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The Ultimate Body Language Book

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False smile: Where the eyes play no part (no wrinkles in the corners of the eyes<br />

as in the Duchenne smile and the mouth is stretched across the face).<br />

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Doubt or disbelief: While answering a question in the affirmative saying “yes” the head is seen shaking<br />

from side-to-side in a ‘no-gesture.’<br />

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Chapter 16 - Deception and Lie Detection<br />

How Mentally Taxing Is Lie Telling?<br />

It’s intuitive for most to<br />

think that the creation of lies is more difficult than telling the truth. For example, some think that the<br />

truth comes ready-made, we simply remove it from a box and present it, whereas lies have to be pieced<br />

together and manufactured so appear more difficult to construct. However, only sometimes this is true,<br />

other times recalling what really happened proves to be just as difficult. Sometimes the truth requires<br />

interpretation and other times the truth is hard to describe such as our opinion and feelings or in other<br />

cases is difficult to visualize such as when an event happens quickly. Our minds have built in selective<br />

memories making it hard to recall information that has happened in our past, particularly with respect

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