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The Ultimate Body Language Book

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idiosyncrasy. Does this mean that every word that comes from their mouth is a lie? It could be, but it is<br />

not likely. Once we’ve caught someone in a lie we can backtrack and look at the clues that preceded the<br />

lie and those that followed the lie to pick up on cues that might have given him away. Poker players do<br />

just this, although for them it’s simpler since there really are only two possible scenarios, he is bluffing,<br />

or he really has a strong hand. Video even provides professional poker players with one hundred<br />

percent of the information at hand, there are no secrets and so baselining can happen very quickly. In<br />

real life, things are not as obvious and there is a lot of gray in between the truth and a lie so it takes a<br />

lot more effort do develop baselines, however with practice even novel situations with unknown people<br />

will begin to appear similar to other past experiences and people. So baselining provides us with<br />

information that we can use in the future when lying or any other emotional behaviour is suspected,<br />

where we can draw from our database of “tells” and make educated guesses about the truthfulness, or<br />

emotional state of our subject or subjects.

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