Summary of Gregory Hartley & Maryann Karinch's How to Spot a Liar, Revised Edition

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The American intelligence machine, which is what the United States has become since the September 11, 2001 attacks, has a prisoner collection operation with tiered prisoner-handling capacities. Prisoners wind their way from the front to collection sites and eventually to prisoner holding cages in the rear.
#2 I spent three and a half years training American Special Forces soldiers how to resist interrogation. I learned how to read body language and how to teach the techniques of interrogations. I saw the same relationship between using these techniques in war and in my daily life.
#3 The history of interrogation is the history of how people have tried to understand the psychology of why people talk, when they talk, and how they talk. This has led to the development of the science of interrogation.
#4 The tools of interrogation that I’ve used with prisoners have value in your everyday life because you have a lot in common with a prisoner of war. You have a box inside you that makes you who you are, and there are many forces at work that could potentially destroy what’s inside it.

Sujets

• Body Language
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Social Science
• Nonverbal Communication

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 29 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822502703
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Gregory Hartley & Maryann Karinch's How to Spot a Liar, Revised Edition
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When you use the tools of interrogation wisely, you understand that you have rights to humane treatment, honesty, and fair play. When you understand the mechanics of stress and how to manipulate someone’s fears and dreams, you will be powerful.

#2

The U. S. intelligence machine, which is what the military has become since the September 11, 2001 attacks, includes a prisoner collection operation with tiered prisoner-handling capacities. Interrogators need an operational knowledge of how enemy and friendly soldiers go about their jobs in order to ask questions that dig out essential facts.

#3

I was assigned to the Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, where I learned how to read body language and teach the techniques of interrogations. I saw the same relationship between using these techniques in war and applying them in my daily life.

#4

The science of interrogation is old, but it has become much more sophisticated over the past few decades. It was developed to understand the psychology of why people talk, when they talk, and how they talk.

#5

The tools of interrogation that I’ve used with prisoners have value in your everyday life because you have a lot in common with a prisoner of war. You have a box inside you that makes you who you are, and there are many forces at work that could potentially destroy what’s inside it.

#6

When a person is captured, his stress levels go through the roof. He knows many of his friends have just died, which adds emotions such as grief and anger to the fear that runs through his entire body.

#7

The more you become accustomed to an experience, the more you are able to cope with it. The essence of this man comes from a complex interplay of connections in his daily life. He has just suffered a severe blow to both his self and his frame of reference.

#8

After the initial shock of being captured, the prisoner starts to adapt. He gets a box to help him cope with the stress. The prisoner becomes wholly dependent on the guards and interrogators to tell him what the correct answer to every question is.

#9

The stress of being captured and taken to a prison camp is compounded when interrogations begin. The prisoner starts to identify with the captor and even emulate his behaviors and speech patterns.

#10

The same rules apply to a prisoner of war as to you. Any conditions that create unease, restlessness, instability, and/or unpredictability give you experiences in common with a prisoner of war.

#11

When you use your cerebral cortex for language, calculations, and other logical functions, you are a primate. When you use your limbic system for emotion and coordination of movement, you are a mammal.

#12

The sympathetic system engages in response to a perceived threat within milliseconds of the initial shock that triggers the cortisol cycle. Everything that the stress hormones are going to do to your body to prepare you for fight or flight happens in that sliver of time.

#13

The effects of the sympathetic nervous system are to force us into our most primitive reaction: fight or flight. When we are stressed, our bodies generate a smell that is similar to that of prisoners who have gone weeks without washing.

#14

The way people express stress is very different, and can be identified by looking at their body posture, the speed of their movements, and the congruence of their movements. You can also spot deviations from normal circumstances by looking at how a person handles their arms, hands, legs, and face under normal circumstances.

#15

The parasympathetic level out your body after the sympathetic dumps adrenaline into it. The parasympathetic brings your body back to a state of relaxation. Systems that were turned off begin to function again.

#16

You have interrogation skills, but you probably don’t use them consciously or in concert with one another. You routinely screen people to get various types of information from them, but you don’t evaluate information in terms of its strategic, tactical, or quick-fix role.

#17

You will become a lie detector. And when people around you fall for the charisma of a devious politician, you’ll be able to give them solid reasons why the person has no business tampering with your democracy.

#18

People lie for love, hate, or greed. They also may do so for fun. The rush that comes from getting away with something difficult is addictive. If you do it enough, it becomes a habit.

#19

The human brain is capable of lying, and it is often triggered by head trauma, disease-related brain deterioration, and mental illnesses of various kinds. Distorted memory can also be caused by mental illness.

#20

There are many reasons why people might lie. Memory can be state-dependent, and it is possible to store a memory while in a very particular state and then have it disappear or become severely distorted when you are not in that state.

#21

There are four reasons to lie: self-preservation, love, hate, or greed. When people observe this trait in you, they will be more willing to tell you the truth.

#22

There are many reasons why people lie, and they are all rooted in stress. The lie itself causes stress, and it doesn’t matter if your motivation is completely decent. There is an incompatibility between what you’re doing and what your brain is telling you to do.

#23

There are four ways to lie: omit, commit, embellish the truth, and transfer. You can omit information by simply denying or affirming something. You can embellish the truth by adding details.

#24