Understanding body language and reading people well is a crucial skill for many professionals whose jobs require interviews, interrogations, and information collection and reaction elicitation of others. This workshop leverages state-of-the-art behavioral science about behavioral indicators that have been validly and reliably demonstrated as signs a critical mental states. Topics covered include knowledge and skill…
Read More“Crocodile Tears” Don’t Fool Us
Do you think its easy to fake remorse? New research out of the Centre for the Advancement of Psychology and Law at University of British Columbia and Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, suggests that it may not be as easy as you’d think. For the first time, researchers Leanne ten Brinke , Sarah MacDonald,…
Read MoreA Picture Speaks ONLY a Thousand Words!
Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What exactly can a picture tell you about someone’s character? When trying to detect deception, one has to be very careful to not interpret the wrong information or misread pertinent nonverbal signals of deception such as microexpressions. Many people may have heard of David Loughner. He has been identified…
Read MoreMicroexpressions on CBS’s “The Good Wife”
The science behind reading microexpressions is not something that most people are aware of. It wasn’t until 2009, when Lie to Me began airing, that more people developed some sort of knowledge or interest in the subject. Since then, the subject of deception detection has appeared in the plot lines of several shows. On the…
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