someone told me you can tell a person is lying because their eyes move to one side of their sockets because they are searching that side of the brain to make up something but if they are telling the truth then their eyes got to the other side? if youve heard this which side is which?
2006-08-17 02:29:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
If they look up to their left side they're telling the truth.
To the right they're fibbing.
2006-08-17 02:35:40 · answer #1 · answered by J.D. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies.php..............here is a section on just that subject...it appears that many law enforcement and FBI agents use this technique also...
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Eye Direction and Lying
Eye Movement and Direction and How it Can Reveal the Truth or a Lie
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This is a continuation of our previous article " Detecting Lies". Many comments by our visitors have asked about how eye direction can indicate the presence of a lie.
So can the direction a person's eyes reveal whether or not they are making a truthful statement? Short answer: sort of. But, it isn't as simple as some recent television shows or movies make it seem. In these shows a detective will deduce a person is being untruthful simply because they looked to the left or right while making a statement.
In reality, it would be foolish to make such a snap judgment without further investigation... but the technique does have some merit. So, here it is... read, ponder and test it on your friends and family to see how reliable it is for yourself.
Visual Accessing Cues
The first time "Visual Accessing Cues" were discussed (at least to my knowledge), was by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in their book "Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) " From their experiments this is what they found:
When asked a question a "normally organized" right-handed person looks (from your viewpoint, looking at them):
Up and to the Left
Indicates: Visually Constructed Images (Vc)
If you asked someone to "Imagine a purple buffalo", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Visually Constructed" a purple buffalo in their mind.
Up and to the Right
Indicates: Visually Remembered Images (Vr)
If you asked someone to "What color was the first house you lived in?", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they "Visually Remembered" the color of their
2006-08-17 10:10:59 · answer #2 · answered by MotherKittyKat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is incorrect. There are a lot of ways to tell if people are lying. I have a knack for it, although I sometimes act gullible so people don't know that I know they're not telling the truth.
First of all, unless they're a pretty good liar (like me), they may not look directly at you. Second of all, they may blush from increased heartrate. If you have a hand on them or something, you may feel their body heat go up and their pulse quicken, but this can also be from any heightened emotion.
Also, you need to think about whether their answer seems like something they would have done or makes logical sense. If it doesn't, they're probably lying.
2006-08-17 09:36:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anneth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read of several traits that people use to detect lying. In honest studies, not just popular press telling of something in a study, they usually end up saying that no physical method is fool-proof. There are people who draw on a nuanced range of body language that can be quite good at detecting liars, but even they miss some. This is akin to the reasons why polygraphs are not permitted as convicting evidence in court trials--innocent sometimes look guilty and guilty sometimes look innocent. Still, there are methods that do detect lies--much of the time.
Perhaps the blifaloo site is along the lines you are looking.
2006-08-17 09:46:01 · answer #4 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't base 100% of your truth-telling on when people look anywhere. Though some of this may seem to be based in fact, there are a great many people who can lie "straight-faced" and I'm sure I'm not the only person in the world who is distracted by almost everything that happens in the background.
2006-08-17 09:39:30 · answer #5 · answered by steele_feher 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If someone is lying and looking away then it's probably to avoid eye contact not to think, anyone good at lying or if they feel comfortable with their lie is going to look you straight in the eye.
2006-08-17 09:37:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically I have heard that if someone is not being truthful with you they will not be able to look at you in the eye, or their eyes "dart around" (like someone had suggested to you) they are "searching" for something to say. . . If they had the lie totally planned out. . . supposedly their suspicious body language will give them away.
2006-08-17 09:36:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
left side is logic, right side is creative memory. so if you ask a person a question, they will generally look to the left when telling the truth (drawing on logic) and look to the right when lying (using their creative side to make up the answer). even more, when the "liar" is looking to the right, if they are REALLY making up big time porky-pies, they will also look UP...and to the right!
2006-08-17 09:43:36 · answer #8 · answered by lisa s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better keep your eyes open while sleeping and ask someone to watch the sequence. Before that pls give that person a brief idea of your theory.
2006-08-17 09:59:15 · answer #9 · answered by Hadi M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just tried looking into the mirror and lying, my eyes didnt move
2006-08-17 09:41:32 · answer #10 · answered by Sammy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋