How Our Bodies Tell When We Are Lying

There are obvious ways to tell if someone is lying to you. Then there is the less obvious one. I covered some of these in my previous article. "How to Tell if It is a Big Fat Lie."

There are other tell-tale signs that someone is lying to you. We have all heard of it. It is called Body Language. Sometimes it is easier to read a person by their physical body language than by what comes out of their mouths.

When someone is lying to you they will try to put distance between you. They may put a book or a drinking glass between you because they are uncomfortable with lying to you. They don't want to look you in the eye.

If someone is telling you, "This is the honest truth, " while shaking their head no, they are lying.

A liar may be very expansive in their body language. They may wave their arms and become very dramatic. Their voice may raise and they will talk rapidly and become very animated.

Professional liars will look you straight in the eye and profess their truth. They will sometimes almost try to stare you down. This is to make sure that you know they are telling you the truth. It is an intimidation tactic.

The more you study people the more you will be able to tell if they are telling you the truth. You will be able to tell especially with people you know or ones in your family. You can become familiar with their patterns.

Sometimes it can be very difficult to tell especially if you live with pathological liars. They become very good and adept at their lie telling. You have to become very aware and practiced at reading people. You may decide it isn't worth the effort if you can't trust someone to tell you the truth.

If you have two liars together, they feed off of each other. Sometimes they will tell lies just to entertain themselves, and they hope they are entertaining you also. One liar will try to outdo the other one.

For example:
One arm waving, liar may tell you that the snow was as tall as the treetops, while the next liar will expound on the height of the snow which was taller than the telephone poles. This may continue on as you look from one to the other. They will actually get angry because the other one's lies may be more impressive than theirs.