The Truth About Lying: How to Spot a Lie and Protect Yourself from Deception | Date: 28 April 2011, 08:39
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The Truth About Lying: How to Spot a Lie and Protect Yourself from Deception
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* Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
* Number Of Pages: 197
* Publication Date: 2000-05-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1570715114
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781570715112
Product Description:
Communication skills can make a big difference in whether people tell you the truth or not. Knowing when to ask the next question, the behaviors that signal when the whole story isn't being told and what questions to ask can help you cut through deception and lying so you can have confidence in your communications.
Based on the same methods used by law enforcement professionals, but appropriate for everyday interactions, these skills and techniques can be applied in almost every situation:
--hiring a nanny or household worker
--working with an employee
--talking with a service provider
--dealing with a teenager
--communicating in a romantic relationship
Without threats or intimidation, Walters' strategies will improve relationships and communication by teaching how to spot a liar and, more importantly, how to get to the truth.
Summary: An alternative suggestion
Rating: 3
Dissecting Pinocchio: How to Detect Deception in Business, Life, and Love
I'm the author of Dissecting Pinocchio. If you bought Stan's book (Stan is a friend of mine, incidentally), I believe you'll find Dissecting Pinocchio a worthwhile complement to it.
All Stan's books are excellent, if somewhat hard to read at times. I recommend all law enforcement officers attend his outstanding seminars.
My approach is somewhat different than Stan's in that I examine a liar's body language body part by body part, giving the observer a "roadmap" to detecting deception.
Summary: Big lie behind big wordiness: the truth about deceiving readers
Rating: 1
This book is a lie. It does not deliver 1% of what it promises.
It is full of unreadable, tiresome, simple-minded text. A string of commonplaces alternated with cliches.
If weeded out and dried up by a competent editor its almost 200 pages could be reduced to two or three pages. No hyperbole here.
If I were to imitate the author, instead of referring to his "wordiness" I would refer to his "diffuseness, long-windedness,
verboseness, redundancy, verbosity, pleonasm, wordage, prolixity,
verboseness, windiness, verbiage."
That's the way he writes. But he does not stop there.
Still imitating him, in the next paragraph I'd say, just to be sure the reader drove my message home: "the author uses an enormous excess of words."
Of course, I would still repeat it a few more times, just to
be on the safe side...
The author does not trust the reader to understand what he says only once, then he says it again and again.
That's not the only problem. Under that plethora of words only one thing is to be found: empty nothingness.
If the author knows anything about lie-detection, his knowledge is not to be detected in this book.
(I gave this book a star because Amazon did not allow me to give it none)
Summary: Not so good.
Rating: 1
Hate to say this, but this book promises far more than it can deliver. The book cites a lot of conventional wisdom along with a few specious claims (such as, you can tell someone desires to leave a conversation by the direction his feet are pointing, particularly towards an exit).
I couldn't glean very much useful information from the book, because most of it would not stand up to the scrunity of repeated use, different people or various circumstances.
I would say, at best, it's a good fluff piece about this topic.
A better book is Paul Ekman's "Telling Lies". It is based on more sound, consistent, and standardized research and it is better written.
Summary: closer to the truth than other pop psychology books
Rating: 4
Of the four books I read recently about reading people and/or uncovering deception, this is probably the best, mainly because it doesn't fall into the trap of assigning specific behaviors as indicators of certain traits. The author is an expert in interrogation, and it shows-- the book is grounded in solid psychological fact, and is one that is certain to improve the people-reading skills of most readers. He also dispels some myths, such as those promoted by proponents of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. About the only complaint I have is his claim that the book cannot be used by unscrupulous people to deceive others- not all the best actors gravitate toward Broadway or Hollywood. Still, out of the four books I read, this is the one that is most worth your time and money.
Summary: If there are no other options...
Rating: 2
This book had minimal useful information drowned out by tons of verbose, redundant paragraphs with spelling mistakes. It talked more about identifying stress then really being able to tell if someone was lying. The useful information in that book filled about 4 pages worth of space. All the rest is repetative and common sense. Very little of it provoks the response of "oh wow, i didn't know that." If you are looking for a book on lie detection, don't consider this as a first choice.
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