In one experiment, the scientists even told one group of participants about the NLP eye-movement hypothesis.

Proponents of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) have long claimed that it is possible to tell whether a person is lying from their eye movements.

A new study found no backing to the belief that looking up to the right indicates a person is lying. Researchers found no connection at all between lying and the direction of eye movements.

The claimed link between lying and eye movements is a key element of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), a method of enhancing people's lives using psychological techniques.

The first involved 32 right-handed people, aged 18 to 56. (NLP literatures claims the eye movement/lying relationship is strongest in right-handed people).

In a second study, Wiseman and his team give participants a lesson on neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) - the field of science that has linked eye movement to lying.

Conventional wisdom has it that when people talk, the direction of their eye movements reveals whether or not they're lying. A glance up and to the left supposedly means a person is telling the ...