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As the annual World Series of Poker gets rolling in Las Vegas later this month, hopeful competitors will be buying in and getting their poker faces on.

But why is it such a challenge to recognise deception – both on and off the poker table – even with past experience to draw on and lots of cues seemingly available?

Most of us are proficient liars. We all lie, probably every day, about something or other. Ever answered the standard question of “how are you?” with a less-than-forthright reply?

We understand the concept of lying before we turn four: Charles Darwin reported his son, a few months shy of his third birthday, trying to lie and there are data suggesting the behaviour can manifest from as young as two years.

And just as everyone engages in deceptions, everyone wants to know how to tell if someone else is lying. It seems as though it should be easy – there are “tells”: sweating, eye movements, micro-expressions, changes in body posture and even changes in speech patterns, that can help us recognise a lie.

Those signals are a type of natural polygraph. Like mechanical lie-detector tests, they rely on a set of physiological changes that occur when we lie. Telling a porky pie, even a so-called white lie, requires cognitive and emotional effort.

Lying activates our autonomic nervous system, and the more venal the lie – the more there is at stake – the more activated the autonomic nervous system becomes.

Why is it so hard to detect a lie?

Pants on fire (if only it was that easy)

The answers are surprising.

First, there is “noise” in the lie-detection system: there are many things that activate the human autonomic nervous system.

Nervousness is a good example. People typically get nervous when

they are being interrogated, about anything
they meet for the first time someone to whom they are attracted (which, by the way, is one of the circumstances under which we are very likely to lie about something)
the stakes are high – when much depends on what they do, or how well they do it
there’s confrontation involved: a deadline, great expectations … even in-laws.

When we are nervous we sweat more. We sweat a different type of sweat and so we smell different. We fidget and our hair stands on end. We either don’t make any or make exaggerated eye contact. We change the way we speak and, without knowing it, the pitch of our voice changes.

Those changes also occur when we are lying. So it is a myth that there exists a reliable, unique set of cues that signal someone is lying. Some behavioural cues certainly are correlated with lying, but most of those also are correlated with other behaviours too.

Second, there is the cost to the lie-detector of a “false alarm”. Socially speaking, it’s a high-stakes game: the fear of the damage and embarrassment wrought by mistakenly calling someone out on a lie, combined with the high burden of proof involved, stack the decks against successful “prosecution”.

Perhaps most surprisingly though, we are generally less interested than we think in actually discerning the truth. We are, very often, willing to accept as truth lies that smooth social interactions.

Similarly, lies that are congruent with our world-views or, and especially, with our self-image will less often be “called out”. In other words, we actually are very skilled at not recognising lies.

I lie, therefore I think

Of course, the little white lies we tell to keep conversations flowing or to compliment (or at least avoid offending!) our friend/partner/boss seem hardly interesting. Juicier are the venal deceits that, when detected, leave trust shattered and lives changed. As it turns out, all lies, big or small, are tactical deceptions.

Tactical deceptions require the liar to actively manipulate information to mislead another. They are interesting because the creation of such a deception has been interpreted as evidence that the liar has developed a theory of mind – I lie, therefore I think.

If that is true the implications are broad: both old world and new world monkeys have been observed in tactical deceptions. The same is true for other great apes, and even ravens.

Lies, damned lies, and experts

Mark Twain, lamenting his lack of skill with numbers, stratified statistics as a worse than average form of lying.

Nonetheless – and acknowledging there is no small opportunity for irony when a researcher asks about how often people lie – who lies and how often are open questions across the behavioural sciences.

We do know almost everyone lies. Women and men lie on average equally often, but about different things. There is some evidence too that men are better liars than women.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, estimates of how often we lie vary wildly. That is partly because context is important. Lying is, after all, a type of social glue, and – not surprisingly – people lie in surveys.

So the next time you pull up a chair at the casino or with mates at a poker night, remember – while you may find it hard to tell if your opponents are lying, they’re probably also finding you hard to read.

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Lying is an art form. To be able to come up with the perfect lie and deliver it believably is no easy feat, especially when you’re lying to someone who knows your mannerisms well. For some of us, lying feels impossible. Your palms start to sweat, anxiety runs through your mind, and you know you’re just gonna end up telling the truth anyway. Speaking of which, these zodiac signs are terrible at lying, so if you’ve got placements in Aries, Cancer, Virgo, or Sagittarius, you might as well just be honest, because the truth will set you free — and make you feel better.

Personally, I can relate to being bad at lying. As a Cancer rising, I wear my emotions on my sleeve, so even if I’m saying all the right things, my facial expressions always betray me. If you’re throwing a surprise party for a friend of mine, don’t even tell me, because my excitement will give it away. If I’m talking to someone I have strong feelings toward, my voice will shake or my eyes will roll, and they’ll definitely figure out how I feel toward them. What can I say? At least you can trust me to be honest.

The same goes for the below zodiac signs. Whether they just don’t care enough to lie or they simply can’t help but let the truth shine, lying isn’t something that tends to be in their social tool belt.

Aries: They’re Too Impulsive To Come Up With A Lie

The first sign in the zodiac wheel tends to think with their gut rather than their head, and as you can imagine, this makes it pretty difficult for them to lie. Fabricating the truth takes time, planning, and patience, but an Aries? Their impulse is to just say exactly what they mean and deal with the consequences later. Whether they’re trying to keep a secret or lie about how they’re feeling, it’s always easy for someone to see through it. Probably because they accidentally told the truth.

Cancer: You Can See The Truth Written In Their Eyes

Lying Poker Face Games

When a Cancer needs to lie, they tend to just avoid the subject at all costs. This makes sense when you consider how this zodiac sign is ruled by the crab, a creat