The entire 1970s movement that launched the notion of a link between eye movements and lying has itself been called “nonsense" and a "pseudoscience.” ...

Conventional wisdom has it that when people talk, the direction of their eye movements reveals whether or not they're lying. A glance up and to the left supposedly means a person is telling the ...

Researchers tested eye movement and honesty in multiple ways. For example, they tracked the eye movements of subjects who were lying or telling the truth about things they had recently done.

The eyes don't have it: New research into lying and eye movements. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 07 / 120711205943.htm ...

People whose pattern of eye movements changed between the first and second scenario were assumed to be lying, while those who maintained consistent eye movement were assumed to be telling the truth.

It is often claimed that even the most stone-faced liar will be betrayed by an unwitting eye movement. But new research suggests that that "lying eyes", which no fibber can avoid revealing, are ...

The belief that your eyes can reveal if you're lying is a myth, according to U.K. researchers. Some psychologists think that people look up to their right when they're lying and look up to the left ...

While the idea that eye movements like shifty eyes or looking up and to the right indicate lying is a common belief, psychological research doesn't strongly support this notion.