A few days later, my daughter came to visit me at S. Stefano degli Innocenti (that's the name of the asylum; Santo Stefano is the patron saint of thieves and liars, also bakers).
A 1990 study of pathological liars in New York City found that those who could avoid follow-up questions were significantly more successful at their deceptions.
Good liars hold your eye contact longer than normal, as they know people believe this giveaway.
Second, liars use fewer exclusionary words — but, nor, except, whereas.
Yes, I still loathe the liars who run the nuclear industry.
The search for balance does sometimes lead him to give undue weight to shadowy hangers-on: splitting the difference between liars and madmen does not necessarily produce the truth.
An early study of 40 volunteers who were asked to answer truthfully to questions and then to lie found that liars could be identified with 70 per cent accuracy.
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