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E101 — Signs Of Deception — Deception Tips Podcast
Deception Tip 101: Learn to recognize the signs of deception and remember to watch for clusters of behavior. Liars always display more than one sign.
Hello and welcome to the Deception Tips podcast where you will learn amazing cues to detect deceit that will help you read people like never before. I’m your host Spencer Coffman, let’s get started.
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Hello and welcome to Deception Tip episode number 101. Thank you so much for getting this far, this will be the last Deception Tip episode, so thank you again for getting here. This is great, you’ve listened to 100 other deception tips, this is 101, congratulations, you have made it, let’s get started, let’s dive right in.
Last week, we talked about how liars may use jargon or details or extra stuff to sound more intelligent, they want to sound smarter and more believable. Remember, the goal of someone who lies, they have several goals but the main goal is to get the target to believe their lie.
Not only are they trying to convince the target of their lie but they’re also trying to convince themselves of the lie and those around them. In addition, they are so stressed and so worried because they have to keep the lies straight, remember it all, convince themselves, and convinced the target.
They’re probably trying to lie about something to avoid a consequence or cover something up, so they’re also worried about that then they’re worried about getting caught. If that’s not enough, they’re worried about the punishment of the lie on top of the crime, if they do get caught, so there is so much going on inside of them.
In addition to all of that, they have their conscience telling them lying isn’t right, so now they’re worried about that. All of this is boiling up inside of them, it’s stress, it’s worry, it’s tension. All of this is boiling up and that’s why they display so many of these deception signs, this body…
