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Pamela Meyer
American
Author
Lie
People
Think
Time
Will
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
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Mark Twain
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Zig Ziglar
Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
Pamela Meyer
Lie
Power
Believe
Think
Lying
Else
About
Someone
Emerges
Mere
Whatsoever
Act
Agree
Cooperative
Utterance
Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
Pamela Meyer
Anger
Men
Greed
Frailty
Emotional
Con
Look
Most
Always
Trump
Susceptible
Often
Human
Different
Vice
Manipulation
Exploit
Found
A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.
Pamela Meyer
Lie
Liar
Telling
Delight
Unconscious
Smiles
His
Getting
Often
Subtly
While
Expression
Away
As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
Pamela Meyer
Truth
Me
You
Trust
People
Believe
Pleading
Sign
Tell
Telling
Telling The Truth
Someone
Insisting
Trust Me
Deception
Much
Who
Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
Pamela Meyer
You
Liars
Eye
Look
Stutter
Always
Blush
Stammer
Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.
Pamela Meyer
Memory
People
Remember
Will
Liars
Chronological
Way
Prominence
Rarely
Recount
Emotional
Order
Stories
Story
Works
Honest
Honest People
Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
Pamela Meyer
Democracy
Cause
Country
Think
Our
Enron
Those
Crisis
Security
Lies
Cost
Betray
Case
Compromise
Mortgage
Like
Robert
Undermine
Deaths
Traitors
Deception
Double
Us
Agents
Billions
Defend
Tales of cheating on school and college tests are rife. There have been instances where teachers have given students test answers in order to make themselves look good on their performance reviews. Mentors who should be teaching the opposite are sending a message that lying and cheating are acceptable.
Pamela Meyer
Good
School
College
Cheating
Lying
Given
Mentors
Students
Performance
Tales
Look
Message
Make
Acceptable
Answers
Test
Opposite
Been
Tests
Reviews
Sending
Where
Order
Themselves
Should
Teachers
Teaching
Who
Rife
For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.
Pamela Meyer
Words
Liar
Random
Phrases
Seem
Never
Clear
Well
Knows
How
Sounds
Offer
Person
Listen
Psyche
Who
Speech
By the time we enter this work world and we're breadwinners, we enter a world that's just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers - a deception epidemic.
Pamela Meyer
Work
Time
World
Digital
Thieves
World-Class
Enter
Partisan
Identity
Fake
Friends
Just
Deception
Spam
Ingenious
Cluttered
Epidemic
Media
By The Time
We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.
Pamela Meyer
Women
Lie
People
Men
Strangers
Other
About
More
Protect
Times
Than
Eight
Themselves
Co-Workers
Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.
Pamela Meyer
You
Trust
Eyes
Try
Flame
Ears
Out
Hurtful
Steam
Throw
Around
Coming
Fit
Stomp
Rolling
Breaks
Infuriating
Your
Keep
High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
Pamela Meyer
Matter
Big
Control
Lying
Way
Out
One-Way
Costing
Emotionally
Bucks
Simply
Well
Another
Dollars
Losses
Psychologically
Us
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
Pamela Meyer
Age
Live
Innocence
Surely
Deception
Lived
Now
Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.
Pamela Meyer
Truth
Society
Consequences
Back
Our
Takes
Often
Seat
Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'
Pamela Meyer
Me
You
Trust
Cooking
Book
Coffee
Husband
Honey
Meet
Email
Say
Okay
Focused
About
Date
Could
No-One
Since
Like
French
Wrote
How
Person
Get
Maybe
Anymore
Deception
Wants
Speaking
Even
Starbucks
They Say
Ever
Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
Pamela Meyer
Time
Money
Denial
Own
Our
Faults
Those
Weaknesses
Charisma
Admit
Something
Scheme
Had
Accept
Been
From Time To Time
Want
Victims
Realities
Manipulated
Suffer
Nigerian
The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.
Pamela Meyer
Day
Business
Change
Every Day
Problem
Path
Down
Every
Our
Dramatically
Lies
Lead
Wrong
How
Hear
Falsehoods
Personal
Influence
Personal Lives
Us
Lives
Careers
Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
Pamela Meyer
Master
Cloud
Strategy
Others
Everyone
Release
Carpet
Lies
He
Like
Knows
Octopus
His
Reference
Trump
Escaping
Done
Predator
Then
Many
Agree
Ink
Millions
Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.
Pamela Meyer
Language
Evidence
He
Like
Sure
Private
His
Trump
Maybe
Public
Body
Acting
Body Language
Research indicates that a pause tends to be a signal that a cluster of deceptive cues is on its way. This is a key reason why voters routinely associate Trump with authenticity: He rarely pauses.
Pamela Meyer
Key
Research
Way
Signal
Rarely
Tends
He
Voters
Trump
Authenticity
Deceptive
Cluster
Pause
Reason
Why
Associate
When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
Pamela Meyer
You
Master
Back
Signal
Dare
Reliable
Threat
Attack
Pointed
Beaten
Involved
How
Question
Trump
Deception
Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
Pamela Meyer
Angry
You
Signs
Once
Easy
Someone
Facial
Only
Divorce
Contempt
Couples
Spot
Got
Still
Been
Predictor
Them
Dismissed
Successfully
Researcher
Display
Expression
Aware
Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
Pamela Meyer
You
Culture
Language
Aggressive
Think
Caricature
Intimidate
Out
TV
Someone
More
Never
Part
Like
Looks
Answer
Cannot
Forthcoming
Works
Interrogation
Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
Pamela Meyer
Smile
Anger
Anxiety
Negative
Other
Seconds
Rarely
Some
Emotion
Never
Conceal
Almost
Longer
Likely
Genuine
Five
Persist
Than
Fixed
Expressions
It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.
Pamela Meyer
Time
You
Money
Will
Long
Long Time
Mistakes
Enormous
Speed
Our
Later
Someone
Stem
Take
Hire
Time And Money
Hiring
Biggest
Amount
Save
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