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MENTAL HEALTH
How to Tell if Someone Is Lying to You, According to Experts
8 MINUTE READ
BY ANGELA HAUPT
APRIL 11, 2024 10:49 AM EDT
Its fortunate that liars pants dont really catch on fire. If they did, much of the worlds population would be ablaze at any given moment. People lie most days, says Kevin Colwell, a professor of psychology at Southern Connecticut State University who researches deception. The majority of fibs are the sorts of harmless white lies that dont hurt anyone. (You dont actually like Aunt Mildreds new haircut? Shes not going to be any worse off believing otherwise.) Lying is a very important social skill, he says. It greases the wheels of society and makes our relationships work better.
More harmful lies, howeverthose that are intentional misrepresentations of material factshave the opposite effect. Being lied to or about can deteriorate someones mental health and lead to a ripple effect of outcomes in their life, Colwell notes, including destroying their relationships. Thats why many of us play detective, trying to separate fact from fib.
So how can you tell if someone is lying to you? The key is to enter the conversation without assumptions, says Colwell, who has trained law enforcement officers and investigators with groups like the National Counterterrorism Center in deception detection. You have to not go into it assuming theyre lying to you, because if you do, its going to change how they interact with you, he says. You have to be engaging and connect with them in a way that makes the conversation easy for them.
You won't always be able to tell for sure. But heres what to look and listen for if youre trying to figure out if someone is lying to you.
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https://time.com/6964719/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-lying/
MENTAL HEALTH
How to Tell if Someone Is Lying to You, According to Experts
8 MINUTE READ
BY ANGELA HAUPT
APRIL 11, 2024 10:49 AM EDT
Its fortunate that liars pants dont really catch on fire. If they did, much of the worlds population would be ablaze at any given moment. People lie most days, says Kevin Colwell, a professor of psychology at Southern Connecticut State University who researches deception. The majority of fibs are the sorts of harmless white lies that dont hurt anyone. (You dont actually like Aunt Mildreds new haircut? Shes not going to be any worse off believing otherwise.) Lying is a very important social skill, he says. It greases the wheels of society and makes our relationships work better.
More harmful lies, howeverthose that are intentional misrepresentations of material factshave the opposite effect. Being lied to or about can deteriorate someones mental health and lead to a ripple effect of outcomes in their life, Colwell notes, including destroying their relationships. Thats why many of us play detective, trying to separate fact from fib.
So how can you tell if someone is lying to you? The key is to enter the conversation without assumptions, says Colwell, who has trained law enforcement officers and investigators with groups like the National Counterterrorism Center in deception detection. You have to not go into it assuming theyre lying to you, because if you do, its going to change how they interact with you, he says. You have to be engaging and connect with them in a way that makes the conversation easy for them.
You won't always be able to tell for sure. But heres what to look and listen for if youre trying to figure out if someone is lying to you.
Snip...more...
https://time.com/6964719/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-lying/
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How to Tell if Someone Is Lying to You, According to Experts (Original Post)
littlemissmartypants
Apr 2024
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Interesting take, isn't it? Critical thinking skills are definitely too under-rated. ❤️
littlemissmartypants
Apr 2024
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SamKnause
(13,759 posts)1. What a fucking joke.
You won't always be able to tell for sure.
Trained law enforcement officers.
The same law enforcement officers that are trained to lie ???
The same law enforcement officers that are being trained to fear and hate the public ???
littlemissmartypants
(24,981 posts)2. Interesting take, isn't it? Critical thinking skills are definitely too under-rated. ❤️
When all else fails, there's always this...
Giant size for really big lies.
OldBaldy1701E
(6,178 posts)3. Oops, a small mistake there...
The same law enforcement officers that have always been trained to see the general public as 'the enemy'?
(With all due respect, I had to fix that for you. The rest is spot on.)