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Our communication involves both verbal and nonverbal cues, but we struggle to focus on both simultaneously. The book just repeats that from different angles for 14 chapters, so I just saved you a lot of time.
Lie l Digiday Former CIA Officer Will Teach You How to Spot a Lie l Digiday
Omar shifted in his seat, paused, and with visible discomfort responded with a question: "Can I pray? In this entertaining, instructive, and fascinating book, Phil, Michael, and Susan lay out an easy-to-follow process for detecting deception, with real-life stories that are the stuff of spy novels.
A psychologist at the Agency hammered into us the fact that there’s only a casual relationship between human behavior and logic.
Spy the Lie : Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect
Omar's unblemished record and Phil's certainty that he hadn't been lying in the interview to that point meant there had to be a reasonable explanation for Omar's actions. Just getting Omar to the hotel was a clandestine operation in itself, a carefully choreographed plan that had been carried out with exacting precision to protect Omar from discovery by hostile intelligence services.
Timing: look for the first deceptive behavior to occur within the first five seconds after a stimulus is delivered (a question, for example). For example, if someone claims to have tried marijuana once, instead of asking specific details about the incident, asking a broader question like "What other things have you tried? The key is to maintain a calm and neutral demeanor, ask precise and straightforward questions, and avoid being confrontational or repetitive. Their combined experience will provide you with valuable tools to help you next time you need to sort out the truth.