Experts agree you can tell so much about a person’s truthfulness by looking for any eye body language signs of lying. Here are the signs that should alarm you about the possibility of conversing or interacting with a liar:Eye Body Language Sign # 1: Inability To Make Eye ContactIf someone is not willing to tell you the truth about a particular story, you’ll find them incapable of looking at you directly in the eye. Since people are often raised with the idea of honesty being the best policy, it is therefore against an individual’s nature to make up lies. Hence, that is where the level of agitation or uneasiness comes in, which is the knowledge that they are doing something “wrong”. Avoiding eye contact is recognized as a defense mechanism to avoid confrontation about a lie being told.Eye Body Language Sign # 2: Constant Eye MotionYou might not be able to detect it, but liars often move their eyes up and then left. What is its significance to lying, you might ask? Experts believe that it is a sign that a person is trying to make up stories or scenarios in their mind. If the person is telling the truth, then they probably won’t have problems relating the details of a given situation. But if they are lying, they need to assess what kind of statement they have to make that would appear logical. Eye Body Language Sign # 3: Uncharacteristic BlinkingRapid eye movement is another tell-tale sign of lying. Blinking is a natural body process; but when this activity becomes more often and appears unnatural, then it should be a hint that that person is trying to avoid detection.Now that you know the 3 eye body language signs of lying, you can “see through” the truthfulness in their words. So please put this information to good use.
Want to know how to detect lies by reading eye body language? In this article, I’ll reveal some extraordinary tips on how to catch a liar simply by interpreting the body language signs given by the eyes.
Reading eye body language may not be 100% accurate all the time. But by combining your interpretation of other nonverbal signals with their eye movements, you’ll come up with reliable data supporting your assertions.
When a person avoids making eye contact, he may be lying. However, some liars deliberately look you straight in the eye and maintain it because they don’t want to be seen as ‘hiding something.’
When a person is lying, he may be forcing himself to smile. A forced smile involves movement of the mouth only. A natural smile involves movement of the cheeks, eyes, nose and forehead. In a genuine smile, the eyes are smaller and squinted.
Here’s a rather unique technique to detect lies by reading eye body language.
If you ask a question to a right-handed person, and he looks to the left in an upward direction, that means he is thinking or ‘visually constructing’ an image in his mind. If he looks to the right in an upward direction, he is recalling or ‘visually remembering’ something that actually happened.
So let’s say you ask him, “Where were you when the child fell down?” If he looks up to the left, he might be making up a story to cover the real incident. If he looks up to the right, he might be recalling what actually happened (in reality).
This method may help you determine if you want to accept their explanation or not, while also taking into account other factors.
Note that the meaning of these eye directions would have the reverse interpretation for a left-handed person.
Remember also that you should not solely rely on reading eye body language to detect lies. It’s better if you combine it with your assessment of other body language signals for a more accurate interpretation.
