Poor Man's Polygraph Part 1 Poor Man's Polygraph - Part 1 The Well... Technique Imagine you think your spouse is having an affair. Imagine your child comes home late and you suspect shenanigans. Imagine your clients or employees mislead you. The Poor Man's Polygraph consists of a series of techniques that increase the probability of detecting deception, The Poor Man's Polygraph provides deceptive indicators, not proof of deception. Well... When you ask someone a direct Yes or No question and they begin their answer with the word "Well," there is a high probability of deception. Dad : Did you finish your homework? Dad need not wait for his daughter to finish her answer because he knew by her use of the word "Well" that she was about to give him an answer she knew he was not expecting. In another example, I interviewed a person who I thought witnessed a murder. Me : Did you see what happened? I asked the witness a direct Yes or No question to which he knew I expected a "Yes" answer.
How to Read Someone’s Mind | Reading someone's mind Reading someone’s mind through telepathy has a long and legendary history. But if you want to have this ability too, you may have to rethink what mind reading is. If you envision closing your eyes and having someone from across a stage project their thoughts into yours, so that you can “hear what they’re thinking,” you are out of luck. Cold Reading is actually a set of techniques developed to give the appearance of reading someone’s mind. Sounds pretty cool, huh? The next step is to profile your subject. You may know next to nothing about the person in front of you, and you don’t need to—they will give you the secrets about themselves without realizing they are, if you ask questions about them in such a way that they appear to be statements. telepathy Most of the time, your subjects will supply more information than necessary from these question-statements. Another technique is to use Barnum statements, which are named after P.T.
Become a Better Liar and Live a Better Life Getting caught manipulating the truth can be embarrassing. Researchers have spent countless hours studying nonverbal, verbal, and paralinguistic cues to detect deception, but little research has been conducted to identify the characteristics of a good liar. Becoming a better liar can reduce the number of those awkward "got ya" moments when you are caught prevaricating. Assimilating the characteristics of a good liar will help you become a better liar and live a better life. Good liars control their emotions The fear of getting caught in a lie triggers the fight/flight response, which mentally and physically prepares the body for survival. The fight/flight response presents two major obstacles for liars. The second obstacle caused by the fight/flight response is cognitive overload. Tip: to become a more effective liar you must recognize the onset of the fight/flight response and then take action to prevent the fight/flight response from engaging. Good liars have outgoing personalities
10 Simple Postures That Boost Performance Psychological research suggests simple actions can project power, persuade others, increase empathy, boost cognitive performance and more… We tend to think of body language as something that expresses our internal states to the outside world. But it also works the other way around: the position of our body also influences our mind. As the following psychological research shows, how we move can drive both thoughts and feelings and this can boost performance. 1. If you want to feel more powerful then adopt a powerful posture. 2. Tensing up your muscles can help increase your willpower. 3. If you’re stuck on a problem which needs persistence then try crossing your arms. 4. If crossing your arms doesn’t work then try lying down. 5. While you’re lying down, why not have a nap? Brooks & Lack (2005) compared 5, 10, 20 and 30 minute naps to find the best length. 6. The way people’s hands cut through the air while they talk is fascinating. 7. 8. 9. 10. Embodied cognition Image credit: Hector
Statement Analysis Guide to flirting Why do we flirt? Flirting is much more than just a bit of fun: it is a universal and essential aspect of human interaction. Anthropological research shows that flirting is to be found, in some form, in all cultures and societies around the world. Flirting is a basic instinct, part of human nature. This is not surprising: if we did not initiate contact and express interest in members of the opposite sex, we would not progress to reproduction, and the human species would become extinct. According to some evolutionary psychologists, flirting may even be the foundation of civilisation as we know it. If flirting is instinctive, why do we need this Guide? Like every other human activity, flirting is governed by a complex set of unwritten laws of etiquette. We only become aware of the rules when someone commits a breach of this etiquette – by flirting with the wrong person, perhaps, or at an inappropriate time or place. Where to flirt Parties Drinking-places Learning-places Workplace Spectator events
Text Bridges Lying by omission is the preferred method to lie. Liars tell the truth up to the point where they want to conceal information, skip over the withheld information, and tell the truth again. Successful liars construct sentences that allow them to skip over withheld information to make the story appear truthful. Constructing a sentence to span the information gap replicates building a bridge across a river. Text Bridges allow people to transition from one topic to another without detailing tedious, lesser-included activities. Text Bridges comprise three categories: subordinating words, adverbial conjunctives, and transition words. Adverbial conjunctives connect two complete ideas. Transitional words connect themes and ideas or establish relationships. The following example illustrates how transition words create information gaps. The most commonly used Text Bridges include , and . "I arrived at 7:45 a.m. with Jenna. : What did you do last night?
The Relationship Life Cycle - Male Not many people realise this, but Happy Ever Afters are fairytales proliferated by Disney and fictionalized by Hollywood. They are make believes to have people make sacred their chastity and safe guard children from the greater purpose in life, Promiscuity. Happy Ever Afters are myths and un-natural occurrences, much like Atlantis and the multi male orgasm, and are experienced by less than 0.7% of the human population. Happy Ever Afters are however possible, only when you marry at 70 and you both die shortly after before realizing the existence of erectile dysfunction. Love, is like a commodified product. And in the dynamics of marketing, we learn that all products go through a product life cycle. If you disagree with me, you are either blind, single and unwanted, never had a relationship without the medium of money or just simply, wrong. I’ve decided to split this post into two parts instead because I believe there is a gender divide when it comes to the life cycle. The Courting Stage.
Push-Pull Words Push-Pull Words require two or more words to complete their definitions. The word "upstairs"cannot be defined without the word "downstairs." The word "hot" cannot be defined without the word "cold." The following excerpt from a legal deposition, illustrates how an attorney identified and exploited the Push-Pull Word "straight." : So, you left your home at 6:00? : Yes. : And what time did you get to the hospital? : And you left the hospital when? : 6:22, maybe. : So you just dropped your friend off? : Yes, dropped him off and went straight home. : And the accident happened at 7:00? : Uh-huh. : Where did you stop on your way home? : My friend's house. : So, you weren't going directly home, you were going by your friend's house first? : Yes, that was my intention. The Push-Pull Word "straight" pushes off "not straight" or "crooked." Push-Pull Words and other verbal deception detection techniques are presented in a booklet titled .
The Relationship Life Cycle - Female The Life cycle of relationships is more of a tangent compliment to the whole dynamics of the great gender divide, than it is to pronounce the differences that we already know. Men can pee standing, women cannot or risk ruining their Blahniks. Women nag, while men grumble. Women have multiple orgasm, while men achieve this through multiple sex partners. Women go through the cycle of love with a varying difference of success, stagnation and demise, because like men, they are horrible people. I know this, because I’ve been with a fair share of women to know that false advertising is an arsenal they readily deploy. The Courting Stage This is the stage where years of using push-up bras or Brazilian waxing pays off. 1. Women start out in the relationship more dependent than when they end it. A women’s independence is something men brag about to their friends because men feel good when they know they are not being made use of. 2. Women have the best tempers at this stage. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1.
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