Deception Tips Podcast

Deception Tip 101: Learn to recognize the signs of deception and remember to watch for clusters of behavior. Liars always display more than one sign.

Deception Tip 100: Liars try to sound smarter, and more credible, than they actually are. Trip them up by using their own jargon against them.

Deception Tip 99: It can be helpful to agree with liars on little things. If they think they fooled you, they may let their guard down.

Deception Tip 98: When dealing with pathological liars, lies will look normal and truths may look like lies. This is because they feel more comfortable telling lies than truths.

Deception Tip 97:     Keep liars talking by identifying with their feelings then reflecting it back to them with a question.

Deception Tip 96: Liars often look for approval from others. Watch for signs of social influence such as looking around before giving an answer.

Deception Tip 95: Take care not to be overconfident in your lie spotting ability. Liars may play on that confidence and use your power against you.

Deception Tip 94: Pathological liars may not display any leakage because they are so accustomed to lying. What’s more is that their truths may show more leakage than a lie.

Deception Tip 93: Real memories are recorded using all senses. Whereas lies are mainly visual. Question liars by asking about how something smelled, felt, sounded, tasted, et cetera.

Deception Tip 92: Offer a way of escape, or a route of less punishment, if they tell you the truth. People are motivated to avoid negative outcomes.

Deception Tip 91: Ask for information when people are hungry. Hunger can lead to impatience and impulsive responses, which may be more truthful.

Deception Tip 90: When questioning someone, purposefully get some facts wrong, or diminish their pride. This will tempt them to correct you and reveal their story.

Deception Tip 89: Liars often forgo the use of regulators, meaning they talk without restraint, interrupt, miss punctuation, and generally disobey the rules of conversation.

Deception Tip 88: When calling out a lie, ask yourself whether or not the truth really matters in that situation.

Deception Tip 87: Display rules are taught and can produce harmless lies compared to malicious lies. Example: receiving an unwanted present.

Deception Tip 86: Remember conceal and falsify. Emotions are harder to falsify and easier to conceal. Whereas, body language is harder to conceal and easier to falsify.

Deception Tip :85 Blushing means that something uncomfortable, or private, has been revealed about someone. It doesn’t always indicate deception.

Deception Tip 84: Always try to use language that relates to the person with whom you are speaking. They will be more apt to tell you the truth if they believe they relate to you.

Deception Tip 83: Be precise in your questioning. Liars love to find loopholes and hidden meanings in your questions.

Deception Tip 82: Get a liar to talk by starting sentences with the word “you” and ending them with suggestions or questions.

Deception Tip 81: A good way to train yourself to be more observant towards body language is to watch television on mute.

Deception Tip 80: Smiles are very prevalent in lies. Pay close attention to the symmetricality of the smile, as asymmetrical smiles may be deceptive.

Deception Tip 79: Remember that body language is always truthful, and words can be deceptive. Always, believe body language.

Deception Tip 78: Be careful to listen to the entire story, as words can often have more than one meaning. Use context to determine whether or not they are being deceptive.

Deception Tip 77: Rather than becoming confrontational, introverted people show disagreement by controlling a different, self-invented, situation.

Deception Tip 76: When telling a lie, the liar may cover his or her mouth, usually with a hand or fingers, as if to unconsciously prevent the lie.

Deception Tip 75: Steepling fingers mean confidence. Liars may display this when they believe they have fooled the target.

Deception Tip 74: Watch, and listen, for sighs, as they often come before heavy contemplation of an answer.

Deception Tip 73: Obviously when someone leans away they are resistant, or uninterested. When someone leans towards they are interested, or invested, in the situation.

Deception Tip 72: Be mindful of a person’s bodily axis. The direction in which they tilt can tell you how open they are to the current situation.

Deception Tip 71: When confronting someone, if they present their palms up as if offering something they may be feeling guilty. Almost like you caught them in their lie.

Deception Tip 70: Symmetrical expressions are associated with telling the truth, as they are usually indicative of spontaneous emotional expressions.

Deception Tip 69: When the target becomes silent, the liar’s comfort level goes from bad to worse. Most of the time, the liar will continue to speak to fill the gap.

Deception Tip 68: Overly stressed liars may inhale regularly and then force their exhale, as if the lungs are being forcibly contracted.

Deception Tip 67: A liar’s jaw may often tremble, or slightly tremor, when they are struggling to keep up with their lie.

Deception Tip 66: Breathing regularly and periodically taking a deep breath followed by a long slow exhale is done to pacify liars.

Deception Tip 65: Liars prefer to conceal the truth rather than coming up with an entirely new story.

Deception Tip 64: In some cases, liars may rephrase the question and then answer it. This is done to give them more time to think about their lie.

Deception Tip 63: Liars may sometimes breathe in through the nose and out through extended lips like those of a chimpanzee.

Deception Tip 62: Some liars often say their statements twice with their voice rising the second time around.

Deception Tip 61: Liars will often hold their breath as the target guesses the possible answers. Then exhale the instant the target guesses correctly.

Deception Tip 60: Confident people tend to dominate the space they occupy, whereas liars take up the least amount of space possible.

Deception Tip 59: Some people tend to pick up their legs and sit with them on the chair when they are being deceptive.

Deception Tip 58: When detecting deception, watch the Adam’s apple. It may jump or move irregularly when someone is lying.

Deception Tip 57: Asymmetrical facial expressions are associated with deception and are usually indicative of non-spontaneous, or voluntary, emotional expression.

Deception Tip 56: Lairs may lock their ankles together and tuck their feet back under the chair, combining the “X” with backing away.

Deception Tip 55: Behaviors such as nail biting, cuticle picking, or other hand grooming gestures are indicative of tension and possibly deception.

Deception Tip 54: People who attempt to conceal information often breathe more rapidly, taking a series of shallow breaths followed by a longer, deep, breath after telling the lie.

Deception Tip 53: A liar’s mouth usually becomes very dry causing their voice to crack and stutter.