Almost everything you were told about spotting a liar is wrong, and believing it makes you worse at it. Gaze aversion, fidgeting, nervousness, none of them reliably indicate deception, and watching for them sends you straight for the honest, anxious person.

This is a self-paced method built on what actually works. Telling the truth means recalling; lying means constructing, and a constructed account has a different shape. So you read the story, not the nerves, raise the difficulty until the strain shows, ask the questions a liar could not rehearse, and push for what can be checked. You take a cold read at the start, learn nine moves, then read a fresh case and see how your reasoning has changed.

Sub Superficie.