How to tell if someone is lying

Welcome to the Body Language Videos! These series of videos will show you how to read other people's body language, and use yours to succeed in a variety of situations.
Loaded with practical tips, Robert Phipps, TV's #1 Body Language expert and author of Body Language: It's What You Don't Say That Matters, will help you to decode the body language you notice, and pick up on the subtle things you might miss, to lead to success in business and life!
Want to know if someone is telling you the truth? In this video, learn how to be a human polygraph and decode people's gestures and behaviours to tell if someone is lying. This is fascinating yet easy-to-use stuff that'll help you understand the secrets of body language and use them to your advantage.

[@wmonger]

I normally find out who is lying to me by holding them down and beating the truth out of them. This way is good too.....I guess.

[@wtfvids3472]

Your method is crucial information missing in every how to spot a liar book.

[@jake-ce3io]

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[@herox7191]

Jay Davis so your telling me I should beat the truth out of you because your obviously lying

[@faizannadir1623]

So u beat ass of your girlfriend to the truth

[@katejuarez7204]

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[@tortillaman4240]

Its easy to lie if u honestly dont care...

[@gordonseebold7936]

Most definitely, you are a master

[@shxdowgaming1039]

Real facts bro lol

[@kathleenmorris9309]

So true

[@vladimirisokov7455]

I came here to learn how to lie better, anyone else do this too haha

[@spaaaaace8952]

+Vladimir Isokov No, I'm not a coward.

[@vladimirisokov7455]

SPAAAAACE What does lying have to do with being cowardly?

[@chiarajune7411]

I did

[@spaaaaace8952]

Vladimir Isokov Oh, I don't know, being afraid of telling the truth instead, maybe?

[@chiarajune7411]

SPAAAAACE Everyone lies

[@hulyaesraorhan4134]

These are good techniques during business meetings in order to see if someone is lying to you. When it comes to personal relationships, it is quite easy to spot someone's lies if you are perceptive enough. Read the signals on which you have a suspicion; keep in mind his/her past and current conversations and detect any ambiguity, inconsistency & contradiction between those conversations within the “story line”. Confront the person about the relevant subject, patiently listen to the person and observe his/her reactions. There you have it! :) A liar cannot outsmart a perceptive, observant, honest person.

[@Tomken8d2]

I'm Johnny Roche. I can always tell when people are lying to me. Their lips move and words come out.

[@brettsmith7184]

my girlfriend does these things a lot... Im glad I saw this

[@imlegit6679]

You: Do you love me? Girlfriend: Yes. You: Watches this vid and realizes he's gay...

[@paulaberi2132]

Are you still together? 👀

[@beajanebouzy9597]

@@paulaberi2132 lmaoo i can’t believe that was 7 years ago

[@10draperful]

What happened in the end?

[@darthbarf]

“You gonne die babyy”

[@extrastype]

Someone telling truth will pause and look up and right.. Lier down and left as they reply to your questions.. Pausing before answering is a sign of truth..they haven't rehearsed the answer...

[@tanyamason483]

Body Language is a good tools to know, HOWEVER, be careful by judging other people just based on this! There are much more to understand a person as well as it is all depending on a culture where they raised... Since we are living in a deserve society.... body language is usually very much misinterpreted in these days...

[@awoken2562]

I have behaviourism. I know when someone lies, very simply. Stumbling means they are lying if they don't already naturally stumble. Their blink rates increase if they lie. So simply.

[@awoken2562]

+Awoken And, the feet and legs part is just false.

[@brandonknable7890]

Awoken yup. People do that because they are nervous. I believe to spot a lier is more up to the knees and above

[@hildcit]

I don't usually like to have eye contact all the time, and sometimes when I'm talking with someone and we have had "to much" eye contact, I feel that I have to look away for a while... It doesn't mean I'm lying, but I feel uncomfortable sometimes with eye contact...

[@MisterStomper]

These are all situational and cannot be guarantees in all situations. Some people are simply nervous when dealing with other people and will do half these things because of the stress of human contact. Learn to recognize the TYPES of people you will be dealing with and these tips will be that much more useful.

[@mattsvideoart3246]

I am fascinated by non verbal behavior from a variety of angles (poker, medicine, and life in general). I have a suggestion that you do a video analyzing the nonverbal behavior/microexpressions of US attorney general Jeff Sessions when he lied during his testimony to the Judicial senate committee (during senator Al Franken's questions. This is incredible to watch. It show great non verbal behavior and it show him answering a question he wasn't even asked with a lie. This analysis is needed in the public sphere to be seen by all, and I believe you will have a massive viral video in your library. Good luck. Hope you consider this.

[@rich1051414]

Showing open palms can also be a sign of lying, especially if they show them while moving them away from you. It's a natural gesture to show your palms when shrugging to imply you had nothing to do with something, but someone doing this gesture while being deceptive will pull their hand toward themselves while leaning away from you. The best way to question them is to ask them about their day from end to beginning. People will get confused if they have to construct a lie in backwards chronological order, and get tripped up.

[@emilywilliams5839]

Liars may hesitate in speech and give you more unnecessary information, their speech is usually formal. Also they might trail off in what they say.

[@boynextdoor1]

he's lying!

[@asimalam1237]

Lol

[@marcoculoio7188]

Lol

[@killerme101]

Lol

[@Offmaz]

Lol

[@l1nkinprktomPVP]

Lol

[@dihsh4321]

Oh dear. I have lipoedema & lymphedema in both legs & arms. To minimise my elbow, arm & shoulder pain I have to lean my arms on a table or keep them crossed which people sometimes read as closed or defensive. Its essential for me to move my feet constantly as he's shown here or my lymph fluid stops draining, leading to swelling, hardening of the lymph fluid & my legs can actually seize up completely, causing great pain & meaning I cannot move. Anyone having watched this would think someone like me is constantly lying to them which would be an inaccurate assessment, as I make every effort to be accurate, honest, open & enjoy connecting well with others. It's not that he's generally wrong but these interpretations are not always accurate. You do also have to be aware of other factors which could also account for similar body movements & gestures.

[@egillbg7794]

You're just making me better at lying

[@VoidDankest]

What if someone just needs to take a shit? I would do the wiggle motion with my feet in such a situation..

[@JustanamebroDK]

then people would propably stop jiggling, and go to the wc to shit.

[@aliysoltan]

SIR johan you deserve a medal GENIUS i did not think of that

[@VoidDankest]

***** Not sure if stupid or just really doge. I obviously meant BEFORE you take the shit you might do the jiggle motion. Imagine that you're in a meeting and can't leave straight away. Or that you're just simply bored. I cannot sit still without doing something with my feet now and then. Someone could easily mistake that for lying -.-

[@royk.8481]

What about erections?

[@lamarmcneil1802]

LOL

[@armourer76]

That TED talk is an amazing starting point. The problem is, if you study for decades, you will have only scratched the surface of being able to read people. I do it for a living and instruct others on how to do it as well, but it's far more difficult than all of this. The environment changes everything. We as humans are the only species to adapt to the environment as quickly as we do. Other species migrate or die off. Our environment changes everything. Background, culture, etc.

[@jadejensen2443]

I was jiggling my feet up and down while watching this video...

[@realtalk3567]

I honestly don't care that much if someone's lying to me or not because it's more about how they're treating me and if they're doing right by me that matters more. Sometimes people are lying just to protect you or make you feel good which I can accept that. And sometimes people can be truthful with you and not really be for you, they're hating on you, they really don't like you, they don't mean well, etc. If they're lying to you and don't mean well, chances are you would have been noticed other things they do that show they're a toxic person or aren't really for you anyway outside of lying. So I'm more about the character of the person. I understand there's some important things people shouldn't lie to you about, but those who are for you would not hide that truth from you if necessary. It's deeper than just spotting a lie or truth in other words. By the way, it also strongly depends on the context of the situation at hand as well. I can't point out every situation in content so this was just a general view of how I view lying when dealing with people. Give me a different context and I might have a whole different answer.

[@armourer76]

Absolutely correct. When someone changes their behavior, you have to analyze why it changed. Did the temperature change? Did someone else walk by? Did a lingering thought enter the subject's mind that has them worried, totally unrelated to what you are talking about? Or simply are they feeling stress and anxiety. These changes are observed, analyzed and revisited to gauge if it was the topic or other factors that created that change. Deception detection is extremely in-depth.

[@vipersrt30]

best way to find if a person is lying or not is by having all the information associated between you and your conversation partner down. These tips may not only apply to liars but actually to commitment probability. A person may be honest and is telling their real intention but there is a higher chance or not wanting to continue with the decision in the future. self comforting body language as mentioned in the video might mean that the person was irritated somehow by the decision made in the situation. If the decision is uncomfortable for the person, the person might give a second thought to it and may not inform you about their feeling until it is too late. Some business people hide their feelings so well some call it "being professional." An intentional lie would be harder to predict most of the time.

[@coke8077]

thanks for informing me on what not to do when I tell lies (:

[@JayT851]

Some people are experts at lying and getting away

[@dogooda]

the eye to eye contact isn't true because I don't like looking people in the eyes. I'm a shy person.

[@brandonknable7890]

dogooda same

[@tonekahalobovell31]

Me too.

[@CallMeKamil]

i show all these synthoms at my job, i lie a lot and im always stressed out, thats interesting.. thank you

[@CyberZak]

I'm glad you answered that rationally and not like a pissy teenager.

[@ZuccheniMan]

thats why he said they do this under stress. when you ask someone an important question and they begin to do this it could "indicate" that they're lying

[@Lena-uh3ky]

yeah very nice sometimes we don´t take a look at body language but its VERY important

[@Antiecm]

I guess you would think I am lying as I apply pressure to my Sciatic nerve with the liars feet movements you mention.

[@SophaPlays]

See now, these are good ways to tell if someone lie but everyone lies in different ways and you also have to take into consideration about whether that person has issues with social situations. In my case, when I tell the truth I want to look like I'm telling the truth because I hate being called a liar, but the issue with this is that because I am over-thinking about what I'm saying, my actions and speech are out of synch, therefore not making me look at all convincing. :P

[@thehomefront1905]

People always accuse me of lieing because I fidget a lot, but that's what you do when your got piles.

[@johnrainsman6650]

This is off topic...for now...but that's because it's merely an introduction for the sake of context. I will ask about lying after someone responds. Now, once at work, when a coworker was giving us instructions for the night and asked if there were any questions, my old manager, totally unprompted, suddenly said, "Does that make sense, John?" I think she asked me in particular because of all the times I struggled with tasks and demonstrated my slow, limited understanding. That was the night I delayed getting something for a coworker and the manager had to help me find it. I think she thinks I'm...well, whatever is a nice, more respectful word for "stupid," since she surely wouldn't use or think that mean word, especially consciously. But either way, I just can't stop the feeling and impression that she thinks I'm Mr. "Gee, I don't get it." Would that explain her "random" question to _me_ that night, no one else? That she thinks I'm slow?

[@hollykeane5478]

Great tips! These are quite helpful

[@grimbeard5931]

You will "learn how to be a human polygraph". That claim is true. Polygraphs can't detect lies, and neither will you be able to using this sort of disproved 'body language' nonsense.

[@kaleistalkin5176]

Its nice to share this but now liars know what to avoid, many liars are smart!

[@SimmyandGen]

If their eyes are dialated that means that they are concentrating really hard and trying not to look suspicious. You're welcome.

[@user-zu1ix3yq2w]

what if theyre talking to a pretty girl?

[@SimmyandGen]

+Sarek Mather then I don't know lol

[@ninastorm2223]

i'm sorry to hear that, great to hear it works tho

[@cyrussumagit6550]

You got that right

[@calvin643]

My friend was lying to me and blaming stuff on me, but the problem is that she's lying to me online and so I made another account to know if she was actually lying... And she was, and I don't think if I can talk to her or be her friend much longer...

[@elenirouka8965]

What did you do back then?

[@ImsoUT1]

Thanks for telling me how to lie.

[@robi-wanshinobi5676]

In many anime, the protagonist will rub the back of their head such as shown. But usually it's not because they are lying but rather because they are embarrassed or overly flattered. I love anime and anime heroes and I have been doing the same thing for a long time. I wonder if people think I'm lying about something instead of being embarrassed or flattered.

[@brandonknable7890]

Robi-Wan Shinobi nah. Fact someone is lying if they do that is rubbish

[@ToveriJuri]

Isn't the first part just general nervousness. I've seen(and done it myself) When people are doing presentations.

[@Zen-751]

+Toveri Juri Yea also a little bit of feeling shame. and I put my hand in my pockets and don't lie some of these are like you just said, I hope he said that in is book for the people that bought it. We don't need a bunch of douche bags running around calling nervous people liar when they're not... lol

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[@morganbove05]

You can also tell if someone is lying to you is if they start laughing and smiling

[@sambeebadass]

i can look into peoples eyes even if im lying

[@MeadeSkeltonMusic]

I touch my face when I'm nervous. I get nervous even telling truth

[@Sultan-e]

I usually do not comments but this verse of Quran also confirms that our body parts can be witness against us. "That Day shall We set a seal on their mouths. But their hands will speak to us, and their feet bear witness, to all that they did. (surah 36:65 Ya-sin) "On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will bear witness against them as to their actions." (Quran surah 24:24 Light)

[@timothybradek3560]

Thank you my friend, I appreciate that.

[@benweitz2001]

This is true but it is more a sign of anxiety rather than not telling the truth, I mean I get all fidgety and I rub the back of my neck when I'm taking a test in school

[@lamarmcneil1802]

if someones lying its rather holding something behind the back,facial expression or a little smile...

[@MsTurquaz]

So people do these things when they are "under stress" not when they are lying. I caught myself rubbing my neck while watching this video. I wasnt saying anything. I wasnt lying. I was thinking that someone who knows these stuff may analyise me and understand when im lying. I just got a little stressed. Its true that people get stressful when they lie, but they dont get stressfull only while they are lying.

[@KojiFX]

You sir, are my hero.

[@adfssadfdsaf1]

I like how you display everything.

[@starfall9167]

When i lie, it comes out smooth and i don't ever do anything different..

[@dayumnikkah6627]

thank you

[@SteveSpears-Kuhlah]

If you lie to someone who has high connectivity of mirror neurons and spindle cells in the pre-frontal cortex, they will know that you are lying, even if they haven't had training. There are micro-expressions on the face which are universal and cannot be hidden.. There are nuances of tone and pacing in the voice that will give you away to those who have social intelligence.

[@NerdySally1]

hi i am 7 years old i have a freind she lied to me i said did you find summer yet and her brother siad no then she siad yes then no then she got on her toes and she was shaking so then summer cam right ther and said why did you tell me to hide in my house

[@moonshinestars1301]

First of all thank you for this helpful information, but I have a question , is there any way I can detect a lie while having a conversation with the person on the phone?

[@DarkFateRecords]

Thanks.

[@TheCynicalBee]

What if a lier is watching this and now knows not what to do.

[@torisui6958]

my friend rosemary is ALWAYS lieing to me!!!!! thx for the video.

[@nekoferrara7000]

I have this guy in my school he loves too lie, I will catch him TODAY :3 Then tell the teachers if he is lying to the class

[@chantiaunique]

but what if somebody looks you dead in your face and lie but they're not moving any body parts or making facial expression...how would you know?

[@tr3nta345]

When i lie i either shift my eyes or look straight at them, wich doesnt work because i end up focusing on looking honest and stay there for a good 5 minutes without saying a word

[@FreezingPT]

the funny thing is by watching the video you can learn to lie more convincingly

[@richardsmeele]

You can never 100% tell if someone is lying, thats a fact

[@Lucas96318]

thats why i watched it..........

[@gabespeece3716]

Thanks

[@pumpkintea4101]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[@NightCrafted]

Thank you so much!

[@Cloudybubbless]

Most of these are true unfortunately. I'm terrible at lying

[@holosexual7632]

I rub be back if my neck with my pointer finger whenever a teacher calls on me in class 😂

[@thesilentcartographer5273]

I love this guy :D

[@DarkFateRecords]

Good.

[@BenDover-lh5rd]

I did this to find out if my brother is lying about my stolen money

[@ctgslayer]

Robert Phibbs. *chuckle chuckle*

[@geecode2000]

Nice!

[@unpreeable]

now i know what not to do..

[@jherciey1513]

I can do eye contact while I'm lying 😂😂😂😂

[@clubpenguinrockie]

I actually heard that people who lie make too much eye contact XDD cus when you're telling a real story, you look away to try and recall the situation haha idk how tru that is tho

[@nya7170]

thank you for a lot 😀

[@awsomegirl105]

Same here...

[@margit428]

All of these tips means I am a pretty good liar.

[@lawnmowerdave2661]

I just stare at them...and don't breathe...and that's when they start doing those things...

[@TommyPlaysTheGame]

I gasped when I read that...

[@RooNY1x]

Thanks i think now i know who's lying =)

[@MrSpartacus151]

Politicians lie constantly.

[@bdulrhman5412]

Its funny how he says dollars, but his British lol!

[@dubberzsmith6390]

Wait a sec so he's been lying the whole time 😨😨😨illuminati confirmed

[@janetramirez7304]

I do all them hand gestures when I am nervous , bored, anxious etc. Does not mean that I am lying . My boyfriend thinks I am always lying just because I do certain body movements . SO STUPID!!! Everything I do or say is a lie. In that case, move on!! Right?

[@2urita]

I get lots of bogus salespeople coming into my parents' shop and we run them out.

[@mercedesayris9436]

your hands speak a thousand words. subtle.

[@tonekahalobovell31]

Wow great

[@hunterwilliams5452]

I don't do any of them when i lie i have to lie to my friend sometimes though

[@jacqueskruger5198]

they say you are what you eat right?? Well I cant Remember eating a legend this morning MWHA HA HA HA!!

[@iaintevengonholdyou]

Am I the only person who does almost all of this when lying to my principle?

[@cosmicaurax2150]

eye contact is weird...so i lie everytime

[@christinap3783]

CosmicAura X5 work on your confidence! You lack it..

[@keithoates7954]

What if i do all of this when im telling the truth and mostly laugh when im lying

[@RobertDominguez8]

I only use my hands when I'm nervous and I always us my feet like that but not putting my hands in my pocket

[@elararyder8237]

That's kinda true there is other ways to tell if there lieing like they will lift there eyes up or sideways if they go up the are thinking of there story sideways as well but there are other reason they go sideways like if they lie there eyes will shift sideways if there not looking at you when there speaking there lieing they may not look at you in general but say you said are we still on for tonight the say ya and not look at you or turn there eyes sideways there lieing