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Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero are former CIA officers with decades of experience in interviewing, interrogation, and behavioral analysis.
Known for: Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
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Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception
Written by former CIA officers, this book reveals the techniques used by intelligence professionals to detect deception in everyday life. It provides readers with practical tools to recognize verbal and nonverbal cues that indicate lying, helping them make better judgments in personal and professional interactions.
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The Behavioral Model: Understanding the Foundation
In our work at the CIA, we needed a framework that would isolate behaviors associated with deception and distinguish them from ordinary human variability. The behavioral model we built became that cornerstone—a disciplined system to interpret actions, not emotions. Our model begins with a simple pr...
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Verbal Indicators: The Language of Avoidance
Words carry more than meaning—they carry intent. In listening to hundreds of hours of interrogations, we noticed recurring verbal habits that accompanied deceptive behavior. One common pattern was evasive language. When asked direct questions, deceptive individuals often deflect, answer a different ...
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Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero are former CIA officers with decades of experience in interviewing, interrogation, and behavioral analysis.
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