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Human Behaviour-Eye position
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:02 pm
by ashleymac
I am interested in doing a project based on some information my Dad told me. He said that you can tell if a person is telling the truth, or being creative by the way they move their eyes. It has something to do with the fact side and creative side of the brain. When a person is asked a question that they must rely on memory they move their eyes down to the side, if they are making a story up as they go, they tend to move their eyes up to the side. I think this would be an awsome science fair project, but don't know where to look for information or what it is all about. My Dad says it is used by police and other people that interview people.
Ashley
Re: Human Behaviour-Eye position
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 6:18 pm
by deleted-71827
Hi Ashley!
I've heard of that too, it sounds really interesting...I'm not sure if there's a scientific reason behind it but it would certainly be a cool thing to research. Here's a website that might help-
http://www.persuasion-skills.co.uk/syst ... sp?ANUM=17
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies_eyes.php
Good luck!
Re: Human Behaviour-Eye position
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:02 pm
by deleted-71447
Hi,
Interesting project idea. I have heard the same ideas about eye direction and lying. There is a fair amount written about this on the web. This site mentioned by staryl13 has some good info
http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies_eyes.php
You can find more by using a search engine like google.com to search for terms like "visual assessing cues" "eyes" and "lies"
Be careful - much of the information on this topic on the web is "non-scientific" (not supported by scientific experiments). These ideas came out of something called "neuro linguistic programming" (NLP) which is a form of psychotherapy seen by some as an effective method and by others as pure rubbish. The actual research is pretty difficult to find beneath all the casual discussion. It turns out that a fair amount of published research was done on this topic in the 1980's. See page 4-5 of this pdf file (labeled as pages 271-2 in the file)
http://www.mheap.com/nlp1.pdf
You'll see that there are quite a few contradictory studies about the connection between thoughts and eye direction.
I'm looking forward to hearing more about your experiments. I think this will make a fun and interesting project.
Chris