Thread by @DrGJackBrown

1/ THREAD: Body Language Analysis No. 4612: Kenneth Copeland 'talks to (and grows impatient with) God'

#BodyLanguage #BodyLanguageExpert #KennethCopeland #DupingDelight #Lying #Lie #Deception

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1424176861307940864

2/ There are two primary reasons a person has decreased eye contact during a lie.

3/ First, diminished eye contact is a classic and highly characteristic nonverbal signal that the lying is a *secondary manifestation* (i.e., the lie comes first — and the decreased eye contact is subconscious *result of* their lying).

4/ Sometimes diminished eye contact is manifested by a looking away from the person(s) to who the liar is speaking. When this happens, usually it is down, and primarily it's down and to *their* right.

5/ At other times it is displayed via an increased rate of blinking — thus, less time looking at the audience.

6/ Another way it shows itself is via longer duration blinking.

7/ At still other times, a person will cover their eyes with their hands/fingers whilst they're lying.

8/ All of the above behaviors are subconscious and secondary reactions to the act of lying.

However, the second primary reason a person closes their eyes while lying is exampled here by Kenneth Copeland...

9/ Copeland closes his eyes, often quite tightly, in an effort to over-ride his Duping Delight response display.

10/ A Duping Delight display is one type of smiling and/or laughing *out of context*. It arises because the liar takes true joy-happiness in *his belief* that he's fooling his audience.

11/ Of course, often many (or even all) of the audience is NOT fooled — but the liar often believes it to be so.

12/ Duping Delight displays are also seen when a person knows that others can see their lie/malfeasant behavior — but they believe because of their money/power/position, that they will not suffer any consequences.

13/ Copeland frequently displays each of these two types of Duping Delight — although these are not exemplified in this particular 25 second video clip. Why?

14/ Kenneth Copeland keeps his eyes closed — often very tightly — when he 'talks to God'. This intense/melodramatic neuromuscular action helps to over-ride the tendency to display Duping Delight.

15/ Moreover, Copeland has a similar behavior of contorting much of his face, in a melodramatic and unnatural manner. Again, this helps to over-ride the Duping Delight.

16/ If you've ever bitten the inside of your cheek in an effort not to smile/laugh — or, say, pinched your leg hard in an effort to self-inflict pain — so that you don't smile/laugh, then you've done a similar thing via another method.

17/ In addition, crucially, the mere act of *not looking at* the person/people to whom you are lying — also helps to reduce one's laugh reflex.

18/ It's comical that Copeland acts as if he interrupts God's thoughts (as if he's growing impatient with God). God can read his thoughts, right? So why would he have to 'remind' God that he "will talk about that"?

19/ Intriguingly, at that very moment (Copeland interrupting God's thoughts) Copeland's facial expression is an amalgam of both anger and disgust.

20/ It's quite telling that the man standing behind Copeland rubs his nose/eye/covers face in response to this particular Copeland-God back-and-forth moment, unaware that he's signaling to us that he also thinks Copeland is lying.

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21/ Addendum: There are, of course, many other nonverbal/#BodyLanguage signals of deception/lying — this is but a small sample.