When you are trying to grab a liar, it’s easy to look for the mistaken signals.  Vocal and verbal clues are more dependable than body language.  Very few people are good at dotting liars, in fact, most are awful.  People think liars keep away from eye contact and keep calm in order to present what they hope is an honest manner.  We may be enticed to look for clues in body language, but studies show vocal and verbal clues are more dependable than visual ones.

Listen to see if there are long silence between the questions you ask and the answers.  An unnaturally long gap means a person is ‘thinking up’, not remembering a response.  Liars also use short sentences.  As far as visual indicators go, a lack of moment can be a hint to a lack of truthfulness.  Someone who does not have crow’s feet around the eyes when they laugh does not find you funny.

Sometimes if you cover the lower part of a face, the upper parts come into sight as though it could be wearing any expression.  A fake smile can be an pointer of anger, so be warned.  Tips: always look at the eyes.  When someone is lying, they may touch their face more than usual.

When her brain thinks one thing and her mouth says another, her body gives up the tattletale signs of lying.

There is one lying signal even a practiced liar can’t control.  Check for dilated pupils.  It is a natural side-effect when the sympathetic nervous system – you fight or flight response - kicks in under pressure.  Those pools of darkness at the centre of her eyes will spread as she absolute the lie.

The physiological pressure of lying increases peristalsis, or the restriction of esophageal muscles that are involved in swallowing.  Stress also slows the making of saliva, there by leaving a unexpected dry mouth.  Watch whether she is impulsively licking her lips before speaking or swallowing vigorously.

Her mitts articulate her feelings in chat, so a liar will always be apt to hide her hands, either under her armpits or behind her back. But if she’s thought through her lie in advance, she’ll keep her hands still – strangely hanging at her sides or resting flat on a table.

A moment of bend in her vocal tone can give up her lie.  Listen for long midsentence pauses, a disconnected burst of words or a sudden pipe up or even a rise or drop in pitch.  This is usually caused by the trouble that she’ll have breathing normally when her verves are in overdrive.

Most people alternative to oral gymnastics to stay away from an outright lie. She might answer the question with a question to stall for time, or suddenly suffer selective memory. Once she’s fibbed a little, she’ll fib a lot, so press her for specifics and see if she wriggles.

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