Detecting Deception: Are You Being Lied to?

Written for Tactics and Preparedness, Issue 6, April 2014 By Dr. Hyi Sung Hwang and Dr. David Matsumoto Behavioral anomalies are verbal and nonverbal signs of cognitions and emotions that give additional clues to what an individual is thinking and feeling beyond the content of the words being spoken. We can improve our ability to…

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Speak The Truth, Even If Your Voice Shakes

In an interesting piece on Forbes entitled “Speak the Truth, Even if Your Voice Shakes“, Amy Rees Anderson gives some valuable tips about being honest on the job, especially if you are in a leadership role. Through her experience as a CEO she says “I found that one of the toughest things to teach people…

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Genuine Sadness or Posed Grief? Gerard Baden-Clay

The story of murdered mother Allison Baden-Clay has gripped Australia for the past several months. Allison’s husband Gerard Baden-Clay was accused and convicted of killing his wife Allison at their home in the affluent western Brisbane suburb of Brookfield on April 19, 2012, and dumping her body on the banks of Kholo Creek at Anstead…

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Cherry Trees & Honesty

How do we get our children to have moral integrity and tell the truth, at least when it really matters?  Most of us have a hard time telling the truth ourselves, let alone teaching a child the intricacies of truth telling and the importance of  being honest. Kang Lee, a professor of human development and…

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