WEEK 6: TELLING THE TRUTH
How to detect if a person is lying?
According to several websites, a person who lies:
1) Avoids eye contact. Shifty eyes are the most common feature of a liar.
2) Gives multiple versions of the same story. They explain different versions to different people or even to the same person in a matter of seconds. Their explanations are never clear or concise, but confusing.
3) Provides unnecessary explanations. A liar may stammer and hesitate when explaining things, giving detailed and irrelevant information and not answering questions directly.
4) Body language. A liar may feel uncomfortable or fidget, so they tend to stand still, cover some part of their body, change their body position more than twice or make nonsense movements.
5) Facial expressions such as eyes darting back and forth, looking up to the right, face touching or pursed lips.
Although these characteristics are extended to all liars, it does not mean that all people with some of these features are liars. Unfortunately, lies are quite difficult to decipher since people who lie are widely experienced in this sphere and may be very convincing.
Liar Liar (1997) teaches the audience that lying is an adulthood issue. Children are used to telling the truth and they do not conceive telling lies because life is easier when you are direct and honest. His son Max detects his father's lies and wishes in his 8th birthday that he does not tell any lie for an entire day. Thus, Jim Carrey will have to manage not to ruin his life by means of telling what he thinks to everybody, including his ex-wife. Liar Liar has a moral lesson: Everbody lies.
This week I have been very much focused on Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot, a postmodern book that we have to read for the course of Modernismo.
Patricia
4) Body language. A liar may feel uncomfortable or fidget, so they tend to stand still, cover some part of their body, change their body position more than twice or make nonsense movements.
5) Facial expressions such as eyes darting back and forth, looking up to the right, face touching or pursed lips.
Although these characteristics are extended to all liars, it does not mean that all people with some of these features are liars. Unfortunately, lies are quite difficult to decipher since people who lie are widely experienced in this sphere and may be very convincing.
Liar Liar (1997) teaches the audience that lying is an adulthood issue. Children are used to telling the truth and they do not conceive telling lies because life is easier when you are direct and honest. His son Max detects his father's lies and wishes in his 8th birthday that he does not tell any lie for an entire day. Thus, Jim Carrey will have to manage not to ruin his life by means of telling what he thinks to everybody, including his ex-wife. Liar Liar has a moral lesson: Everbody lies.
This week I have been very much focused on Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot, a postmodern book that we have to read for the course of Modernismo.
Patricia
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