Author: Lauren Whitma

Most conversations run on an unspoken rhythm. You ask a question, the other person answers, and their facial expressions match the emotional weight of their words. When that rhythm breaks, your brain picks up on the dissonance before you can consciously explain it. Knowing how to tell if someone is lying is about catching tiny, involuntary friction points between a constructed story and the body trying to deliver it. To read these cues, you have to establish what someone looks like when they’re relaxed. Once you understand that baseline, these 11 behavioral tells can help you recognize how to tell…