Eyes for Lies blog has been visited by The Weblog Review, and critiqued. I love critiques — as they can only help me learn and grow.
Check it out, and after you read the review — you, too, can vote.
I’m all for making improvements — so if you have any suggestions or ideas — feel free to share them here.
I think the critique made a couple of good suggestions. Now if I could only find more material to write about, I’d have it made!!
Cheers!
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You’ve landed on the blog of a “natural”
as depicted in the show “Lie to Me”
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I posted a smile test on my blog back in 2005. I thought I would post about it again for all my new readers.
Can you spot a fake smile? Take the test created by Dr. Paul Ekman, and see.
Last time I took it, I scored 15 out of 20 correct. I had forgotten about this test completely (I had no memory of it!), so I took it again. This time, I scored 18/20.
What did you score?
I see it over and over again: “Honesty is not always the best policy.”
Why do you believe this?
I’d love it if you’d share it with me.
Yesterday Oprah had on Criss Angel. I had never heard of the man before. He is an illusionist and his first trick was right up my alley. I rather enjoyed it, and I will have to give it a try myself.
For his first trick, Criss asks Oprah to choose a number between 1 and 100. “I’m a student of humanity, of behavior, and I’m going to show you how I use psychology and your mannerisms to get inside your head, Oprah, and tell you what you’re thinking,” he says.
As Criss closes his eyes, Oprah writes her number on a piece of paper and shows it to the audience. Once she hides her choice from his sight, Chris studies Oprah closely, while talking through several numbers. Then he announces his pick. “It has to be eleven.” And, he’s right!
Thankfully, the camera zoomed into Oprah’s face enough that you could actually see her eyes grow wider when Criss said the number 11.
Criss told Oprah that he was going to asked her outright what the number she wrote down was BUT HE TOLD HER not to respond to him. He even told her she could try to throw him off, if she wanted. Adding more stress to Oprah only adds more clues, if she so tries.
“Is the answer 1-10, 11-20, 21-30,” he asked. As he asked Oprah, he studied her face. He used non-verbal clues to guide him.
He then narrowed it down to 11 to 20. He verbally said while watching her face, is it 11, 12, 13, 14…and as he said “11” Oprah’s eyes grew open wide for a second. It was all Criss needed.
He talked about Oprah blinking as well which was a clue for him (I don’t quite understand that) — but I certainly saw Oprah give a non-verbal clue to the number 11. So much so, I am dying to try this trick on someone!
It’s fun and fascinating — even if I don’t master this one — I love some of the “magic” behind it! Good old psychology and facial expressions. They speak volumes.
Do know that I don’t think this is fool-proof. I do realize this man is an illusionist. But some people will leak clues. How many and how often, I have no idea.
