Telling Lies – Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics & Marriage Rev: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics and Marriage - Softcover

Ekman, Paul

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9780393321883: Telling Lies – Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics & Marriage Rev: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics and Marriage

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ISBN 10: 0393321886 ISBN 13: 9780393321883

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002

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From breaking the law to breaking a promise, how do people lie and how can they be caught? Ekman study describes how lies vary in form and can differ from other types of misinformation, as well as how a person's body language, voice, and facial expressions can give away a lie but still escape detection.

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"[A] wealth of detailed, practical information about lying and lie detection and a penetrating analysis of the ethical implications." --Jerome D. Frank, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

"Intriguing." --Kirkus Reviews

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From breaking the law to breaking a promise, how do people lie and how can they be caught?

In this revised edition, Paul Ekman, a renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communication, adds a new chapter to present his latest research on his groundbreaking inquiry into lying and the methods for uncovering lies. Ekman has figured out the most important behavioral clues to deceit; he has developed a one-hour self-instructional program that trains people to observe and understand micro expressions; and he has done research that identifies the facial expressions that show whether someone is likely to become violent a self-instructional program to train recognition of these dangerous signals has also been developed.

Telling Lies describes how lies vary in form and how they can differ from other types of misinformation that can reveal untruths. It discusses how a person s body language, voice, and facial expressions can give away a lie but still fool professional lie hunters even judges, police officers, drug enforcement agents, and Secret Service agents.

[A] wealth of detailed, practical information about lying and lie detection and a penetrating analysis of ethical implications. Jerome D. Frank, The John Hopkins School of Medicine

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