Introduction
Detecting deception in human interactions has long been of interest around the world. The detection of lies has obvious significance for the spheres of business, politics, national security, and private life. The ability to identify any false, negative, malicious, and dangerous intentions of the interlocutor when talking on the phone, communicating in messengers, correspondence, or online communities largely depends on the well-being of a person in almost all spheres of life.
Discussion
The general skills of each person should include the ability to recognize the discrepancy between the information presented by someone and the interlocutor’s internal representation of the subject of conversation. For professionals engaged in the search for truth in various fields, the ability to recognize lies is one of the most important professional qualities. Lying and deception a very specific and complex cognitive tasks of forcing someone who accept as real what is actually false. Studies have shown that the tone of a person’s voice will deviate from the baseline by up to 95% when uttering all misleading statements (TED, 2011). The two primary ways to recognize liars are to pay attention to the tone they speak and their body language. Changes in tone are one of the most trusted measures of cheating, regardless of whether it increases or decreases, which depends on the emotions involved. The tone of voice rises when a person is angry or excited. Body language often plays a key role in determining whether someone is a liar.
Conclusion
It can be concluded that psychological studies have studied ways and methods of establishing lies based on signs of nonverbal reactions. In the process of nonverbal communication, a liar is not able to consciously control his facial reactions, gaze, and micro-movements of the body, which facilitates the task of establishing a lie by nonverbal signs. Meanwhile, to determine a lie by nonverbal signs, it is necessary to investigate not individual nonverbal reactions, but their totality.
Reference
TED. (2011). Pamela Meyer: How to recognize a liar. [Video]. YouTube. Web.