Joe Navarro Books

In my years of behavioral observation, I learned that personality itself is not inherently dangerous—it is when traits become extreme, rigid, and damaging to others that danger arises. The dangerous personality is not always the criminal lurking in an alleyway; often, it is the domineering superviso...

From Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People

The narcissist is often charismatic, articulate, and dazzling at first encounter. They are adept at making others feel special—until you realize that all that charm serves a single purpose: to reinforce their inflated sense of self. Narcissism as a personality pattern centers on grandiosity, entitle...

From Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People

Human beings are born fluent in nonverbal expression long before we speak our first word. As I explain in this section, body language is not a cultural invention—it is evolutionary. It comes from our survival instinct. The earliest humans depended on physical cues to judge threats and opportunities;...

From What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

In the field, one of the first rules is simple: before you can detect deception or stress, you must understand normal behavior. What does this person look like when relaxed? How do they typically move, gesture, and hold themselves? That's their baseline. Without it, all interpretation is guesswork. ...

From What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People