Caught in a lie?

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I found an interesting webpage on how to catch a liar by watching there eye movements. I thought this would be interesting to learn about. The website explains what direction if the eyes move a certain way (up and to the left would be making up facts) and what they might be thinking at the time. They said that it isn't a science but it is a good indicator of honesty. I know that this could be useful when questioning a witness or suspect to tell if they are actually lying about what happened. I am interested in body language and other forms of indicating what someone is feeling. Here is the website that I found and maybe you can learn by watching someone's eye movement if they are lying!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2FVXYo/www.mondovista.com/liar.html

 

Not only can a person watch someone's eyes there is research on body language and how they are feeling during a conversation, or according to their body language, are they telling the truth, not just in their eyes. Most people do have to get a baseline when trying to figure out how someone is feeling, but our bodies will do certain things depending on how we are thinking and feeling at the time. This is a good way for an investigator to possible get a feel for the person they are questioning or interrogating. Here is an article by a well known body language expert Tonya Reiman.

http://www.tonyareiman.com/articles/body_language

 

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That was such an interesting read! As the website was explaining the different directions eyes move as a person thinks about different things, I noticed how true it actually was! I never really thought there was any sort of order, but now I realize it's quite common to look one way when you're thinking about a specific thing.

I find body language to be so fascinating because most of the time, we don't realize what we're doing and what information we're conveying to the world. It could be anything from if we're lying to our feelings about a person.

Reading this article made me think of a tv show called "Lie to Me". It focuses on a man who is very adept at reading the tiniest pieces of body language to tell if someone is lying, stressed, or telling the truth. I'm not sure how much of it is factual, but it's very entertaining and provides another outlook on criminal investigation.

This is a video I found that gives some great examples of body language when someone is lying. It's very interesting to view:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXRQyJbMhkA

It varies from person to person sometimes it opposite so then you would need to establish a baseline to then determine which way it is for them. I have heard of interrogation techniques like this but they also figure out if the person is visually,sound, or touch oriented by asking them to recall details and seeing wat they say. After that they will use it against them , if someone was audiorty oriented the detective would tap on the table to annoy them to get them to talk, if they were touch they would move there chair with there foot , visually the detective would become fidgety. I wonder how truth syrums work and when they use those. Anyways I believe there is no universal body language but a general concept that varies from person to person so the key is to get a base line.

That was a really interesting article. I have heard about the direction of eye movements in correlation with lying before but this website set things up really well. Before, I was never sure it they were telling me the direction of the eyes from my perspective or the person telling the lies. When I was reading this I would try and test it on myself but that got to be a little difficult. It would be hard to train yourself to shift your eyes in a way that makes it seem like you are telling the truth.
When I looked at a site like this before I tried to test this on people I saw on TV. It didn’t work too well because it’s really kind of hard to watch for such sudden and small changes.
Something else that I found really interesting about this article was that when you are talking to someone who is lying and you change the subject, they appreciate the change because they can relax. But when you do that with a person who is telling the truth, they get upset and confused and want to go back to explaining why they are innocent. I’d never thought of this before, but it’s so true. That’s how I would feel in both of those circumstances at least.

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