Name: Surprising Ways You Can Tell If Someone Is Lying
Uploaded: 2018-06-06T08:38:04.000Z
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Most of us wish we knew a way to tell when someone is giving us a huge pile of B.S.

There are actually many ways to tell if someone is lying or not, and here are some of the

In other words, get ready to never trust another human being again.

One huge clue that someone may be feeding you a lie is if they stare at you intensely.

According to behavioral analyst Dr. Lillian Glass and her book, The Body Language of Liars,

what usually happens with liars is they break eye contact.

However, true sociopaths do their best to avoid that in an attempt to control and manipulate

A good example of this is infamous fraudster Bernie Madoff, who notoriously stared at his

victims for a long time while he was ripping them off.

It could be argued that this staring is almost a form of hypnosis.

The best way to combat it: fingers to the eyes.

For some reason, when people lie, they tend to cover their pie holes.

According to Glass, when adults cover their mouths, it means they're not revealing everything

and are literally "closing off communication."

Or, in other words, they're trying to hide something by hiding their mouths.

A person's head motions can be used to sniff out their lies.

When a person shakes their head yes or no at the same time as when they speak, you can

pretty much rely on what that person says.

However, if the shake comes after, you might just have found yourself a liar.

So keep an eye out for those noggin gyrations, lest you get taken for a fool.

If all that isn't enough, you might want to take a gander at a person's tootsies to tell

According to the folks at Psychology Today, liars tend to point their feet towards the

This signifies a physical and psychological eagerness to make a hasty escape from their

When in conversation, you may want to pay attention to what sounds the person makes

According to Spy the Lie, written by former CIA agents, liars clear their throats before

they spout out a big whopper for two reasons.

One, it's a nonverbal way of saying, "I swear to God …" Two, they feel a need to lie,

which causes a physiological reaction in them, like anxiety or mouth and throat dryness.

Ever ask someone a question and they give you way more info than you asked for?

It's because they're not giving you the full truth.

In a way, they're hoping to wear you down by yammering on and on about everything except

By seeming completely open and giving you everything except an actual answer, liars

hope you'll forget the question you asked in the first place.

If a liar is so experienced that they can keep lying over and over again, it actually

becomes easier to spot them as the big fibbers they are.

According to Entrepreneur, there's a secret military trick used to weed out liars: asking

the same question three times, in three different ways.

If you get the same rehearsed word-for-word answer each time, watch out.

You might be dealing with a liar who thinks following a script will let them get away

If they give the same answer but it sounds more natural, and less scripted, with some

variation, then they're probably for real.

It's when they start to sound like a politician that you can trust them like you would a politician.

For some reason, when people are lying, they become obsessed with how they look.

According to Spy the Lie, grooming oneself is a way to deal with the anxiety of lying.

And if sweat is involved, forget about it.

It should be noted that sweat itself doesn't mean a person is spreading disinformation.

However, if that person keeps wiping the sweat away, you might have a full-blown liar on

Although fidgeting may be a telltale sign, it turns out if a person's too stiff, you

may want to grab the fire extinguisher, because their pants just caught ablaze.

As Glass explains, when people start getting rigid, that's a sign they're hiding something.

Going stiff is the body preparing for a fight, something it wouldn't need to do if there

Standing super-still is overcompensating for trying not to fidget too much.

"Because you can take it from me the truth… it's overrated."

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