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The Ultimate Body Language Book

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Liars also find it difficult to smile, instead preferring a straight face, but when they do smile, it appears<br />

forced and especially strained showing their underlying stress. Smiling is a subconsciously submissive<br />

gesture and liars often worry about being caught so they feel that smiling might give them away.<br />

<strong>The</strong>refore instead of appearing natural to the person they are lying to, they instead tense up and try to<br />

appear expressionless instead. Smiling can therefore be an effective way to come across as honest,<br />

although smiling too big, for too long or at inappropriate times will have the reverse effect.<br />

Regardless, fake smiles are difficult to distinguish from real smiles and only experts and those reading<br />

this book will know what to look for! That’s why smiling, even if phony, can be effective in influencing<br />

other’s thoughts, emotions and opinions of you so in reality it doesn’t hurt to smile often. If you smile<br />

big, and frequently, those around you might just wonder about what sort of pleasant things are<br />

happening in your life and want some of those good things to rub off on them!

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