Body Language

[mac@mander.xyz]

Try reading to the final panel.

[punnyname@lemmy.world]

Bridge of the nose, or just above it.

[canarywhiskey@lemmy.world]

Or socially awkward

[lena@gregtech.eu]

I don't know where to look! It's so awkward.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

They can't. There were eyes in that panel, and therefore their eyes looked away.

[stupidcasey@lemmy.world]

What? This is technically written so it doesn't apply to him.

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

This comic is perfect. I was starting to get annoyed after the second panel and it did exactly what I was thinking.

[absolutelynotavelociraptor@sh.itjust.works]

I did. What I said still applies.

[umbrella@lemmy.ml]

a lot of people still read me as dishonest

[randomname01@feddit.nl]

What’s disappointing is that body language can definitely help to determine how people are feeling or what they are thinking, but the people who are into it the most just seem to forget it’s not a foolproof method to completely determine the truth.

[xtl@sopuli.xyz]

And if their arms or legs are crossed, they're probably feeling cold.

Source: am cold.

[orderedchaos@lemmy.world]

Look at their right eye. If you look at their left it'll feel like they're looking over your shoulder. Lol

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Youtube Title: "Top CIA agent reveals TOP TEN telltale signs a SUSPECT is LYING"

Thumbnail: a person doing normal things like... scratching head... or touching face

Also fuck those "crime stories" youtube channels where the narrator keep mentioning the suspect's "body language" like if its indicative of anything.

Like bruh, they already read the results of the case, of course they know that the suspect is guilty/innocent, that "body language" is just hindsight.

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Or theres a FUCKING SPIDER ON THE CEILING

[dragonfucker@lemmy.nz]

It's actually both.

Allists! Your eyes are not that interesting! They're boring to look at 10 minutes straight.

[secret300@lemmy.sdf.org]

I've never heard averting eye contact means that. I do it all the time because I'm scared of making eye contact not because I'm disinterested or dishonest

[troyunrau@lemmy.ca]

In some cultures, direct eye contact is actually aggressive and disrespectful. Kind of jarring when it happens when you come from a culture where eye contact means you're paying attention...

[mothra@mander.xyz]

The thing about body language is that it's always context specific. Yours is a common reason in a lot of people who avoid eye contact, especially with strangers. However, if someone who usually doesn't avoid eye contact suddenly does it, then it's often because they're disinterested or dishonest. Or just nervous or stressed. I don't know. Maybe I'm full of shit too, but I don't call myself an expert.

[rangerjosey@lemmy.ml]

What's it mean if I never break eye contact and maintain a blank expression?

[peoplebeproblems@midwest.social]

What they won't say is that it has nothing to do with any specific body language. You know how some people talk with their hands?

Well everyone has little things like that. In poker they call it a "tell" but that's still inaccurate compared to what interrogaters are really doing.

They can't actually tell if anyone bullshits or not. They have facts about the case, or in the CIA example they have intelligence. They use lie detectors and what not to create anxiety in the ~victim~ suspect/asset. When someone is in sufficient fear, they will let information slip because the brain literally loses control over itself. Too much fear, like in torture, and the brain will force the person to choose whatever answer it feels like will result in self preservation.