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
LIARS WILL SOMETIMES HEDGE THE THINGS THEY SAY.
FOR EXAMPLE SOMEONE MIGHT PREFACE THEIR
EXPLANATION WITH "AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBER…"
IF SOMEONE IS LYING THEN THEIR GESTURES
AND THEIR WORDS MIGHT NOT LINE UP
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
LIARS SOMETIMES WILL UNCONSCIOUSLY PLACE
OBJECTS BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND YOU
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
SOMEONE WHO IS LYING WILL TEND TO GO ON THE
DEFENSIVE. SOMEONE TELLING THE TRUTH WILL
TEND TO GO ON THE OFFENSIVE
PEOPLE USE DISTANCING LANGUAGE. THIS ALLOWS
THEM TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THE ACTION.
FOR EXAMPLE, "I CRASHED MY CAR" BECOMES
"I CRASHED THE CAR"
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