Trust me, I didn't look right as I typed this ...

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

'Lying eyes' are a myth - looking to the right DOESN'T mean you are fibbing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2172119/Lying-eyes-myth--
looking-right-DOESNT-mean-fibbing-say-scientists-video-study.html

"Many psychologists believe that when a person looks up to their right they are 
likely to be telling a lie.  Glancing up to the left, on the other hand, is said to 
indicate honesty.

"Co-author Dr Caroline Watt, from the University of Edinburgh, said: 'A large 
percentage of the public believes that certain eye movements are a sign of lying, 
and this idea is even taught in organisational training courses. ... The claimed link 
between lying and eye movements is a key element of neuro-linguistic 
programming.

"According to the theory, when right-handed people look up to their right they 
are likely to be visualising a 'constructed' or imagined event.  In contrast when 
they look to their left they are likely to be visualising a 'remembered' memory.  
For this reason, when liars are constructing their own version of the truth, they 
tend to look to the right."

"Psychologist Prof Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, said: 'The 
results of the first study revealed no relationship between lying and eye 
movements, and the second showed that telling people about the claims made by 
NLP practitioners did not improve their lie detection skills.'

(I guess we'll have to stop watching "The Mentalist" now ...)

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