Deception Detection and Getting to the Truth: A Masterclass

Learn the secret tricks top interrogators and CIA agents use to spot -- and stop -- liars

Spot deception, obtain critical information and get to the truth

Learn the secret tricks top interrogators and CIA agents use to spot -- and stop -- liars

Lies destroy businesses, careers, and relationships every day. It’s time to take back the truth. In this course, you’ll learn tricks known to the world’s top interrogators and intelligence specialists: the telltale signs and techniques to discover when someone is deceiving you. You’ll empower yourself, transform how you communicate, and build deeper, richer, more honest connections.

Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting who gave one of the most watched TED Talks of all time, is teaching you what elite customers have paid tens of thousands of dollars to learn.

Fraud costs businesses an estimated $150 billion a year, and can cost individuals their entire livelihoods. Don’t let this happen to you.

Become a Master Liespotter

The power of lie detection

Lies take a huge toll, costing companies billions and destroying crucial relationships. Deception, social engineering, malicious fraud and subtle human fabrication are running rampant while new technologies are being used in insidious ways by bad actors. Across the world, only a relative handful of people have expertise in seeing through lies at home or in the workplace. They know the subtle cues to watch out for and the advanced techniques to get people to expose the truth.

You can learn the same techniques CIA interrogators, FBI investigators and detectives are trained in. By learning a crucial modern skill -- recognizing deception--- you’ll swing interactions in your favor, pour your energy into the most useful efforts, become indispensable to any organization, and know where things really stand with people close to you. It’s time to become a master lie detection expert.

What this course delivers

In this Masterclass, you’ll learn:

  • The science and psychology of deception
  • CIA techniques to decipher the truth
  • Verbal and non-verbal cues to deception that you can observe and interpret
  • A systematic framework to get honest answers in any interaction and much more

Throughten modules, each filled with multiple sessions, you’ll discover how people unconsciously communicate their intentions and you will master proven methods for persuading them to spill the truth.

This ten week course is the most advanced course available. It contains case studies with famous celebrities and fraudsters, over 40 videos and animations, and fun quizzes and reflections. You’ll also love the course workbook which contains all of the scientific studies cited in the course, crib sheets, tip sheets and everything you’ll need for future reference.

Who should take this course?

Deception Detection and Getting to the Truth: A Masterclass is for everyone who takes part in. It’s also for anyone looking to ensure that their friends and family are being honest with them. If you value the truth and want to make sure those you interact with do as well, this Masterclass is for you.

The trust factor

If you worry that your friends or colleagues are not being honest, if you value the truth and want to make sure those you interact with do as well, this Masterclass is for you. It will transform your professional and personal relationships and allow you to develop trust that lasts through a science-based framework for building high trust relationships.

People are saying…

Mo Lidsky

Partner and Senior Managing
Director

"Pamela, you were truly amazing. Putting aside your subject-matter expertise, you have a real gift of communicating, teaching and relating.Your presentation was absolutely spellbinding, and we are so grateful to have had the pleasure of your presence, personality, wisdom and wit. I speak not for myself, but for all the attendees – who were effusive with their compliments and gratitude for having had the opportunity to hear you."

J.H. Binford Peay III

General, U.S. Army (retired),
Virginia Military Institute

"On behalf of the Virginia Military Institute, its faculty, administration and Corps of Cadets, I thank you…Your expertise was critical to our conference goal…the time and thought that you committed to your presentation was abundantly clear and made a profound impact on our conference attendees as well as the VMI community. Most importantly, you inspired our cadets and enriched their VMI experience in a way that can not be replicated."

John Munce

Founder
The Profit Alliance

"I’m a huge fan of Pamela's work. Two characteristics make her a powerful teacher. First, she studies her audience so each time she's on stage, you learn something totally new. Second, she has incredible wit and flair. Yes, she pulls things together in a really memorable way. Yes, she knows her stuff. Boy, can she tell a good story. Because she has a remarkable flair that brings it alive, I can still remember things she said the first time I heard her speak."

Linda Holliday

CEO

"Imagine having gobs of insight about how to spot liars without actually going through the hell it would require to gather it all personally! Pam Meyer gave us practical tips that were easy to apply immediately. I wish I had seen this speech a few years ago. It definitely would have saved me a few bad hires!"

Willy Allison

Founder and CEO
World Game Protection Conference

"Pamela Meyer keynoted our 10th anniversary conference in Las Vegas and absolutely blew away the audience. She is electrifying, witty, hilarious and incredibly insightful. One of the best talks we have ever had and it was a delight to work with her."

Anne Blouin

Chief Learning Officer (Ret.)
ASAE

"Pamela Meyer riveted our audience of organizational leaders! She has an uncanny ability to educate and entertain at the same time and she provided incredibly useful information. High rankings all around and it was a pleasure to work with her."

Keith Ferrazzi

Bestselling author

"I can't recommend Pamela's work highly enough. She is riveting, relevant, incredibly entertaining, and she introduces a new set of skills --and a hidden science that every executive who cares about being on the cutting edge, should learn."

Jim Villalon

ACFE

"She was riveting. Pamela has a truly unique ability to take the audience through the liespotting process in an entertaining way. She teaches how to understand a whole new language. There were so many “A-ha!” moments."

Erin Barrett

Student
University of Chicago

"Pamela Meyer’s training in deception detection is truly revolutionary. I am amazed by how her transformational method has improved honest and open communication in my relationships, both personal and professional. She is as captivating as her course is life changing- thank you!"

Jon Ellenthal

Vice Chairman
Walker Innovation Inc.

"One of our top speakers of the year. Pam’s talk was absolutely fascinating, entertaining and filled with real world practical value. Pam opened our eyes (and ears) to the many subtle and unintentional ways the truth “leaks” out. We all left much better prepared to sort through the noise and find the reliable information we need to make smart decisions"

Janet Grillo

Filmmaker and Associate Arts Professor
NYU Tisch School of the Arts

"As a professor at NYU Undergraduate Film & Television program, I encourage emerging visual storytellers to become students of human nature. The impulse to deceive self and others is the lynchpin of many great stories. How, why and to what end that lie is told, is the work of the storyteller. Pam Meyer's brilliant Ted Talk has become a staple teaching tool, as she describes the behavior of the liar and the irresistible satisfaction lying provides."

Lawrence Rogow

Chairman
Venture Technologies Group

"Pamela Meyer's work is like no other: she will blow you away . She has taught me a profound hidden language of reading people. She delivers her stories of detecting lies like great fiction. I negotiate deals, enter into relationships and conduct interviews in a completely different way now and I have a much more nuanced understanding of human behavior. Boy am I a fan!"

Jerome E. Bruce

Advancing Government
Accountability

"Pamela Meyer was our keynote speaker at AGA’s Sixth Annual Internal Control & Fraud Conference. She was the perfect speaker, because her topic of uncovering human deception by watching for signals the body makes involuntarily, resonated perfectly with our audience of over 500 government auditors and fraud specialists. Everyone left with priceless skills previously only available to CIA operatives and those trained in the art of interrogation. Pamela is a completely dynamic speaker with incredible stage presence and outstanding visual aids.She was a pleasure to work with.- I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend her."

Roshan Thomas

Analyst Capital Automotive
Real Estate Services, Inc.

"Pamela came to speak at my alma mater as a specially requested guest from the business school. She spoke to a packed house and blew everyone away with her research. Her presentation style is unmatched and it is so impressive how well she knew her audience. The average person may know more obvious aspects of deception detection, but Pamela proved there is so much more to discover. Several parts of her presentation, especially interviewing techniques, have stuck with me and have helped me analyze both personal and professional situations. This knowledge has given me a huge edge compared to those around me and I believe it will transform the way people navigate any conversation."

Katherine Kreuter

Procurement Leaders
Global Intelligence Network

"You received the top marks of the conference, and the group absolutely loved it!."

Rocky Galloway

Associate General Counsel
Lumen Technologies

"I was fortunate to be one of the early trainees of Pamela Meyer and her team. I found her course to be comprehensive and filled with valuable, science-based insights on human behavior. The skills I learned have been particularly helpful in contentious negotiations when it was difficult to discern the true motivations of opposing counsel. I highly recommend this course for anyone seeking to improve their effectiveness in business communications"

Pamela Meyer

Kajabi makes it incredibly easy to turn your knowledge into products you can sell.

Pamela Meyer

Kajabi makes it incredibly easy to turn your knowledge into products you can sell.

FREQUENTY ASKED QUESTIONS


  • What deception costs you, your relationships, and society
  • How often you’re being lied to (more than you think) and by whom
  • How confidence, career, and relationships improve when you can spot deception
  • Reclaiming your power over lies
  • Who lies, how often, and how they do it (this includes you)
  • The errors and tells that liars can’t hide, and the neuroscience that explains it
  • How you cooperate in being lied to – and how to stop
  • Three rules that arm you against the psychology of deception
  • o Alternative: Three rules to protect yourself from the psychology of deception
  • Unpacking the hungers and biases that make you vulnerable to deception
  • CIA techniques for observing human behavior
  • Baselining basics: Defining “normal” so you can spot abnormalities in someone’s behavior
  • o Baselining basics: A system for establishing “normal” so you can recognize a lie
  • Why one indicator isn’t proof of deception, and how to look for clusters
  • Elevating your natural liespotting instincts: Turning hunches into evidence
  • Listening for lies in sentence structure, word choice, and speech patterns
  • Eight universal ways that liars manipulate word choice to avoid telling the truth
  • How liars will parrot, minimize, protest, attack, or detour to protect their lie
  • What you can learn in the first three seconds after questioning a liar
  • How tone, volume, and speed of speech can expose a liar
  • In their own words: Criminals giving themselves away on camera
  • o Practice identifying verbal indicators of deceit in real videos of convicted liars
  • Seven major human emotions and how to read them on a face
  • Which two emotions are associated with lying, and which one emotion is always a red flag
  • Microexpressions: Reading the fleeting clues that liars can’t suppress
  • Reading body language: How liars’ physical movements betray them
  • Complete your first Liespotting test: Label the indicators of deception in recorded interviews of celebrities and politicians
  • Why that “gotcha!” moment of catching a liar will be less satisfying than you think
  • – but how relationships built on truth are more rewarding and empowering Cultivating the open
  • cooperative mindset that breaks down walls and gets people talking
  • Introduction to the PREP method: A systematic interviewing framework that supports truth- seeking in any conversation or interaction where lies could occur
  • How world-class interviewers like Barbara Walters prepare for a powerful interview
  • o Alternative: What the pros know about preparing for an interview Projecting authority, confidence, and comfort as you head into critical conversations
  • What you can learn from the common legal practice of mock trials
  • Preparing your mind with your secret weapons: Empathy and compassion
  • Beyond Jedi mind tricks: Building genuine (not manipulative) rapport
  • Connection-building first impressions: How to use facial expressions, body language, and words to create an instant bond
  • How to strengthen rapport by “mirroring” someone… but without acting creepy and weird
  • Surefire rapport busters that will kill any conversation
  • Eight types of questions, and the best order in which to ask them
  • When timing is everything: Planning specific questions for a structured interview with a beginning, middle, and end
  • One confrontational word to avoid asking (hint: it’s not who, what, when, where, or how)
  • Building a “prefix bridge” to neutralize the emotional response to tough questions
  • Reading the response: Recognizing anchor point shifts when someone answers your questions
  • Tried and true techniques to address resistance to telling the truth
  • The stoplight approach to managing emotions: Getting someone from a guarded red state to a communicative green state
  • How strategic silence and patience can create an irresistible pressure to speak
  • Why therapists and interrogators offer “psychological bridges” that can carry someone over their reluctance to share the truth
  • Pulling all the skills together: From baselining, to recognizing indicators of deceit, to strategically communicating to get to the truth
  • Finding freedom from the fear of being deceived
  • Start building a life where truth and honesty are supreme values