AUDITORY. The person being interviewed is
- Physically unable to answer questions
- Reluctant to answer questions/ evasive
- Answering interviewer’s questions with his/ her own questions
- Repeating your question or asks you to repeat the question
- Continually asks you to clarify the question
- Answering in a shaky voice
- Stuttering
- Experiencing voice cracking/ oral clicking sound/ dry mouth
- Hesitating to speak
- Not answering the question. Responding with unrelated information
- Attempting to answer questions with rehearsed answers
- Attempting to change the subject
- Speaking much faster
- Frequently interrupting
- Pretending to be bored
- Deep sighs
- Repeatedly clears throat
- Yawning (important key)
- Grinds teeth
- Repeating his/ her response two or more times, back-to-back
PSYCHOLOGICAL. The person being interviewed is using the following words or phrases to attempt to influence the interviewer:
- Honestly” – or other words that end in “ly”
- “I know for a fact”
- “Truthfully”
- “Trust me” or “believe me”
- “To be perfectly frank”/ “to be perfectly honest”
- “I swear”
- “I swear” or “I swear to God”
- “May God strike me dead”
- “I wouldn’t lie to you”
- “Just between me and you”