Overview

• A OnePoll survey of 2,000 UK adults found people hide their feelings about three times a week, with 34% confident in a strong poker face and 25% believing others rarely spot their dishonesty.
• Two thirds think they can detect lies, commonly citing too much or too little eye contact, nervous laughter, and fidgeting, followed by changes in voice, blushing, and sweating.
• Body-language expert Judi James released a Top 15 list of deception cues that includes long pauses, accelerated blinking, higher pitch, incongruent gestures, rigid smiles, and the deliberate use of a poker-face stillness.
• James cautions that these signals can mislead due to the Othello Error, where truthful people under pressure show the same stress behaviors as liars, a pattern she notes is visible on TV shows like The Traitors.
• Lottoland partnered on the research and framing, linking deception skills to poker, as the poll also reports 62% see concealing emotions in public as important and 28% say they suppress feelings most at work.