The Lie

"As a professional deception Management person (I teach in college now for 10 years!) I can say these methods of detecting lies are roughly correct but they lack any realusability," David Camp commented on blifaloo.

Detecting deception is no easy task.

Some people are good liars. Some people are pathological liars. Some people rehearse their story over and over so it comes naturally.

Typically most people can't figure out truth vs. lie more than 55% of the time, a recent research concluded.

The answer is that we're looking at the wrong things. I've just found out that eye contact isn't all that relevant in determining whether most people are lying or telling the truth.

A powerful strategy to improve odds of detecting deception is this: liars must contruct their stories in chronilogical order. People who tell the truth will be all over the place. So ask the person what happened in reverse chronological order. The liar won't be able to do it most of the time.