Dissecting Pinocchio: How to Detect Deception in Business, Life, and Love

By Christopher Dillingham

You will learn more information about body language in just one chapter of Pinocchio than you will by reading any other book out there. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595487513
• ISBN13: 9780595487516
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Iuniverse Inc
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, very practical, lots of new ideas here

I've read quite a number of books on detecting deception, and this one compares very well. It is much more than understanding body language. It also covers a lot of information about communication, how to conduct the interview, how to prepare for the interview, and the high point for me is the entire chapter entitled "Getting the Truth". This chapter pulls together all of the material in the book to help the interviewer get the truth from the person being interviewed. There are a lot of ideas here that I've not read before, and a number of techniques that anyone can start using right away. My job involves interviewing people for possible employment, so it's very useful for me to know when someone is telling the truth or not, and I expect that this book will prove very valuable in my job. The author is a former police officer, and many of the examples come from his experience on the force. This gives a level of reality to the book that is really good to see. This book is packed with lots of information, and I'm going to read it again just to be sure that I got everything. Each chapter ends with a "Things to Remember", which is a very useful summary. Unfortunately the book does not have an index, so it will be more difficult finding specific passages. All in all, an excellent job, I'm very glad I read it, and I can happily recommend it to others. Russ Conte

Valuable

I won't tell you that you won't see some things you've seen before, but even when you do, the frames the author uses to discuss them will leave you with the feeling that you've exapnded your mind once again. Then, there is the stuff you probably have NOT heard or read before, the book is sprinkled with plenty in this area. I refer to it often.

Great Read!

I'm not going to go on and on about this book but I'll just say simply that it is excellently written, has great information, and is an easy read. So often books are fluffed up just to fill pages. This book is the opposite. It's concise and warrants repeat reading to reinforce the concepts. If this is a subject you're interested in I strongly recommend this book, either for a beginner or for those more versed in the concepts.

Deception unveiled

Despite the basic cover, this is a complex book. Dillingham eloquently explains how to weed out Pinocchio from the trustworthy. Find out someones normal behavior first and then use the science of body language, and speech recognition. You pick up cues to their lying when they are placed under more stressful questions and begin to deviate from their former behvavior. Working as a detective, interrogator, and an academic give Dillingham a theoreticians knowledge, with a practitioners credibility. He provides many fictionalized, but based on real life(I assume) scenarios in which he successfully detected deception and used it to get a confession or gain the upper hand in a social situation. Dillingham discusses false positives of detection(eye movement) that were somehow popularized in police work as well as the basics of facial reddening, past vs present tense, story telling patterns of liars, upper vs lower face, as well as many others areas that have been known to change under stress of playing with the truth. He also takes on the infamous polygraph as well as newer the gadgets of voice stress analyzation, and MRI brain scans. This is a guide of how not to be a sucker, and road map to start detecting cheats.

This is a great book! A real must have to detect lies!

This book is great! In all the cases the author speaks of in the book, I can relate to seeing these "leaking emotions" in my real life. Well written for the general public. This is easy to understand and easy to apply these practices to detect deception in your everyday life. IF you want to know what people really think of you and who is telling you lies, spend the money on this book. I will read it over and over again. (By the way, it also gives you some interesting examples of interviews with real criminals.)