Deception Detection and Getting to the Truth: A Masterclass
Learn the secret tricks top interrogators and CIA agents use to spot -- and stop -- liars
Deception Detection and Getting to the Truth: A Masterclass
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.
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The lying epidemic
Research shows people are lied to in their interactions all day long -- as many as 200 times a day. As a Mayo Clinic director put it, “We live in an epidemic of lying.” Sure, some lies are considered harmless. But others take a huge toll. In interviews, negotiations and relationships, lies can be destructive, even dangerous. Falling for them can damage your career, your finances, and your personal life. To succeed in this era, we need a more radical approach to trust. This is especially true now that new technologies can make deceit even more insidious.
Across the world, only a relative handful of people have expertise in seeing through lies. They know the subtle cues to watch out for and tricks to get people to expose the truth.
The power of liespotting
It’s time for these experts’ monopoly on liespotting to end. Time for you to take much greater control of your life and destiny. By learning to recognize 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 liespotter.
- Pamela Meyer is “the nation’s best known expert on lying” (Reader’s Digest). Her TED Talk, How to Spot a Liar, has 30 million views and has been translated into more than 40 languages. Corporations, government agencies and businesses of all kinds across the world bring her in for high-level training that helps them spot fraud and save billions of dollars.
Pamela Meyer
What this course delivers
In this Masterclass, you’ll learn the science and psychology of deception, CIA techniques, verbal and non-verbal indicators, and a systematic framework to get the truth in any interaction. Through 11 modules, each filled with multiple sessions, you’ll discover how people unconsciously communicate their intentions and proven methods for persuading them to spill the truth.
Who should take this course?
Deception Detection and Getting to the Truth: A Masterclass is for everyone who takes part in an interview, negotiation, pitch meeting, interrogation, cross-examination, or any other encounter in which being deceived puts you at a disadvantage. 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.
Testimonials from Pamela’s training sessions and events include:
Mo Lidsky
Partner and Senior Managing Director
Prime Quadrant
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.
Mo Lidsky
Partner and Senior Managing Director
Prime Quadrant
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.
Mo Lidsky
Partner and Senior Managing Director
Prime Quadrant
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.
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.
Mo Lidsky
Partner and Senior Managing Director
Prime Quadrant
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Module 1: Course Introduction
- 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
Module 2: Science and Psychology of Deception
- 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
Module 3: Liespotting Technique
- 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
Module 4: Verbal Indicators
- 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
Module 5: Nonverbal Indicators
- 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
Module 6: Gotcha vs. Getting to the Truth
- 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
Module 7: Preparation
- 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
Module 8: Rapport
- 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
Module 9: Expert Questions
- 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
- Story structure: How liars can’t communicating narrative and chronology differently than people telling the truth
Module 10: Persuasion
- 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
Module 11: Conclusion
- 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
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