Between lies and truth

Last night when I was watching a tv show, I was so amazed by the fact that people can tell liar by just looking at the other's face/gesture. So, being curious, I then went to search online to get more details about how to tell between lies and truth. And surprisingly, I found out that I always do all these "lies-signals" whenever I had to lie about something. Well, we all did lie before, didn't we...

So, just to share, these are the things that I found out. And knowing these "signals" might also be useful for us to prevent ourself from being cheated in the future...


FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

Fake happiness

1. Only muscles surrounding the mouth are used.
2. Muscles at other parts of the face (i.e. eyes, forehead, cheeks) are not involved
3. Often used for polite smiles, forced smiles.
   

Natural Smile

1. Many muscles move INVOLUNTARILY
2. Cheeks and jaw moves up
3. nose may wrinkles
4. Eyes become squished and produce crow-feet.

BODY GESTRURE

Body language of liars

1. Avoiding eye contact
2. Sudden/excessive hand touching/scratching nose, mouth, neck, throat.
3. Emotion displayed is delayed/stay extra-longer than it normally is.
4. Expression does not fit words (i.e. face looks disgusted but lips say "i love you")
5. Expression only involves muscles around mouth area. Naturally, expression that is honest involves more facial muscles (like eyes, forehead, cheeks)
6. A guilty person gets defensive. An innocent person will often go on the offensive.
7. Not making direct statement. Instead they imply answers.
8. unnecessarily detailed-explanations.
9. If you detect someone is lying, try to change the topic. If you notice that he/she looks more relief, then that might be the sign that he/she is lying. Someone who is not guilty will often look confused when you change the subject.
   
10. Pupils dilate.
11. After he/she explain about something and when ur turns to talk has come, paused momentarily. If she/he suddenly looks uncomfortable during the paused, that might be a bad sign.