- Truth or lie?
Looking up and to the right
means they're definitely lying.
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- I get incredible
self-conscious about this one
because we keep hearing that
if you look up and to the right
people will think you're lying.
How true is this?
There's actually been a study done on this
that can dispel some of this myth for us.
So the study is from Edinburgh University,
actually completed three studies to show
there is no definitive correlation
between the direction of eye movement
and whether the subject was
telling the truth or lying.
So it's fair to say that
there are eye accessing cues
where someone might be thinking,
trying to remember something,
looking up to the right or left
but trying to access some information.
- You know, often people say looking down
it's accessing memory.
Look, that might be true
or it might be false,
and we certainly know it can depend
on whether somebody's
left-handed or right-handed,
which way their brain is orientated.
There's a lot of factors in there.
Ultimately, it's been found not to be true
by science for lying even if it is true
in terms of where the data that
somebody might be accessing.
I have to tell you, it's a really complex
and tricky technique to use.
So you're probably best
to stay well away from it
even if it were kind of accurate.
- So the key point here is
that eye accessing cues,
they might be right some of the time
but not 100% of the time and
not enough really to rely on.
- For more tips on body language
go to our website
truthplane.com, and buy the book
Truth & Lies: What People
Are Really Thinking.
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