Honestly, lying eyes are a myth: No link between eye movements and telling the truth, researchers claim

Honestly, lying eyes are a myth: No link between eye movements and telling the truth, researchers claim

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 21:18 GMT, 11 July 2012 | UPDATED: 21:22 GMT, 11 July 2012

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For decades, experts have been convinced that eye movements reveal when someone is lying.

Psychologists believed that looking up to the left indicated honesty, while looking up to the right signalled a lie.

But there is in fact no link between lying and eye movements, according to research.
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Scientists filmed the eye movements of a group of volunteers as they told the truth or lied.

A second group watched the films and tried to detect the lies by watching the eye movements.
FIVE SIGNS OF A LIAR

Professor Wiseman outlined five better ways to spot a liar:

Me, myself I: Liars make up stories that never actually happened, and so tend to reduce the number of times they refer to themselves. Look out for any sudden drop in words like me, mine and I.

Shifty: Lying is difficult and people tend not to move around when they are concentrating on something. Be wary if a person suddenly becomes very still.

Umm ... err: Liars are far more hesitant than truth tellers and tend to stumble over their words. Listen out for tell-tale umms and errs.

Timing: Liars often have to think about what they are going to say before they speak. Be suspicious if someone suddenly pauses before starting to answer a question.

Token gesture: Liars tend to move their hands around more than truth tellers. Be wary if someone suddenly starts covering up their mouth or touching their hair as they chat.

Volunteers could not tell who was telling the truth and who was lying from their eye movements.

Psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, said: 'The results of the first study revealed no relationship between lying and eye movements.

'The second showed that telling people about the claims made by NLP practitioners did not improve their lie detection skills.'

A follow-up study involved analysing videos of high-profile press conferences in which people appealed for help in finding missing relatives, or claimed to have been victims of crime.

While some were telling the truth, others turned out to be lying.

Again, there was no evidence of a correlation between lying and eye movements.

Co-author Dr Caroline Watt, from the University of Edinburgh, said: 'A large percentage of the public believes that certain eye movements are a sign of lying, and this idea is even taught in organisational training courses.

'Our research provides no support for the idea and so suggests that it is time to abandon this approach to detecting deceit.”

JFK

Thnks for this interesting article.

"Umm ... err: Liars are far more hesitant than truth tellers and tend to stumble over their words. Listen out for tell-tale umms and errs."

So that's all of T9 then!

Angelique wrote:JFK

Thnks for this interesting article.

"Umm ... err: Liars are far more hesitant than truth tellers and tend to stumble over their words. Listen out for tell-tale umms and errs."

So that's all of T9 then!

kate the most!!!!! she alwayssays you know and erm and umm