Body language, are you good at reading it, can you tell if some is telling the truth or not.one

I’m very good at assessing potential boyfriends/ husbands. Being one of three sisters I’ve seen them all and , unfortunately, have always been proved right in my assessment.

Sorry - do wish you could edit posts! I was a school governor for 22 years and sat on very many interview panels. The only duff appointments made occurred when I was not there. It’s a skill that is now sadly going to waste!

Generally, you need to know people well to read their body language. the big signs will be obvious, but the real meaning is in the little things.

You also need to understand the culture of the person before your. Those of different ethnic baclgrounds have a different body language to each other. in some cultures it is a matter of respect never to look anyone in the eye, which appears shifty to those of an English back ground.

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I have always been right about ‘ first impressions’. I’ve tried the benefit of the doubt many times, but always come back to the first impression.

Very good. I spotted it in a very very high profile member of the Royal family from the off ?

It's interesting to watch criminals giving heartbreaking press conferences about about their missing loved ones.
Often the police already know they are involved somehow, and their body language tells the truth.

Had some training on this as a Manager, very interesting.
Classic body language was seen on GBBO last night when Jurgen was the only one not to get the Hollywood Handshake.

Of course, I'm an ex-teacher and could always get an idea what children and then adults were thinking and have eyes in the back of my head as one 5 year old told me his mum was a teacher as well!!!!

I had a counsellor who stood much store by examining my/patients body language. I found it very inhibiting, knowing my every inflection was being logged and examined.
It made me self conscious and more likely to be mis read by her.

I'm pretty rubbish at it, but people who say 'Not gonna lie,' ha, I'm now not gonna believe you!
My estranged husband thinks he is a good liar, but it's what broke our marriage. I'm now friendly with him again, but warn people what he's like as he hasn't changed. But, the amount of people who took/take him at his word just astound me!!
Reading him is quite easy, my DC read him well & DGC are learning to.
Others, hmmm, not so great!

DiscoDancer1975
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I did some body language training with my job.
Nothing as interesting as crime spotting, but how we communicate without saying anything or with a very limited vocabulary.

Did training in this and it's a fascinating subject.

Communication is made up of only 7% of actual words. The rest is tone, pitch, phrasing, inflection and body language. That is why texts are so open to misinterpretation. Emojis can help but, even so, communication by text can go badly wrong because all you have is a few words.

I never heard my mother say a bad word against anyone but I always knew when she didn't warm to someone. There were a couple of facial tics that gave her away. She was always astonished when I asked her why she didn't like someone and she always wondered how I'd guessed. I just used to say it's written all over your face. ?.

That's why professional card players have to be so careful with their facial expressions.,,,,,,,the slightest tic or twitch, clenching of the jaw, widening of eyes, tightening of the mouth, could lose them the game.....hence the term poker face.

I think a lot of us are pretty good at sussing out the bad apples and wrong 'uns. Call it sixth sense or gut instinct, but often we just sense something is wrong or when someone is telling porkies or mean us harm.

If we listen to what our gut instincts tell us we can't go far wrong and those gut instincts do rely heavily on interpreting body language, even if we aren't consciously aware of what's going on. It's the way our subconscious brain works.

The amygdala, sometimes known as the primitive brain, is always on the lookout for danger signals so that it can send instructions to our body so it can react to perceived threat. The classic flight or fight reaction. And most of those signals come from our gut instincts when we observe body language. In fact our gut is often referred to as our second brain.

Primitive humans did not initially communicate through speech, it would have been largely through body language, with a few grunts and screams, same as most primates.

Of course there are phrases that people use that also give the game away......

Not gonna lie.....great example. You know they are going to lie through their teeth,

With all due respect......the last thing they are going to do is show you respect.

It's a fascinating subject and it can be extremely useful to learn the basics.

I was pretty good at it as a teacher, I may have lost that skill, through lack of use.

I'm still pretty good at sussing people out and my first impressions are usually correct.

bikergran - I’m the world’s worst liar as my face turns like a tomato if I tell a fib. I’m not good at reading other people’s body language but I’m sure it can be done. The worst liar I ever met was actually a clinical psychologist so he probably knew how to disguise his untruthfullness ?

Yes I can spot shifty behaviour not much gets past me. Probably the work I did and then running a business with my dh.

I watch Court TV a lot. Right now it’s the case of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery……the killer is on the stand - what a barrel load of lies - his face shows it.

I'd love to do a course on it.

It's fascinating, the other side of the coin is, of course, that it can count against you.

Trying to appear pleasant and interested with a good friend of DH's many years ago backfired when he shook my hand at the end of an evening out, said it had been a lovely evening "But you don't like me, do you!"
Oh, the embarrassment!