Our faces reveal multitudes about what we are thinking, feeling, intending. A slack jaw hints that we’ve been surprised, flared nostrils suggest hostility. Drooping eyelids indicate sadness or perhaps just … exhaustion. This is to say nothing of the powerful messages communicated by the face in the embarrassed downward glance, the flirtatious “look away,” or the piercing stare. Because our facial expressions are reliable indicators of our true emotional state, they are a liespotter’s best friend. While not every lift of the eyebrows or tightening of the lips will yield an infallible “truth” or “lie” verdict, trained liespotters can glean much from careful study of the face. This presentation is based on the book liespotting - proven techniques to detect deception by Pamela Meyer, founder and CEO of Calibrate, a leading deception detection training company.

1. READING THE FACE
The mouth may lie but the face it makes none the less tells the truth. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

2. HOW MUCH DO YOU ALREADY KNOW?
PAUL EKMAN AND THE FORE
SEVEN BASIC EMOTIONS
NINE CLUES TO DECEIT

3. HOW MUCH DO YOU ALREADY KNOW?
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4. PAUL EKMAN AND THE FORE

5. SEVEN BASIC EMOTIONS
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6. http://indikator.free.fr/
Happiness
LOOK LIKE
WHAT THEY
Fear
Contempt
Sadness
Surprise
Anger
Disgust
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7. http://www.humintell.com/2010/06/the-seven-basic-emotions-do-you-know-them/
Fear
Mouth stretched
Upper eyelids pulled up
Eyebrows pulled up and together

8. Sadness
Inner corners of eyebrows raised
Eyelids loose
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Lips corners pulled down

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Disgust
Lips loose
Nose wrinkled
Upper lip pulled up
Eyebrows Pulled Down

10. Happiness
Muscle around the eyes tightened
“Crows Feet” wrinkles around eyes
Cheeks raised
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Lip corners raised diagonally

11. Lip corner pulled up and back on one side only
Eyes neutral
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Contempt

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Surprise
Eylids pulled up
Mouth hangs open
Entire eyebrow pulled up

13. Anger
Eyebrows pulled down
Upper lids pulled up
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Lower lids pulled up
Margins of lips rolled in
Lips may be tightened

14. NINE CLUES TO DECEIT
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15. Micro-expressions
The face often contains two messages - what
the liar wants to show and what the liar
wants to conceal. False but convincing
expressions may occur one moment and
concealed expressions leak the very next
moment. The true, felt expressions of emotion
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occur because facial actions can be produced
involuntarily, without thought or intention.

16. Squelched Expressions
As an expression emerges the person seems to
become aware of what is beginning to show
and interrupts the expression, sometimes also
covering it with another expression. The smile
is the most common cover or mask.
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17. Reliable Muscle Patterns
Not all of the muscles that produce facial
expression are equally easy to control.
Reliable muscles are not available for use in
false expressions; the liar cannot gain access
to them. For example, only about 10 percent
people can deliberately pull the corners of
http://face-and-emotion.com/dataface/facs/guide/FACSIV1.html
their lips downward without moving their
chin muscle.

18. Blink Rates
Blinking can , of course, be either voluntary
or involuntary, but people telling a lie will
often involuntarily blink more than they do
when they’re telling the truth.
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19. Pupil Dilations
Pupils dilate when people are emotionally
aroused, but there is no voluntary pathway
that allows anyone the option to make this
change by choice. Dilated pupils indicate a
person is emotionally aroused, however, they
do not reveal which emotion it is. A person
with unusually dilated pupils may be feeling
http://www.nei.nih.gov/healthyeyes/eyeexam.asp
fear or other emotions that he cannot
conceal.

20. Tears
Tears are also produced by autonomic nervous
system activity, but tears are signs of only
some, not all, emotions. Tears occur with
distress, sadness, relief, certain forms of
enjoyment, and uncontrolled laughter. Tears
of enjoyment should not leak if the laughter
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itself has been suppressed.

21. Asymmetrical Expressions
http://www.amazon.com/Telling-Lies-Marketplace-Politics-Marriage/dp/0393337456/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290888306&sr=1-1
In an asymmetrical facial expression, the
same actions appear on both sides of the
face, but the actions are stronger on one side
than the other. False smiles are more
asymmetrical than felt smiles.

22. Timing
True emotional indicators are usually
expressed simultaneously; feigned indicators
occur in quick succession. For example, a
subject who is pretending to outraged may
cross his arms and then scowl. If he had been
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angry , the arm movement and scowl would
have taken place at the same time.

23. Duration
Expressions of long duration —certainly ten
seconds or more, and usually 5 seconds—are
likely to be false. For example, a fixed smile is
likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other
negative emotion; a parted-on frown may
indicate that the subject is trying to figure
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out what to say.

24. The Tenth Indicator: Intuition
Our eyes or our ears may not immediately
recognise when we’re being lied to, but our
brains certainly do. For example, one North
Western University study showed that even
when people did not realise that they had
http://mediumsworld.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/albert-einstein-intuition.jpg
seen a micro expression, their brain activity
was affected by its fleeting appearance on
someone’s face.
Trust yourself! Lie detection and intuition
have a reciprocal relationship .