Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

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Being aware of these different types of lies and the tactics that liars use to avoid lying directly can help in detecting deception. Paying attention to qualifiers, overly specific details, shifts in language, and appeals to reputation or personal values can be clues to identify when someone is not being truthful. It's important to be vigilant and not solely rely on what is being said, but also how it is being said, and what is being omitted. Understanding the different types of lies and the strategies liars use can help in decoding deception and getting closer to the truth. Summary Note: Unveiling the Physical Signs of Lying: How Stress Manifests in the Body Phil reached his destination sooner than even he expected. In less than an hour, Omar admitted that he had been working for an enemy intelligence service for the full twenty years that he had served as a CIA asset. As former CIA officers, Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero are among the world’s best at recognizing deceptive behavior. Spy the Lie chronicles the captivating story of how they used a methodology Houston developed to detect deception in the counterterrorism and criminal investigation realms, and shows how these techniques can be applied in our daily lives. GROOMING GESTURES. Another way that some people may dissipate anxiety is through physical activity in the form of grooming oneself or the immediate surroundings. Let’s get a sense of what this looks like.

Goyal, N., Sachdeva, N., Choudhary, V., Kar, R., Kumaraguru, P., Rajput, N.: Con2kg-a large-scale domain-specific knowledge graph. In: Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, pp. 287–288. HT 2019, ACM, New York (2019) With bait questions, it is better to be more general. Example, asking if any of the neighbors might have seen Simpson instead of the next door neighbor.Omar shifted in his seat, paused, and with visible discomfort responded with a question: "Can I pray?" VERBAL/NONVERBAL DISCONNECT. Our brains are wired in a way that causes our verbal and nonverbal behaviors to naturally match up. So when there’s a disconnect, we consider that a potential deceptive indicator. To hide their lies people try to show their good side and feeds and their truthfulness. We need to ignore their truthful behaviour do that it is not processed. Ignoring it will help us manage bias, make decisions about persons veracity and filter extra information making deception spotting easy.

Another 'technique' is 'you just bother them with questions' until they admit whatever you want them to. Once again, is it really such an outstanding 'technique'? If the response is yes and names a drug, follow with: “Okay, what other things have you tried?” or “When was the last time you experimented?” Their biases had made it all too easy for them to think the cult leader was lying. This is an example of why we can’t underestimate the power of our biases when we want to sort out the truth. Lesson 2: People give both verbal and nonverbal cues when they’re lying, and you should look for clusters of these. A particular question that often causes revealing unintended messages to surface is one we call the “Punishment Question.” You ask the suspect, “What do you think should happen to the person who did this?” Through fascinating anecdotes from their intelligence careers, the authors teach readers how to recognize deceptive behaviors, both verbal and nonverbal, that we all tend to display when we respond to questions untruthfully. For the first time, they share with the general public their methodology and their secrets to the art of asking questions that elicit the truth.

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The idea is, if you want to know if someone is lying, you need to ignore truthful behavior so that it is not processed. Potthast, M., Kiesel, J., Reinartz, K., Bevendorff, J., Stein, B.: A stylometric inquiry into hyperpartisan and fake news. arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05638 (2017) Overall, "Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception" provides a comprehensive understanding of the techniques and principles of detecting deception. The authors provide practical tips and recommendations for detecting deception in everyday interactions, and provide a roadmap for becoming more aware and more attuned to the subtle cues that indicate deception. Who is the author of Spy the Lie? Still, Phil's job wasn't over. Instead, it took an essential twist. Now he had to be assured that Omar was telling the truth when he claimed to have been working for the bad guys all those years. Remaining squarely in interrogation mode, Phil began asking questions to elicit information that would corroborate Omar's confession. With the truth he managed to conceal for two decades finally exposed, Omar recounted how for years he had to pretend to be a novice when he underwent CIA training—more often than not, he had already received the same training from the bad guys. He began to go into explicit detail about some of his successes against the Americans. One of his accomplishments was particularly chilling. A friend recommended this book for improving interviewing techniques and for learning how to ask better questions. It is written by former CIA officers, contains good information on detecting deception, what questions to ask, and how to ask them. All of the examples in the book are from real-world situations and are relevant and entertaining. My Favorite Quote s

Communication is a complex and non-universal process that makes it challenging to interpret others' messages accurately. Our communication involves both verbal and nonverbal cues, but we struggle to focus on both simultaneously. Our perception of the world often fluctuates between being visually or auditorily dominant, making it difficult to discern others' communicative styles. They are easy for an innocent person to answer. A guilty person has to take time to process, analyze what you might already know, and how their answer could impact their game plan of lying. Phil's colleague caught him at the door as he was leaving their secured location to conduct the interview with Omar. Overly specific answers. Liars tend to give complex and overly detailed answers to questions to sound convincing. Trouillon, T., Welbl, J., Riedel, S., Gaussier, É., Bouchard, G.: Complex embeddings for simple link prediction. In: International Conference on Machine Learning (2016)

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This is a useful and interesting book. I listened to it on tape, then immediately bought two copies. The premise is that lying is something that makes people uncomfortable; while this is a known fact, this book explores some of the behaviors that this discomfort causes. Then, it proceeds to demonstrate these behaviors with excerpts from famous interviews. If this sounds a lot like the show Lie To Me from a few years ago (at least the first season), this is some similiarity. However, the show focused on microexpressions happening in fractions of a second; the book focuses on noticing what people say and how they answer questions rather than requiring you to have incredible detection powers. It even shows how analyzing transcripts can lead to signs of deception. The book highlights that lies of omission are the easiest lies for liars to tell, as they are less direct and involve simply leaving out crucial details. It emphasizes the importance of paying attention to qualifiers or vague language used by individuals when they are recounting a story or answering questions, as it may indicate that they are omitting information or generalizing to avoid lying directly. The book also emphasizes that when someone avoids answering a question altogether or tries to reinterpret it, it may be a sign that they are trying to avoid lying directly. The book provides valuable insights into the tactics used by liars to avoid lying bluntly and how to identify such behavior. It encourages readers to be vigilant and not take everything at face value, but instead to critically evaluate the information provided by others. By being aware of these tactics, readers can become better at detecting lies and identifying when someone is avoiding answering questions directly or omitting crucial details. The conversational and clear tone of The book makes it easy to understand and apply in real-life situations.. Summary Note: Decoding Deception: Understanding Different Types of Lies

Lu, Y.J., Li, C.T.: GCAN: Graph-aware co-attention networks for explainable fake news detection on social media. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11648 (2020) When we communicate with one another, we employ two kinds of communication: verbal, i.e., with our speech, as well as non-verbal, i.e., using body language. Our inability to accurately interpret communication can also be influenced by our own biases, assumptions, and beliefs. We may interpret others' messages based on our preconceived notions, which can cloud our judgment and lead to misinterpretations.urn:lcp:spylieformerciao0000hous:lcpdf:1c2ace56-f5f7-45cb-8a13-69be9df42a0e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier spylieformerciao0000hous Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3f02x13g Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781250029621 See my summary of Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell for more on the topic of unreliable indicators of deception. Final Advice In another one, they manage to observe that a guy who takes off his shoes and curls into an embryo-pose during an interview, is lying. Who would have guessed? One definitely needs to become a spy to learn it, right? INAPPROPRIATE LEVEL OF POLITENESS. We’re certainly not at all suspicious of someone who’s just a nice person. But if, in response to a question, a person suddenly increases the level of nicety, that’s significant. Perhaps the person says, “Yes, ma’am” in that particular response, but at no other time in the interview. Or a compliment might be injected during the response: “That’s a great tie, by the way.” The idea here is that the more we like someone, the more we’re inclined to believe him and to shy away from confrontation. The person is using politeness as a means of promoting his likability. BEHAVIORAL PAUSE OR DELAY. You ask a person a question and you initially get nothing. After a delay, he begins to respond. How long does a delay have to be before it’s meaningful, before you would consider it a deceptive indicator? Well, it depends.