By Guest Blogger Liespy *Liespy is a regular contributor to David Matsumoto’s blog. She honed her deception detecting skills as a fraud investigator for the insurance industry and employs these skills to analyze the world at large. It depends on the type of lie. “White lies” are considered innocent: we don’t see them as causing…
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By Guest Blogger Liespy *Liespy is a regular contributor to David Matsumoto’s blog. She honed her deception detecting skills as a fraud investigator for the insurance industry and employs these skills to analyze the world at large. We’ve blogged about how learning to read facial microexpressions of emotion can help you see hot spots. If…
Read MoreSo You Want to Be An Expert (part 3 of 3)?
Take Home Points for Step 1 and Step 2 We covered Step 1 and Step 2 in the previous blogs. Let’s review the take home points. Step 1: since the face conveys lots of information, you want to learn what to look for given your specific interest or profession and what you should ignore. This…
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Why Focus on the Face? I wrote previously about how nonverbal behavior (NVB) is a major component of communication, and how facial expressions of emotion are the most important and complex signal system (way of communicating) that humans have. There is evidence to suggest that up to 90% of the meta-messages communicated in any interaction…
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