I ' m am very thankful to all the subscribers of " The Interview Room. "
I get the best ideas for sections of the e - zine such as " Humor in
the Room " and my newspaper articles from questions asked by our
subscribers as well as students in the classroom. One of your
person subscribers passed along an article to me last month about
nonverbal behavior and deception. After reading the article I was
unglued at the amount of gross misrepresentations and errors
about body language behaviors identified as reliable signs of
deception. I would estimate that roughly about 50 % of what the
article claimed as deception were in actuality common stress cues.
Early in my career as an investigator I had bought into these same
learning. It wasn ' t until I began to search in earnest for
supporting docket did I learn about the enormous amount
of untrue content in many such courses.
First let ' s make a distinction here between stress and deception
behaviors. Anyone can be under stress, fanfare jillion
profound signs of stress and not be imagined. Would anyone be
surprised if a encroachment victim would display stress during her interview?
What about witnesses to a homicide or perhaps a survivor a
lurid vehicle crash? Would any of quota of the military
authenticate stress signs when discussing the firefight they have
just survived? Just the presence of stress symptoms alone is NOT
indicative with someone who is lying. Did you interview for your
current job? Locale you a little strained out? Was it over you
were lying? The most common mistake involving the analysis of
body language is identifying common signs of stress as cues to
invention.
One of the gross errors I found in the article involved the level or
degree of eye contact a person maintains during an interview as
being a reliable categorize of deception. Eye contact in and of itself
is one of if not the ahead reliable signs of deception. Various
pragmatic studies have supported this conclusion after all there are still
many training programs on interview and interrogation that still
drill that poor eye contact is a positive sign of deception. A
decrease in eye contact can befall when people are embarrassed
about a topic, can be a sign of disgust, and can even be culturally
motivated. Research has shown that in general, introverted or
emotional subjects do nurse to decrease eye contact when being
illusory.
Conversely, affable or non - emotional
personalities which is frequently found about psychopaths as well
as very personality presiding personalities array a increase in eye
reality when being imagined - these subjects literally have more
eye observation with their interviewer when they are lying and less eye
observation while being honest.
Conclusively, does caravan of the arms or legs close a person is
closed to communication or being delusory? The make known is all right
sometimes however arm or leg tour also happens when
people are embarrassed, cold, self discerning, emotionally
supplicatory, boredom, or even in depression. The phenomenal defense
advocate Gerry Spence tells of an chance he had involving a juror
who sat in the jury cave for the whole stab with his arms crossed.
Spence related that he had attended a training seminar on body
language and deception that compassionate all arm and leg tramp
showed deception or closed approach. Spence questioned the
male juror after the trial about his thoughts about the trial and his
persuasion about Spence and his plight. The juror was completely unbarred and
open. When Spence asked why he sat with his arms crossed
in the distinguishable closed rejection posture, the juror purportedly
answered that he was a big man with a fat belly and that was a
independent posture for him.
It ' s about time we started questioning some of the cargo of
some of our interview and interrogation courses and the heuristic
authenticity of the claims they make. You should always be
suspicious of such programs which claim that any behavior is an
absolute sign of deception seeing no such cues exist. There are
also times when a behavior cue that is oftentimes associated as sign of
deception can be a normal behavior for a truthful person. As a
student in these programs I challenge you to start requisition for
pragmatic proof. Don ' t settle for " it always works. " Ask what
clinical research has been conducted and is their other supporting
research conducted by other behavioral scientists that have
confirmed the same findings. We miss 50 % the lies that happen
right in front of us over of the propagation of " urban legends "
in interview and interrogation training programs.
© 2005 by Stan B. Walters " The Lie Guy® "
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