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I’ve been watching Lie to Me at Fox every Wednesday … and I must say its quite fascinating. I’ve always find it cool to be able to read body language.  Is he giving me a fake smile or genuine, is he lying or not, what does shrug of the shoulder mean? Those are some of the things that you can see on the show but these are real-life scientific discoveries of Paul Ekman.

I read up on  the connection of eye movement and lying … i found one very useful diagram called Visual Accessing Cue.

Visually Constructed Images (Vc)
If you asked someone to “Imagine a purple buffalo”, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they “Visually Constructed” a purple buffalo in their mind.

Visually Remembered Images (Vr)
If you asked someone to “What color was the first house you lived in?”, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they “Visually Remembered” the color of their childhood home.

Auditory Constructed (Ac)
If you asked someone to “Try and create the highest the sound of the pitch possible in your head”, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they “Auditorily Constructed” this this sound that they have never heard of.

Auditory Remembered (Ar)
If you asked someone to “Remember what their mother’s voice sounds like “, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they “Auditorily Remembered ” this sound.

Feeling / Kinesthetic (F)
If you asked someone to “Can you remember the smell of a campfire? “, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they used recalled a smell, feeling, or taste.

Internal Dialog (Ai)
This is the direction of someone eyes as they “talk to themselves”.

I believe this suggests that if someone is lying they look to the right which indicates a made up answer as their eyes are showing a “constructed image or sound”.