Peter Collett
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 1 Aug
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They are much more accurate than when they go on the basis of their gut feelings.
There's a whole lot of interesting things about lying, not least the fact that if you ask people how good they are at detecting liars, most people consider themselves to be above average, but the majority of people are no better than chance.
In other words,
People are about as good as throwing a dice when it comes to detecting other people's lies.
First of all, men get it wrong, by and large.
But your initial question, how can you tell if somebody's got an interest in you,
that has a lot to do with gaze patterns.
And one of the things that happens in a romantic encounter, when two people are, as it were, moving towards each other, one of the ways in which women, and not men, one of the ways in which women
indicate their interest in men is by providing what I call an approach tell.
In other words, it's permission to make the next move.
And as Darwin said, sex is always a matter of female choice.
So what's the tell?
The tell is a slightly prolonged look, possibly with the eyes slightly widened, possibly over the shoulder, which is a very sexy way of doing it.
uh possibly with the lips slightly parted but it's infinitesimally long longer than one of those mistaken glances one gets when somebody catches your eye and then they break off but we're pretty sensitive to that and that as you've
indicated is often an indication, it's often a clue to the fact that the person has some residual preparatory interest in taking things further.
Yes, but with the proviso that when it comes to heterosexual interactions and courtship and flirtation, it's the women that call the shots.
Men think they do, but in this regard, as so many others, they're completely mistaken.
It's a quite a youthful gesture actually, this shock horror, as you've described it, you know, hands up, eyebrows raised, eyes opened, jaw dropped.
You know, there will be occasions when it's a genuine reaction to something that you've said or you've seen somebody else say.
But equally, there will be times when it's a synthetic gesture designed to communicate something to you and one that doesn't really reflect the potency of the signal itself.
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