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This is a continuation of our previous article " Detecting Lies". Many
comments by our visitors have asked about how eye direction can
indicate the presence of a lie.
So can the direction a person's eyes reveal whether or not they
are making a truthful statement? Short answer: sort of.
But, it isn't as simple as some recent television shows or movies
make it seem. In these shows a detective will deduce a person is
being untruthful simply because they looked to the left or right
while making a statement.
In reality, it would be foolish to make such a snap judgment
without further investigation... but the technique does have some
merit. So, here it is... read, ponder and test it on your friends
and family to see how reliable it is for yourself.
Visual Accessing Cues
The first time "Visual Accessing Cues" were discussed (at least
to my knowledge), was by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in their
book "Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) " From
their experiments this is what they found:
When asked a question a "normally organized"
right-handed person looks (from your viewpoint, looking at
them):
Up and to the
Left
Indicates:
Visually Constructed Images
(Vc)
If you asked someone to "Imagine a purple
buffalo", this would be the direction their eyes moved in while
thinking about the question as they "Visually Constructed" a purple
buffalo in their mind.
Up and to the
Right
Indicates:
Visually Remembered Images
(Vr)
If you asked someone to "What color was the
first house you lived in?", this would be the direction their eyes
moved in while thinking about the question as they "Visually
Remembered" the color of their childhood
home.
To the Left
Indicates:
Auditory
Constructed
(Ac)
If you asked
someone to "Try and create the highest the sound of the pitch
possible in your head", this would be the direction their eyes
moved in while thinking about the question as they "Auditorily
Constructed" this this sound that they have never heard
of.
To the Right
Indicates:
Auditory
Remembered
(Ar)
If you asked someone
to "Remember what their mother's voice sounds like ", this would be
the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question
as they "Auditorily Remembered " this sound.
Down and to the
Left
Indicates:
Feeling / Kinesthetic (F)
If you
asked someone to "Can you remember the smell of a campfire? ", this
would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the
question as they used recalled a smell, feeling, or taste.
Down and To the
Right
Indicates:
Internal Dialog (Ai)
This is the
direction of someone eyes as they "talk to themselves".
The Gist of it...
How this information is used to detect
lies:
Example: Let's say your child ask's you for a
cookie, and you ask them "well, what did your mother say?" As they
reply "Mom said... yes." they look to the left. This would indicate
a made up answer as their eyes are showing a "constructed image or
sound. Looking to the right would indicated a "remembered" voice or
image, and thus would be telling the truth.
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