Non-verbal signals by politicians?

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I wonder if this is the ultimate way to determine when politicians are lying.... well, other than their mouths are open and they're speaking!  LOL
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Going through the political motions: The role of body language in opinion formation
September 16, 2013

A new research project analyses the importance of body motion in the formation of individual opinions about politicians. The aim of the project, which is funded by the FWF, is to identify movement patterns that play a key role in such opinion formation. A previously developed method enables the analysis of real politicians' movement patterns while simultaneously concealing their physical appearance. In this way it is possible to analyse other factors that influence opinion formation – for example, physical appearance and gender – separately from movement patterns.

Politics abounds with dynamic moments – not least when politicians jump up to speak and address the public using their entire bodies. The impression they make on such occasions is often formed less by the words they speak than by the non-verbal signals they transmit. This has been demonstrated scientifically. Such signals include their appearance, intonation, posture and movements. However, the extent to which these signals contribute to the opinion formed of politicians has not been widely studied up to now, particularly in relation to body motion. This gap in the research is now being filled by Dr. Markus Koppensteiner from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vienna.

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