How to tell if someone is lying to you: Watch to see if they mimic your actions

Any poker expert knows the power of ‘tells’ – small actions that indicate a player is trying to deceive their opponent.

Now a new study suggests one of the best ways to tell if someone is lying to you is to see if they mimic your actions.

Dutch researchers from Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam used motion capture to monitor the behaviour of liars as they told increasingly bigger lies to someone else.

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