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6 Ways to Tell Whether Someone is Lying Just By His / Her Words & Body Language

2019-04-08 , 2:00 am

1. Answering more than the question

So, you ask your friend whether he has taken his lunch. After saying yes, he spoke about what he has eaten, what time he went for his lunch and how much it cost.

If so, he might be lying: the rationale behind this is that he’s already worried that you know he’s lying, so he provided more information to prove that he isn’t. Why need to prove something that isn’t even the case, right?

2. Be defensive even before you say anything

When you ask your boyfriend where he’s been yesterday, he immediately got angry, answered and then shot back a question: “WHY DO YOU ALWAYS ASK!?” It’s an innocent question but it becomes a catalyst for him to be defensive for no apparent reason. When that occurs, be wary.

3. He’ll touch his face or anything around him more often

What does one do when he’s lying? He’s trying to focus on other things! It’s apparently a way for him to stop lying subconsciously, so when he might be spouting nonsense, he is also doing nonsense things, much like how a presenter will have body language that correlates with his speech. Nice touch, indeed.

4. Things won’t make sense but he’ll make them make sense when it still doesn’t

Doesn’t that point itself aptly indicates how one would talk? He’ll ram his way in with things that don’t make sense, and won’t let you ask any further questions: nonsense, by itself, isn’t a lie, so he’ll use that to cover the real lie.

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5. He’ll answer in complete, long sentences

Maybe you’ve just asked whether your friend has taken lunch. A “yes” or “no” would suffice. But he’ll give a ridiculously long answer that isn’t exactly socially norm: “Yes, I’ve taken my lunch.” Too formal, too polite, too suspicious.

6. They use less contractions

This is pretty damn interesting! Contractions are basically shortened sentences, like “I’ve eaten” instead of “I have eaten”. Typical conversation, especially a dialogue between two friends, comprise more contractions than you can imagine as to some extent, it makes the conversation concise and friendly. But when one seldom or even not uses contractions altogether, he’s either a robot or he’s lying.

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