People with the not entirely singular exceptions of sociopaths, con artistes, pathological liars and actors are terrible liars & open books. Every gesture, facial movement, twitch, globule of sweat and microexpression is a tell and an important factor in reading people and what they are hiding, feeling, thinking about & their personality can be gleamed by an observant persons glance.
To observe instead of simply seeing and not noticing all one has to do is pay attention. You could as Sherlock Holmes did observe rooms, clothing and individual marks that most people don't see such as calluses but there is a second type of observing. Observing of emotions & body language. If one is very observant of a persons facial sequences even a slight twitch of the mouth would go unnoticed and taken into account. Every movement of the eyes, audible breath, clasped hands, brief expression that last next to a second is important and factors into reading people. Most people throughout life learn to tune those out naturally and to see but not observe yet if more people observed yet did not see then society might be a much more unstable place as everyone could tell when another is lying. Lies save wars, relationships and many other things. Thus it is an evolutionary trait that people can read lies and body language to a basic extent but few people can read them to an extent of observing.
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