Con Men and Predators Will Look You in the Eye

Eye contact. It’s a sign of truthfulness.

The problem is that swindlers, con men and sex offenders have known this for centuries.

Psychologist Anna Salter, says, "If a sex offender is breathing who doesn’t know to keep good eye contact when hcs lying, I haven’t met him yet. Eye contact is universally known to be a sign of truth-telling. People can fake eye contact; therefore, in reality, it absolutely is not a sign of truth-telling because liars will fake anything it is possible to fake—a commonsense conclusion that research confirms."

A man who raped dozen of children told Anna, "The manner that I use when I was trying to convince somebody— even though I knew I was lying—I’d look them in the eye. but I wouldn’t stare at them. Staring makes people uncomfortable and that tends to turn them away, so I wouldn’t stare at them. But look at them in a manner that, you know, look at this innocent face. How can you believe that I would do something like that?” It helps if you have a good command of the vocabulary where you can explain yourself in a way that is easily understood. Dress nice. Use fluent hand gestures that are not attacking in any way."◦

Con Men and Predators Will Look You in the Eye