“Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before speech, and apparently eighty percent of what you understand in a conversation is through the body, not through the words” (Bull). When we learn to read the body, it becomes easier to notice if lies are being told. People lie all the time. Whether someone is telling the truth or not can be decided based on their body language alone. Imagine being able to tell when these people were lying? It's not as difficult as you might think. It's all about being able to listen not only to the words coming out of their mouths, but also noticing their body language. As the previous quote suggests, most of the information gathered during a conversation comes from reading the body, not the words. There are many ways to tell if people are lying or not. From head to toe, there are signs everywhere, but they're not always so easy to spot. Starting with the upper body, the head. “As the seat of our brain and sensation centers (ears, nose, mouth, eyes), the head can have 'a mind of its own' when we focus on other things, like keeping a clear story. This means that we are inclined to nod “Yes” even if we say the word “No” or vice versa” (“body”). There are so many examples of this in places you wouldn't even expect to find them. This is one of the easiest ways to notice if you're being lied to. People who haven't rehearsed the lies will only try to focus on the words being spoken, not how their body is moving, including their head. A very clear example of this is a recent interview with famous baseball player Alex Rodriguez. When asked if he used steroids he said no, but clearly in the middle of a paper...meaning? Here's an idea, they do it because they don't get caught. If people learned to read body language using the above, more people would get caught and stop telling these lies. Who knows, maybe the number of people lying would go from sixty percent to thirty percent. It has already been said that on average people tell one lie per day, perhaps this could increase to one per week if people learned to recognize when people are lying. Being able to detect lies would make the world a better place, in a way. Works cited “body”. spot the lies. No. Internet. February 14, 2014. .pease, allan. The definitive book on body language. New York, New York: a division of Random House Inc., 2004. eBook.