The truth about lying: it's the hands that betray you, not the eyes | The Independent: Prof Wiseman, a psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire, said: "The results of the first study revealed no relationship between lying and eye movements, and the second showed that telling people about the claims made by NLP practitioners did not improve their lie detection skills."
A follow-up study involving analysing videos of high-profile press conferences in which people appealed for help in finding missing relatives, or claimed to have been themselves the victims of crime.
While some were telling the truth, others turned out to be lying. There was no evidence of a correlation between lying and eye movements.
Co-author Dr Caroline Watt, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "A large percentage of the public believes that certain eye movements are a sign of lying, and this idea is even taught in organisational training courses.
"Our research provides no support for the idea and so suggests that it is time to abandon this approach to detecting deceit." The research appears in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE.
A follow-up study involving analysing videos of high-profile press conferences in which people appealed for help in finding missing relatives, or claimed to have been themselves the victims of crime.
While some were telling the truth, others turned out to be lying. There was no evidence of a correlation between lying and eye movements.
Co-author Dr Caroline Watt, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "A large percentage of the public believes that certain eye movements are a sign of lying, and this idea is even taught in organisational training courses.
"Our research provides no support for the idea and so suggests that it is time to abandon this approach to detecting deceit." The research appears in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE.