The Truth Behind The Lies

“Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, eighty percent of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words” (Bull). When one learns how to read the body, it becomes easier to notice if lies are being told. People tell lies all the time. Whether or not someone is being truthful can be decided solely based on their body language.

Imagine being able to tell when these people were telling lies? Its not as hard as one might think. Its all about being able to listen to more than just the words coming out of their mouth, but noticing their body language as well. As the quote previously stated suggests, most of the information collected from a conversation comes from reading the body, not the words. There are many different ways to tell if people are lying or not. From the head down to the feet there are signs all over the place, they’re just not always so easy to detect.

Starting with the very top of the body, the head. “ As the home of our brains and sensation centers (ears, nose, mouth, eyes), the head can have “a mind of its own” when our concentration is on other things—like keeping a story straight. This means that we’re prone to nod “Yes” even as we’re mouthing the word “No,” or vice versa” ("body"). There are so many examples of this in places on might not even expect to find them. This is one of the easiest way to notice if one is being lied to. People who haven't rehearsed the lies will only try to focus on the words being said, not how their body is moving, including their head. A very clear example of this was a recent interview with the famous baseball player Alex Rodriguez. When asked if he was using steroids he said no but clearly s...

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...ie? Here’s an idea, they do it because they are not getting caught. If people learned to read body language using what was listed above more people would get caught and stop telling these lies. Who knows, maybe it would go from sixty percent of people lying to thirty percent. It has been said before that on average people tell one lie per day, maybe that could all change to one per week if people learned how tell when people are lying. Being able to detect lies would make the world a better place in a way.

Works Cited

"body." liespotting. N.p.. Web. 14 Feb 2014. .

pease, allan. The Definitive Book of Body Language. New York, New York: A Division of Random House Inc., 2004. eBook.