
Deception Tip 86:
Remember conceal and falsify. Emotions are harder to falsify and easier to conceal. Whereas, body language is harder to conceal and easier to falsify.
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Hello and welcome to the Deception Tips podcast where you will learn amazing cues to detect deceit that will help you read people like never before. Iโm your host Spencer Coffman, letโs get started.
Hello and welcome to Deception Tip number 86. We are really getting into these deception tips, weโre teaching you how to read people and detect deception so that you will be able to tell whether or not someone is lying to you. Why is this important? Well, itโs important because in todayโs world, in todayโs society, lies are all around us.
It is said, and studies have shown, that the average person can lie 200 times per day or 10 to 20 times in each conversation, that is a lot of lying. Are these lies harmful?ย
Well, yes and no, some of them are polite or socialized. โHow are you doing today?โ โIโm good.โ Well, youโre not good because something just happened, things like that.
โDo you like my new haircut?โ โOh, itโs greatโ, man, it really is awful, those kinds of lies are all over the place. How about when you receive a present and you donโt like it but yet you pretend you like it because you donโt want to hurt their feelings. Those are lies, are they harming someone? Are they malicious? Are they dangerous? No, but theyโre still lies.
You need to know when someone is lying to you so that you can learn to pick out these things. If someone is trying to be malicious or take advantage of you then you need to know and that is why you have been continually listening to the deception tips podcast and I thank you for that.ย
Make sure to check out the books, I have Deception Tips eBooks and books, also A Guide to Deception, and the Deception Tips videos.
Weโve got the Deception Tips blog, Iโve got all kinds of stuff that you can use to help you continue to learn how to read people and detect deception. It is important and knowing whether or not someone is lying will help you in life. Therefore, study these tips, keep listening, share this stuff with your friends, practice with each other and get to know them.
Last time, we talked about a tip or a sign that was on the face and it wasnโt always related to deception. In fact, it is 100% of the time indicative of embarrassment and that is blushing.ย
When someone blushes, they are embarrassed about something, something private was revealed. Now, what would that be? Well, it could be that they had a crush on someone and somebody made it known and now theyโre blushing.
It could also be anything, it could be that they had a secret that someone told and now theyโre blushing. It could be that all of a sudden, their pants got caught in the doorway and they fell off. It could be any number of things but it is indicative of embarrassment, it doesnโt always mean that someone is being deceptive or that theyโre lying.
In addition, it doesnโt always mean that โoh, youโre blushing, therefore, you like so-and-so or you have a crushโ. โOh, do you have a crush on somebody, on this person? Youโre blushing, you must, you have to have a crushโ. Well, no, they donโt have to have a crush on that person, youโre simply putting them on the spot.
Of course, it would be embarrassing, if all of a sudden, I claim that you have a crush on somebody that you really donโt like, youโre going to be embarrassed. Youโre going to be like โno way, I would never have a crush on that personโ, therefore, you will blush either way. It doesnโt mean you love that person, it means youโre embarrassed about it.
So, how does this roll into deception? Well, if someone is called out on their lie, if their lie is discovered then chances are they will be a little bit embarrassed. It doesnโt always mean that theyโre going to blush, however, when something private is revealed, thatโs when we see things occurring on the face where people will blush.
If something private is revealed, private meaning the lie, then there is a greater chance that a person may blush. They arenโt going to always blush but if you see blushing, you want to take a look at it, think about it and say, alright, why is that person blushing? What was revealed? Is it something that I need to pay attention to relating to deception? Take a look at that and you will have it down, no problem.
Today, weโre having another discussion about a similar topic, itโs not necessarily a sign of deception or something visual. However, this is more of a general guideline that liars tend to follow because they do not always want to invent a new lie every time theyโre lying. Think about it, remembering all of those details would be a nightmare, theyโre going to trip up and stumble, guaranteed.
It will absolutely happen if they have all of those different details and theyโre trying to recall an entirely fictitious story. Therefore, liars are going to try to fabricate or change the truth a little bit, theyโre going to try to conceal it, and theyโre not going to come up with an entirely new story. We talked about this before, we spoke of this in episode 65, Conceal the Truth.
How liars would prefer to conceal the truth rather than come up with an entirely new story. Today, weโre talking about something very similar, that they want to conceal these things rather than come up with new stories. Also, that emotions are harder to falsify than conceal, so weโre talking about the emotions and the stories today.
So, here it is, this is Deception Tip number 86. Remember conceal and falsified, emotions are harder to falsify and easier to conceal whereas body language is harder to conceal and easier to falsify. Here it is again, Deception Tip number 86. Remember conceal and falsified, emotions are harder to falsify and easier to conceal whereas body language is harder to conceal and easier to falsify.
So, that could be a little bit confusing simply because itโs harder and easier, falsify and conceal and back and forth, and which is which. Oh my goodness, itโs like the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz saying that way, you never know. However, we are going to break this down so that you will easily be able to remember it. Conceal and Falsify, thatโs what you need to remember.
We talked about it in number 65, where people prefer to conceal the truth, they want to hide it because they donโt want to come up with an entirely new story, itโs simply way too much to remember.ย
Therefore, think of that in terms of emotions, when people are speaking, theyโre speaking their emotions and emotions are harder to falsify and easier to conceal. So, they want to conceal not only the story but also their emotions.
Body language, thatโs unconscious, it comes out without them knowing, theyโre not consciously aware. Therefore, that is harder to conceal because they donโt know itโs coming and itโs easier to falsify because they can consciously fake it.ย
You can consciously pretend to leak some behaviors or to do some gestures, that is how you can break that down. Conceal and falsify and weโre going to talk a lot more about it coming up right after this.
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Welcome back to Deception Tip 86, where we are talking about Concealing and Falsifying. Weโve stated that emotions are harder to falsify, this is because emotion is something that we feel, itโs really just passionate, it is emotion, and emotion is harder to fake. Why are emotions harder to fake? Well, unless you really think about it and conjure it up in your mind, an emotion, you canโt push it forward.
However, if you think of something funny then generally you could laugh but thatโs really not an emotion, thatโs simply laughter, thatโs a behavior. If you think of something really sad, you could feel the emotion of sadness, so you could bring that on. You could falsify that but are you really falsifying it if youโre thinking of something sad?
No, because now it is truthful, youโre truly feeling sad about whatever it is youโre thinking of. So, remember that emotions are harder to falsify, in addition, they are easier to conceal. If Iโm feeling sad and itโs coming on my face, I can easily mask that with a smile or something else. Other cultures like Asia and those types of ethnicities, they do not like to show sadness, itโs not a good thing in their culture.
Therefore, when theyโre getting chewed out or yelled at or if theyโre really crying or at a funeral or something, they may be smiling. Why? Because itโs not polite to show sadness.ย
Now thatโs not every single person whoโs Asian but some cultures over there, some groups over there are that way. Iโm sure that you have found out about them if not, you can take a look and youโll learn something new.
Emotion is hard to falsify, itโs easier to conceal, that is why there are so many masking behaviors or cover-up gestures to hide this emotion. Body language is harder to conceal, people can conceal the emotion by pretending or making a conscious gesture to cover it up. Body language is harder to conceal because they may not know that the unconscious is leaking at the certain time it leaks this body language,
For example, if all of a sudden, thereโs a micro-expression on the face or thereโs something like twitching or nervousness in the leg. Theyโre bouncing their knees or whatever type of unconscious behavior that is being leaked, the conscious may not realize that itโs happening. Therefore, itโs harder to conceal if it doesnโt know whatโs going on.
Itโs easier to falsify because the conscious can come up with these behaviors, no problem. If the conscious knows, okay, letโs see, when Iโm really nervous, Iโm unconsciously bouncing my leg or bouncing both my legs. Alright, so if I want to pretend to be nervous, well then Iโm going to bounce my legs. Pretty soon, itโll just be a reflex and theyโll start bouncing and people will think that I am nervous.
They are falsifying that body language, itโs easier to falsify, harder to conceal. Why? Because itโs unconscious. Now you say, wait a minute, emotions are unconscious as well. Yes, they are. Well then, why are they easier to conceal and harder to falsify? Well, itโs because genuine emotional expressions or genuine expressions of emotion, they appear instantly, quickly, very fast.
They come on and off, a smile, a genuine smile is less than four seconds, micro-expressions, surprise, fear, anger, happiness. Those expressions of emotion are less than a second, theyโre a fraction of a second, theyโre like a quarter of a second, sometimes half, if youโre lucky. They happen fast, theyโre much harder to falsify, and theyโre easy to conceal.
If you have fear or sadness, you can cover that up with a smile or with a yawn or opening your mouth, faking a yawn. You can cover up and hide emotional expressions on the face a lot easier than you can falsify them. The reason is that there are so many tiny muscles that are there.
Unless you learn to consciously control each and every one of those muscles, you will not be able to falsify that emotion, that expression, that emotional expression. You will not be able to falsify it unless you consciously learn how to control each and every one of those muscles.
In addition, you need to know micro expressions, you would need to understand each and every micro expression and what it means. That way, once you understand what they mean and once you learn how to control all those muscles, you could portray, consciously, the correct micro-expression for the feeling that you want to fake or the emotion that you want to think.
Do you see how tough this would be? Most people cannot see a micro-expression even if itโs shown to them three or four times with perfect focus. Itโs so quick, you have to train yourself to see it, this would take a long time.ย
It takes years of training to be able to know and understand these micro-expressions. It would take even more training to control all the muscles in your face and to portray those at a split second in conversation, nearly impossible.
Therefore, emotions are harder to falsify, and easier to conceal. Body language is harder to conceal because, again, itโs unconscious, easier to falsify because itโs our body. Itโs not such tiny, little things, itโs easy for me to move my hand, and my arm but itโs hard for me to move a tiny muscle in my face.
I want to thank you for listening to this weekโs episode of the Deception Tips podcast. I hope that youโll share it with your friends, subscribe to the feed, check out the videos, take a look at the blog and the books that I have available, and, as always, tune in next week for a new deception tip.
Video Transcript
Hey guys, my name is Spencer Coffman, thank you for watching theย Deception Tips videos. Theyโre all about teaching you how to read people and detect deception so that you will be able to tell if someone is lying to you. Today, we are going to talk about a cool little situation on the background of emotions, body language, expression, and what is going on.
How it is for people who are trying to tell these lies, theyโre trying to pull one over on you. Is it easier for them to fake it or conceal it or hide it, what is it and how itโs going back and forth? So, theyโre concealing, and falsifying information and expressions and one is easier to conceal, one is easier to falsify and thatโs what weโre talking about today.
So, here it is, this is Deception Tip number 86. Remember conceal and falsify. Emotions are harder to falsify and easier to conceal. Whereas body language is harder to conceal and easier to falsify. I know this sounds a little bit confusing with emotions, conceal, falsify, body language, conceal, falsify, but itโs really simple when you think about it.
Weโll break it down, emotions, they are easier to conceal and harder to falsify, why? Emotions happen instantly, itโs a split second on the face, its facial expression, facial expressions of emotion. So, these are easier to conceal, why? It is because, as we talked about before, smiles can just cover up an emotion, no problem and they can be concealed.
Whereas falsifying an emotion is hard because you need to bring your mind back to that place. So, if you want to falsify sadness, you have to think of something sad and hope that that emotion will follow on your face or happiness or anger, etc. In addition, if you want to pretend to be angry, itโs more than just putting a frown on your face, thereโs more that goes into the genuine emotional expression on your face, so theyโre harder to falsify.
They are easier to conceal because when an emotional expression happens, it happens right away, so you have to conceal it if youโre being a liar, if youโre lying. Whereas body language is easier to falsify and harder to conceal, why is this? Itโs easier to falsify because body language can be conscious and unconscious, so can emotional expression but you donโt have to put yourself there.
So, if I want to falsify body language and be pointing, I can easily point, whether itโs a false pointer or not is irrelevant. If I want to falsify a shoulder shrug, I can shrug my shoulders consciously or it could happen unconsciously if I donโt know what Iโm talking about. Theyโre easier to falsify because itโs doing something, itโs my motor skills, itโs my motor movement, I can do it.
Whereas itโs harder to conceal because if you have an emotional response in your mind and then it kicks out body language, whether itโs something nonverbal and unconscious or itโs something that you do, itโs harder to conceal that. For example, if I have a stop gesture and Iโm speaking with someone and Iโm going like this, thatโs harder to conceal. What am I going to do, put my other hand there?
If Iโm hushing my lips, thatโs harder to conceal, I canโt put my other fingers up or go like this and hush my lip, itโs harder to conceal that, itโs easier to falsify it. If I want to pretend to be like Iโm uncertain, I could pretend to put my fingers over my lips and hush my lips as weโve talked about in previous tips. I can pretend to do that but if Iโm already doing that unconsciously, itโs unconscious, I donโt know Iโm doing it, itโs harder to conceal that.
So, just remember that conceal and falsify, itโs harder to conceal body language, itโs easier to falsify body language. Itโs harder to falsify emotional expressions, itโs easier to conceal emotional expressions. If you remember that when youโre conversing with other people and when youโre interrogating them or trying to find the truth, just remember that and think about it.
If you see a gesture, well, that could be a false gesture, theyโre not going to cover it up but if you see an emotional expression or a smile well, that could be concealing, not falsifying. So, keep that in mind as you look out for those patterns and clusters of behavior in your deception detection abilities.
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