Pamela Meyer thinks we’re facing a pandemic of deception, but she’s arming people with tools that can help take back the truth.
Why you should listen to her:
Working with a team of researchers over several years, Meyer, who is CEO of social networking company Simpatico Networks, collected and reviewed most of the research on deception that has been published, from such fields as law-enforcement, military, psychology and espionage. She then became an expert herself, receiving advanced training in deception detection, including multiple courses of advanced training in interrogation, microexpression analysis, statement analysis, behavior and body language interpretation, and emotion recognition. Her research is synthetized in her bestselling book Liespotting.
"All forms of self deception make us vulnerable to the scam, the con, the false promise, the bad hire, the unwise promotion, the faulty new product."Portfolio.com
Quotes by Pamela Meyer
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“A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance; its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.”
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“If you’re in an average married couple, you’re going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions.”
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“Lying is a cooperative act.”
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“Lying is an attempt to bridge a gap, to connect our wishes and our fantasies, about who we wish we were, how we could be, with what we’re really like.”
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“Trained liespotters get to the truth 90 percent of the time; the rest of us, we’re only 54 percent accurate.”
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“We’re against lying, but we’re covertly for it, in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries.”
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“When you combine the science of recognizing deception with the art of looking, listening, you exempt yourself from collaborating in a lie.”
