- Compliments (usually mistaken for commitment).
- Fluff (generics, hypotheticals, and the future).
- Generic claims (“I usually”, “I always”, “I never”).
- Future-tense promises (“I would, “I will”).
- Hypothetical maybes (“I might”, “I could”).
Go deep and ask story-based (space and time) causal questions to avoid the left-brain interpreter effect.
[https://people.psych.ucsb.edu/gazzaniga/PDF/Hemispheric%20differences%20in%20mnemonic%20processing.%20The%20effects%20of%20left%20hemisphere%20interpretation%20(1992).pdf](https://people.psych.ucsb.edu/gazzaniga/PDF/Hemispheric%20differences%20in%20mnemonic%20processing.%20The%20effects%20of%20left%20hemisphere%20interpretation%20(1992).pdf)