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Find a Liar - Body Language Manual

Body Language of Lies

- Physical expression will be limited and sti, with few arm and hand movements!and, arm and leg movement are toward their own body the liar ta"es up less

space

- # person who is lying to you will avoid ma"ing eye contact

- !ands touching their face, throat $ mouth %ouching or scratching the nose or

behind their ear &ot li"ely to touch his chest'heart with an open hand

(motional )estures $ *ontradiction

- %iming and duration of emotional gestures and emotions are o a normal pace

 %he display of emotion is delayed, stays longer it would naturally, then stops

suddenly

- %iming is o between emotions gestures'expressions and words (xample+

omeone says . love it/ when receiving a gift and then smile after ma"ing that

statement, rather than at the same time the statement is made

- )estures'expressions don0t match the verbal statement, such as frowning whensaying 1. love you2

- (xpressions are limited to mouth movements when someone is fa"ing emotions

3li"e happy, surprised, sad, awe, instead of the whole face For example4 when

someone smiles naturally their whole face is involved+ 5aw'chee" movement, eyes

and forehead push down, etc

6isual #ccessing *ues 3eye movement7

8p and to the Left 3indicates 6isually *onstructed .mages, #9# 6c7

.f you as"ed someone to .magine a purple bualo, this would be the direction their

eyes moved in while thin"ing about the :uestion as they 6isually *onstructed a

purple bualo in their mind

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8p and to the ;ight 3indicates 6isually ;emembered .mages, #9# 6r7

.f you as"ed someone to , this would

be the direction their eyes moved in while thin"ing about the :uestion as they

6isually ;emembered the color of their childhood home

 %o the Left 3indicates #uditory *onstructed, #9# #c7

.f you as"ed someone to %ry and create the highest the sound of the pitch possible

in your head, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thin"ing about

the :uestion as they #uditorily *onstructed this this sound that they have never

heard of

 %o the ;ight 3indicates #uditory ;emembered, #9# #r7

.f you as"ed someone to ;emember what their mother?s voice sounds li"e , this

would be the direction their eyes moved in while thin"ing about the :uestion as

they #uditorily ;emembered this sound

@own and to the Left 3indicates .nternal @ialogue, #9# #i7

 %his is the direction of someone eyes as they tal" to themselves

peech Patterns

6erbal *ontext and *ontent+

- # liar will use your words to ma"e answer a :uestion 2 %he liar answers, 1&o, . did not eat the last coo"ie2

- # statement with a contraction is more li"ely to be truthful+ 1 . didn?t do it2 instead

of 1. did not do it2

- Liars sometimes avoid lying by not ma"ing direct statements %hey imply

answers instead of denying something directly

- %he guilty person may spea" more than natural, adding unnecessary details to

convince you they are not comfortable with silence or pauses in the conversation

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- # liar may leave out pronouns and spea" in a monotonous tone