How can we tell if someone is lying to us? This is an age old problem that comes up in relationships again and again.

Recently I read a book that gives a lot of tips on how to deal with a situation where we suspect that someone might be trying to lie to us or bluff us.

This book is called "Get Anyone to do Anything" by David J. Lieberman. His methods are based on many years of research into human behavior.

How can we tell when someone is lying to us about an important matter? Usually, when we try to ask questions of a person who has decided to lie to us, they will continue sticking to their story.

You might get the suspicion that the other person is not telling you the truth. Sometimes we feel this suspicion because we are naturally suspicious and have a hard time trusting anybody. But sometimes we are suspicious because we sense that something is wrong, and that the other person is lying to us.

David Lieberman suggests that sometimes we can flush out a lie by introducing a made up "fact" related to the other person's story. Make the "fact" you introduce sound like a plausible story. That means, it sounds as if it could have really happened, but it didn't. Then watch how the other person reacts.

For example, if the other person says "I was at the Royal Theater for the six o'clock movie" you can say, "I heard on the news there was a big accident outside the Royal Theater just before six."

If the person was really there, he will immediately tell you, "No, there wasn't any accident" and will appear quite calm about it.

However, if they weren