Body language expert claims you can read someone by focusing on just one thing

A body language and behavioural expert recently shared one key sign he always looks for to read a person's true intentions or feelings.

During an appearance on Steven BartlettDiary of a CEO, Chase Hughes shared an intriguing insight: one key indicator of a person's mood is in their eyes – specifically, the rate at which they blink.

"If a person is blinking fast it's a sign of high stress, if they're blinking really slow it's a sign of focus," he explained.

He went on to suggest that a psychopath in an interrogation room or a business deal will almost not blink at all, as "they're very focused on prey" and "they're going to manipulate somebody."

Meanwhile, those feeling anxious or stressed supposedly blink quickly.

"One of the reasons blink rate is so reliable is that it's unconscious," Hughes told Bartlett. "We don't manually control it very well."

Certified DV counsellor Danielle Radin (@danielleradin) echoed a similar sentiment in a viral TikTok clip while discussing how to spot a sociopath. "See how much they're blinking. Sociopaths and psychopaths have to teach themselves to blink more," Danielle told viewers.

It comes after experts at the University of Portsmouth asked 164 people about their level of support for controversial topics in the news at the time such as Covid passports, immigration, Brexit and Boris Johnson. They aimed to accurately point out the liars.

They were asked to either lie or tell the truth again about the same issues. Some were also given the task of remembering a car registration, which they were told was extremely important.

The results found that the stories of the liars were deemed less plausible than the truth-tellers, and this was particularly the case when the liars also had a secondary task to focus on.

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