVER THE

IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE STORY WHERE

THE DECEPTION IS

Microphone

 

 

LIARS SOMETIMES WILL UNCONSCIOUSLY PLACE

OBJECTS BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND YOU

Two people talking

 

 

A LIAR WILL USUALLY TELL A STORY IN STRICT

CHRONOLOGY. SOMEONE TELLING THE TRUTH

WILL USUALLY RECOUNT THE MOST VIVID

EMOTIONAL DETAIL FIRST AND THEN

EXPLAIN THE REST

Watch

 

 

SOMEONE WHO IS LYING WILL TEND TO GO ON THE

DEFENSIVE. SOMEONE TELLING THE TRUTH WILL

TEND TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE

Martial Arts

 

 

PEOPLE USE DISTANCING LANGUAGE. THIS ALLOWS

THEM TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THE ACTION.

FOR EXAMPLE, "I CRASHED MY CAR" BECOMES

"I CRASHED THE CAR"

50 meters distance

 


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