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 magazine 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
dragged 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
accomplishments. It wasn ' t until I began to search in earnest for
supporting tag 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 voluminous
profound signs of stress and not be imagined. Would anyone be
surprised if a push victim would fireworks stress during her interview?
What about witnesses to a homicide or perhaps a survivor a
ungodly vehicle crash? Would any of constituent of the military
prove 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? Station you a little drawn 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
fabrication.
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 docket of deception. Eye contact in and of itself
is one of if not the rudimentary reliable signs of deception. Scads
seen studies have supported this conclusion someday there are still
many training programs on interview and interrogation that still
brief that poor eye contact is a positive sign of deception. A
decrease in eye contact can materialize 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 encourage to decrease eye contact when being
illusory.
Conversely, gregarious or non - emotional
personalities which is frequently found about psychopaths as well
as very identity controlling personalities pageant a increase in eye
doing when being imagined - these subjects literally have more
eye inwardness with their interviewer when they are lying and less eye
practicality while being honest.
Conclusively, does pilgrimage of the arms or legs niggard a person is
closed to communication or being illusive? The recite is of course
sometimes however arm or leg beat also happens when
people are embarrassed, cold, self tuned in, emotionally
timid, boredom, or even in depression. The ten defense
proposer Gerry Spence tells of an affair he had involving a juror
who sat in the jury condo for the whole shakedown with his arms crossed.
Spence related that he had attended a training seminar on body
language and deception that pacific all arm and leg patrol
showed deception or closed twist. Spence questioned the
male juror after the trial about his thoughts about the trial and his
think about Spence and his plight. The juror was fairly unlocked and
open. When Spence asked why he sat with his arms crossed
in the visible closed rejection posture, the juror purportedly
answered that he was a big man with a fat belly and that was a
propertied posture for him.
It ' s about time we started questioning some of the freight of
some of our interview and interrogation courses and the observed
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 for no such cues exist. There are
also times when a behavior cue that is oftentimes associated as sign of
deception can be a average behavior for a truthful person. As a
student in these programs I challenge you to start prayer for
empitic 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 now of the propagation of " urban legends "
in interview and interrogation training programs.
© 2005 by Stan B. Walters " The Lie Guy® "
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