Peter Collett
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first heard Aug 2026
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And I now make a special point of trying to avoid doing it.
Why?
Because I think that even if they're not consciously acknowledging what I'm doing,
Other people, important people, as it were, may be able to read the fact that I'm deferring to them, that I'm aware of their position vis-a-vis me.
Okay.
What about patterns of gaze?
You share that opinion with the majority of people, that if people don't look at you, there's a higher probability that they're lying.
The other conclusion that people draw is that if somebody is fidgeting, can't sit still, then they're probably lying too.
Both of these turn out to be incorrect for very good reasons.
When somebody is lying to you, they unconsciously or consciously know that there's this assumption around about gaze patterns.
If I don't look at this person, he or she's gonna think I'm lying.
So what they do is they overreact by looking at you more.
When it comes to fidgeting, the reason why people fidget less, in fact,
some liars become almost frozen in their demeanor.
The reason for that is they're doing their utmost to ensure that they don't give you any information about their inner state at all.
So those are the two ways in which people draw the wrong conclusions about the signals associated with lying.
The interesting remark you've made about
Well, I get a gut feeling about it.
Now, there's actually an interesting study where they contrasted people trying to detect if others had told them the truth or lied to them on the basis of either gut feelings or analysis of the other person's behavior.
And what they found is that when people are directed to actually look at the tells,
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