How to read eyes for lies

Researchers at the University of Utah in the USA assert that your eyes are better than a polygraph test in detecting lies. Here are some ways you can become a better eye-BS reader.

The psychologists explained, in a University of Utah announcement on July 11, that eye-tracking technology differs from a polygraph, a measurement of an emotional response to lying, as it maps out an individual's cognitive response that includes "pupil dilation, response time, reading and rereading time, and errors."

John C. Kircher , PhD, an educational psychology professor, concluded that their eye-tracking tests that included participants responding to a set of computerized true/false questions are "as good as or better than the polygraph, and we are still in the early stages of this innovative new method to determine if someone is trying to deceive you."

If you would like to learn how to read eyes for lies in a more simplistic way, Bifaloo.com graphs visual accessing cues to help you become a lie detector: http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies_eyes.php

Additional cues to look for in eyes during a lie may include:
 - avoiding direct eye contact
 - excessive blinking
 - eyes shifting towards their upper left

Eye-tracking could soon lead to sophisticated new products and techniques as Credibility Assessment Technologies (CAT) has licensed the technology from Kircher et al at the University of Utah.

However there are many human deception detectors, like on the American television series Lie to Me, the blogger and deception specialist Eyes for Lies writes she has "96.9% accuracy rate (to date) after identifying truth and deception in 31/32 people before the truth was known by watching media clips." She emphatically discourages identifying a liar solely on reading eyes: http://blog.eyesforlies.com