Liar you Lie

Jessica was in our room again, and she was talking about something more interesting this time. No, it was not about anime or her favorite band, but something more serious: Psychology.

Funny… She just taught me how to know what is going on inside a person’s brain by reading the involuntary movements of the eyes. This was not mind reading or something like that. Basically, you are just trying to know HOW the brain is working; the “thought process” as Jess referred to it. Is he trying to recall something? Is he creating something inside his mind? Then you connect what you see with his answers to the questions you asked. So actually, you are just analyzing HOW he thought. The whole concept was based on the fact that areas in our brain are specialized and that certain muscles are connected to these areas. It is similar to why left-handed people are more creative while those that are right-handed are more rational.

We just finished making lab rats out of our dorm mates. I can attest that the technique really works. I’m sorry, I can’t tell anything more about it because I promised Jess that I would keep it a secret. But really, it is a good way to catch someone who is lying.

This reminded me about the LifeSci film featuring facial expressions as windows to a person’s heart. It was a nice documentary. I could not believer you could actually tell what kind of relationships a person would most likely have just by looking at how he smiles at pictures.

And it kept me thinking too, about the guy who has a case of autism that makes him unable to recognize people emotions through facial expressions. He said he needed to study that. I wonder how he did it; because it to comes too naturally – at least for sensitive people – to recognize other people’s emotions that I could not magine ow someone could study that successfully. Jess said that is easy. I dare not contravene.

It suddenly crossed my mind that secrets agents study facial expressions, as mentioned from the film, because the knowledge is very useful with their type of work. That is why they can know how a person feels even if the person himself is not aware of the feeling. Although it seems so hard, there is this biological connection that signals a person if that someone he is speaking to is lying. This connection might also be the reason why emotions are contagious. I don’t remember this emotional bridge being explained in the film; it wasn’t in the books either. Maybe it is still a mystery as of now.