It's previously been believed that people look up to their right when they are lying, researchers have found that to be untrue. Photo / Thinkstock
For decades, experts have been convinced that eye movements reveal when someone is lying.
Psychologists believed that looking up to the left indicated honesty, while looking up to the right signalled a lie.
But there is in fact no link between lying and eye movements, according to research.
Scientists filmed
the eye movements of a group of volunteers as they told the truth or lied.
A second group watched the films and tried to detect the lies by watching the eye movements.
