Part Two

Detecting Lies

If you have completed reading Part One you will now have a good understanding of the nature and motivation for lying. Now, Part Two will provide you with some additional theoretical knowledge before moving on to the practical aspects of lie detection—the fun stuff!

If you have skipped Part One and just started reading, then Part Two will provide you with some very basic but essential theory before moving on to the purely practical aspects of lie detection. In Part One, we discussed the need to be able to quickly assess whether there is any motivation for a person to lie to you when they are giving you information. If there is, then you need to turn on your lie radar, or, as I term it, “Liedar,” and start scanning for verbal signs (what the person says and how it is said and nonverbal signs (what the person does/how the person acts).

If you suffer from chronic impatience (as I do), try to resist going directly to the Lying Signs section in Part Two, as the theory leading up to that section will greatly enhance your ability to improve your accuracy as a Human Lie Detector.