Kirsty King
Lecturer in communication at University College London and author of The Language of Lies, specializing in linguistic markers of deception and forensic discourse analysis.
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Mar 9, 2026 • 38min
The best ways to spot a liar
Dr Kirsty King, a UCL communication lecturer and author of The Language of Lies, studies linguistic markers of deception. She explains how people distance themselves with nouns and passive voice. She highlights missing sensory and emotional words, shifts in concrete versus abstract terms, and paraverbal cues like pauses and pitch. She also discusses tactics to disrupt false accounts with unexpected questions.
