Behavioral researcher Vanessa Van Edwards shares three nonverbal signs that someone is lying: the lip purse, where someone subtly closes their lips after speaking; fear eyes, when the whites of the eyes become suddenly visible; and a disgust microexpression, a brief flash of teeth and wrinkled nose. Parents can use these cues to spot when their kids are hiding the truth.
There's a couple cues I think that it's really important for moms to look out for. The very first thing is called a lip purse. A lip purse is when we, mm, mm. This is a withholding gesture. So if you're talking or asking them something and all of a sudden they, mm, they're withholding. Time to ask more questions, right? Okay. Okay, that's number one. Number two is look for fear eyes. Fear eyes look like this. When you can see the whites of someone's eyes, you just said something that made them really nervous. Pay attention. Okay. The last one is actually a lie detection cue. Liars and lying makes us feel dirty, so we get disgusted with it. So oftentimes liars will flash the disgust microexpression. We flash our upper the whites of our teeth, we wrinkle our nose. So if you ask your daughter, so what do you think of the new teacher? Um, she's fine. That's what that means? That's what that means. OK.
