Posted on 08/25/2021 4:18:54 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
In this participatory session, you will learn how to tell when someone is lying. Really. As a former CIA Officer with more than 20 years of experience in interviewing, interrogation and polygraph examination, Susan has seen her share of truth avoiders. She has, in fact, developed behavioral screening programs that are used by the federal government. ...
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I think all we need to do, is see if their lips are moving. 😀
bkmk
If its a government employee, elected official, or member of the media, and they are talking, responding to questions in any format, or writing an “article” they are lying.
its really that easy. Try it out.
Yeah. We don’t need no stinkin CIA to tell us how.
I find this interesting, because I have always found body language to be interesting.
I have always had a problem with people who are being deliberately deceptive, and part of that is probably that I reflect back my own values...which is a problem.
I have always tried to be straightforward in all my dealings with people, business and personal, and...I have on more than a few occasions ended up on the rocks due to that mistake. I have gotten better as I grow older, which is probably expected.
Sigh. I can *still* be very naïve to the point my wife rolls her eyes at me. But I try not to put my foot as squarely in it as I have on occasion in the past.
Check their voter registration.
I have a friend who was a Homicide detective in a mid size city for almost 20 years. Besides the nightmares he still has, one of the biggest curses of the job he says, is that you become a human lie detector due to all of the interviews you conduct. He says almost everyone lies to some degree, even if only tiny white exaggerations, and he says it makes one very distrusting of almost everyone. He also says you learn quickly that a large portion of the population has hidden lives which even those closest to them have no idea of.
LOL...I get that completely. On the other hand, who better to learn about deception and lying from than the people who do it as naturally as breathing!
I have long had an interesting dilemma. I have two diametrically opposed paths of discourse-
In the first, I tend to fall into the trap of assuming that if I am straightforward and honest with someone, that will be reciprocated, which as I have gone through life, seems laughable to me, but there it is. Because I found that there are people who will not only not reciprocate, but will leverage that disadvantage I have placed myself in to use to their advantage.
In the second...I occasionally get extremely negative gut feelings from encounters with people I don’t know and have never met that I find hard to ignore. I find them very disconcerting, and...they don’t always pan out. As a matter of fact, I doubt if it is better than 50-50 accuracy. I just had this on a conference call within the last few weeks.
There were a lot of people on the call, it was pretty high level, and I got very negative gut feelings from one person I had never met. It was one of their top salesperson, and my initial gut feelings were that this person could in no way be trusted, and I developed a rapid superficial dislike for this person.
Afterwards, in discussing this with my team, nobody else felt or saw it that way, and I thought a lot about it. I don’t get those feelings often, but when I do, I think about them. I don’t know what triggers it. Sometimes it is verbal. Sometimes it is visual. Sometimes both.
It is a puzzle to me, and I have always hoped there would be some way for me to run these things down and put them to bed.
If I had a better than 50-50 accuracy, I would likely view it as a tool. Instead, it seems to be something that can fog my vision and impair my decision making.
BTTT
Exactly. Your whole post was spot on to me.
One of things I both like and dislike about police officers I have known, is that they ARE human lie detectors. I respect it because...they have to be able to spot BS quite quickly, and experienced ones get good at it.
The bad thing is, they are human, so their human foibles that everyone is susceptible to can get in the way and cloud their vision.
Like all of us, they can be their own worst enemy in this, but...having to deal with the seamy underbelly of human nature, you have to learn how to do that quickly and relatively accurately.
Especially today.
But they don’t seem to be able to turn it off. They always appear to be sizing everyone up all the time, including their family, friends, and co-workers.
I suspect that is one of the reasons that marriages and other relationships take a bigger hit on people in Law Enforcement than in many others.
If a politician’s lips are moving, they are lying.
Bookmarking as well, this is proving to be an incredibly interesting thread.
I asked a cop buddy if the job caused him to profile everyone. He said yes. He had to if he wanted to survive.
So will being a mortgage loan underwriter for ten years. 😆
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