How To Spot The Lies?

Now I've been studying about understanding body languages and face reading from the works of Barbara Roberts and Dr. David Snyder for a while now. Ever since I started learning, my entire outlook towards people have changed. I can know so much about the person by just observing. Here is a little share of it.

Lying verbally might be easy but while one is lying his/her body always shows indications that it is a lie. "It's just how each one of us are hardwired", in the words of Dr. David Snyder. So even though the person lies, his or her body cannot lie.

1. The Eyes: Whenever checking for the lies, look at the person's eyes. The person will be looking to his right and up and then again left up very frequently. We look to our right to access information and to our left to access past incidents or memories. A fluctuating eye from right to left is usually lying or making up stories. Some even have the tendencies of looking away from you.

2. Voice and Rythm of Talking: Usually the person's voice gets squeaky and the Rythm he talks in becomes faster. This one though might not work in the cases where the person has had alot of time to compose his lie. Just remembered the more time you give the person, the more precisely and in perfection can he lie.

3. Creating Distance and Barrier: A guilty person usually tries to move away from you while lying. He might increase his physical distance with you. Or might try to put something between the both of you which he might do very unconsciously but you need to look for it. For example, if he covers his face with his hand or if he picks up something and places it in between the both of you or if he just walks away a couple of steps from you.

4. Crossing: If the person doesn't usually sit With his/her legs crossed and does it only while you've asked for clarity, know it that he's lying. Crossing of arms and crossing of legs as well as covering the face in that posture is a big indicator, straight away that the person is lying. Some times even when they're standing they might cross their feet.

5. Feet: The feet are another big indicator of interest, disinterests, lies and truths. We usually look towards the face of a person but make sure you take a nice look at the person's feet as well. If the feet point towards you while talking, it's probable that the person is taking lots of interest in the conversation you both are having. But if the feet point towards the other direction or one foot in and one foot out, that means he might not be wanting to be a part of the conversation. This is probable in many cases. It's also useful to pick a lie when you see the person's feet turn when you've asked the question.

6. Over Reacting and Dramatic: Reactions such as these- "How could you think I would do that?"/ "Don't you trust me?"/ "I swear on God" are usually huge give outs of the person lying. The person guilty also sometimes reacts in an overly dramatic way which is a clear indicator that the person is lying.

Well, these are all the things that might help you pick the lies you're being told but it is very important to know how the person functions normaly first, to understand whether he's lying, i.e., understand his base line, his normal behavior. Then try to fit the points given and see if it falls under his normal behavior, in which case the point would be invalid for him or weather he's actually being dramatic or crossing his legs out of nowhere. Keep in mind that these indicators work till 5seconds before and after the person speaks.