| Recently I saw some daytime television where | | | | out, Eye Accessing Cues can tell us how someone is |
| shows are using Lie detector machines or experts | | | | processing information and not if they are lying. It is |
| who claim they know when someone is lying with | | | | quite common for someone to construct a memory |
| 96% accuracy. Jeremy Kyle, Tricia and Judge Judy | | | | from things they know must have been in the |
| are some. Judge Judy for instance claims to know | | | | memory, a kind of association, one thing leads to |
| when someone is lying by their "Eye Accessing | | | | another. In NLP we use this information gathered |
| Cues," a little more about them in a moment, Jeremy | | | | using this model for rapport and the benefit of our |
| Kyle uses an expert with a lie detector machine and | | | | client's, so it is a very useful model. |
| Tricia uses an interrogation expert. The results and | | | | Eye Accessing Cues Model Explained |
| the shows host's assertions change people's lives; for | | | | The Eye's can be split into three zone, Upper, Middle |
| the good or the worst, only the individual's concerned | | | | and Lower. When the eyes move into the upper |
| will know in time. | | | | zone either left or right the person is processing |
| On one Jeremy Kyle show five linked people took lie | | | | visually, in pictures or movies, when the eyes move |
| detector tests, four came back that they were | | | | left or right in the middle zone, that is horizontally, the |
| telling the truth, the fifth result came back as | | | | person is processing sounds, which we call auditory. |
| inconclusive to one question. Apparently the person | | | | When the eyes move into the lower zone the |
| being tested had a slight reaction, not enough for the | | | | person is either processing through feelings, emotions |
| expert to say they were lying. Jeremy Kyle then | | | | or tactile feelings and playing internal tape loops, |
| added, "One day you may tell her the truth." This | | | | called inner dialogue. Generally a right-handed person |
| was a very damaging remark because of the | | | | will look up and to their left to remember pictures or |
| implications that the person was lying, which even | | | | movies and right to construct pictures or movies, |
| the PolyGram expert said was inconclusive. | | | | look left in the middle zone to remember sounds and |
| One NLP operating presupposition is, "Memory and | | | | middle right to construct sounds, look down and to |
| imagination use the same neurological pathways and | | | | the left for internal dialogue and down right for |
| have the same potential impact." I could ask an | | | | emotions and tactile feelings. The big misconception is |
| embarrassing question say to a heterosexual male | | | | that if a person is constructing either pictures or |
| such as, "Have you ever kissed a man?" The answer | | | | sounds they are lying. The only thing it means, if they |
| to this question is most likely yes, because we kissed | | | | are right-handed and conform to the model, is that |
| mummy and daddy goodnight. However the | | | | they are processing information by constructing |
| implication of the question could be taken differently. | | | | rather than it being a remembered picture or |
| Now a "No" answer would be a lie, potentially worse | | | | remembered sequence of sounds. |
| is that the individual may have fantasied about kissing | | | | Let me give you an example. If I asked you what |
| another man and this would spring into their mind. | | | | you had for dinner on a Wednesday four weeks ago, |
| Here the "No" answer would be true though could | | | | can you remember? Some people can, some will |
| easily show as a lie on a PolyGram report. | | | | work backwards and reconstruct, piece together, |
| There is a big difference between "The Truth" and | | | | what they had and others like me would not have a |
| someone lying. If someone believes what they are | | | | clue. |
| saying, then they are telling "Their Truth." For | | | | The Eye Accessing Cues is a model, not everyone |
| example four people can witness an accident; there | | | | conforms to it, not all left-handed people are the |
| will be four different versions of what happened. | | | | reverse of the right-handed model. The only way to |
| They can all be telling their truth and yet all four may | | | | find out how a person is processing information is to |
| not be telling "The Truth," that's why the Police have | | | | check it out on an individual basis. Remember that |
| special accident investigators. Our truths are | | | | this is only a model of someone's processing and not |
| subjective and are limited by our sensory equipment, | | | | a lie detecting model. Also remember that a |
| sight, hearing, feeling, taste, smell and what we pay | | | | constructed picture or sound, once constructed can |
| attention to at any one time. | | | | become a memory and change to a remembered |
| The lie detector or PolyGram only detects changes in | | | | picture or sound. |
| emotions; it cannot tell if someone is lying. I will | | | | Conclusions on lying |
| repeat that last bit, "It cannot tell if someone is lying," | | | | If someone is willing to deliberately tell lies so the |
| only that the individual had an emotional reaction to | | | | observer or a PolyGram operator can calibrate to the |
| the question asked or their interpretation and | | | | act of lying, then they are asked simple questions of |
| association's to the question. This is the same for the | | | | no value, for example they turn over a deck of |
| so called experts. The only real way of telling if | | | | cards one at a time and they can either tell the |
| someone is lying is for them to tell you they lied | | | | observer the truth or a lie about the card's suit, then |
| otherwise it can only be the experts opinion. Anyone | | | | an accurate indication of the lie can be obtained. Ask |
| wanting more technical information about the | | | | them a question about something that is important to |
| PolyGram can visit | | | | them, then you might get a reaction that might be |
| Firstly let's look at the advice of the world's foremost | | | | considered a lie and still you won't know for sure if |
| expert in lie detection and FBI interview trainer Paul | | | | they are telling the truth or lying, especially if they |
| Eckman PhD. "There is NO ONE THING that a person | | | | believe what they are saying is "Their Truth," unless |
| may or may not do that indicates they are lying." | | | | they then tell you or you have evidence to prove a |
| Paraphrased, "There are indications of inconsistency | | | | lie. |
| which need to be gone over again and again and | | | | Be careful what you consider to be a lie, as |
| areas where corroborating evidence needs to be | | | | everyone's truth is only as good as their senses and |
| sort." Eye accessing cues are the movements our | | | | what they paid attention too consciously and no |
| eye's make when we are seeking information from | | | | truth is the "Whole Truth," as we all Delete Distort |
| our memory banks or constructing, making-up | | | | and Generalise and that's another useful NLP Model. |
| something, in our head. With calibration, checking it | | | | |