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Touching the nose has long been use as a ‘tell’ when detecting lies. However, is lying just that easy to<br />

spot?<br />

I’ve been putting off writing this chapter for some time and not for reasons of laziness. In fact, I have<br />

research the topic to death. <strong>The</strong> problem with lying related body language is that it’s not where it needs<br />

to be in order to be useful to the vast majority of people. What research on lie detection, and there is<br />

plenty, tells us, is that there is no definitive traits that give up all liars. Most of the cues are either<br />

anecdotal or happen some of the time, but not all of the time. Other studies tell us that so called experts,

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