I have couple of female friends that I noticed when I engage them in some interesting topic they stick their tongue out to the side of the mouth. Not sure about what this might mean. Joe Navarro in his book "what everybody is saying" referred to this action as a self comforting sign when done inside the mouth, but not sure what it means when the tongue is stuck outside. Any ideas?!

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I know body language can be read to determine whether one is being deceitful among telling what one is thinking. I know this is a page focused on body language, however I couldn't find anything on Google, and didn't know who else to ask about this. So delete if not allowed.

My dad and I both, can tell when someone is lying purely based on voice alone. It's made it really hard to trust anyone. Because most people we meet and talk to, are quite deceitful individuals.

I myself play a lot of online gaming, and I meet a lot of really cool and respectful individuals from all over. I've always been able to tell when someone is lying in online party chats, as well as in real life.

To give an example if someone says "yea I don't care about others and I only care about myself, I could probably kill someone if I needed to easily with no feeling whatsoever and I just don't give a shit." Even if they claim to believe that, deep down they know it isn't so, and I can pick up on it by slight variations in their voice.

My reason for writing this all is to pose the question; can others read deceit from voice alone, or are my dad and I just a special case?

Hi, my first post here, so apologies if this is too HC for this subreddit (I've read the rules).

Sauce is local Czech (Ostrava) news report that I just ran into ... 28 yo lady killed 40 yo male friend by stubbing him to the chest in Ostrava-Muglinov (rather brutal part of the town).

The way the lady reacts on hearing the sentence, how she looks at her partner (surprise mixed with fear IMO) and the full grief that goes right into hysteria.

There is a lot of contempt, duping delight, anger a tiny bit of disgust ...

I am not sure about the husband reaction (maybe little bit of anger and some distancing?) but he's telling her "<Name>, buď zticha!" which means "<Name>, shut up".

The whole thing is in Czech so let me know if something more should be translated.

Link from FB

https://youtu.be/mkJBABGWfGY

I notice that I'm constantly aware of my and other's body language and I feel bad anytime I look down when I'm walking past someone or I'm not squaring my shoulders when I pass a bigger guy than me. For example today I was at the store and this guy just walked past me head up. I looked down at my basket as I was pushing by his locked path. I moved out of his way for politeness not out of intimidation and I could tell that he had this "yeah I'm the boss he looked down" type of strut and it made me angry.

But I'm also sitting here questioning why I should even care how others observe my body language as long as I'm comfortable with how I'm walking? I do think there is importance of displaying important body language in situations such as a job interview or in the military, but at the store when I'm trying to get some milk in front of some guy who I don't know and I may or may not see again? Now I'm not no punk but I'm not confrontational either unless I need to be. I guess this is more of a rant than anything.

On how to read Body language more effectively? I’m Well aware that this is my biggest weakness when talking with people. Which takes away so many oppertunities in life.