How to Detect a Lie

There are theories and practical experimentation that has been performed as a part of evolution of science & psychology to give various arguments and reasons of humans lying. But is saying the truth always is safest ? That's something you must ponder over.

It starts from the very beginning when we were small kids. As kids, we are part of learning by doing or seeing someone do that we explore other parts of human behavior – which is to hide the reality and project a disguised and fake picture/story to others. Since most of our interactions are with siblings and parents at home or friends at school, we experiment these with them.

My father has this out-of-the-world way to detect if any of my brother or I was lying.

He takes his fingers and holds our ears such that the fingers touch the outer edges of the ears.

See the image for illustration.

About this method, he believed that when a person is lying, there are changes in temperature of our body. Since facial skin is the thinnest, the soft skin of the ear is best to test this.

While I was searching about a scientific research to back this, I came across Pinocchio Effect (Click to reach the whole report): Which tells that "..there is an Increase in the temperature around the nose and in the orbital muscle in the inner corner of the eye. In Addition, when we perform mental effort our face significant temperature drops and When We Have an anxiety attack our face temperature raises."

So this means he was actually right much before scientists backed this up with experimental proof. Isn’t that cool ?

Also, read How to catch if someone is lying