Does maintaining eye contact mean someone is less likely to be lying? Anna Tolipova/Alamy
An investigation into the best way to identify lies has found that focusing on the level of detail in what people say, while ignoring all other cues, is the most successful method – but if liars know that, they might more easily deceive you.
People trained to detect lies often rely on multiple cues, such as eye contact, length of responses and the details in what people say, but studies have shown that assessing a wide range of behavioural information …
Article amended on 21 March 2023
We corrected the method of rating the level of detail in the final experiment
