The former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was recently accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in a New York City hotel room. The accused victim Nafissatou Diallo is revealing her true identity in her first television interview, below. Strauss-Kahn denies all allegations and has adamantly maintained his innocence, yet Diallo insists she is…
Read MoreAnalytical Interviewing
When law enforcement use microexpressions as an interviewing/interrogation technique it is called “Analytical Interviewing”. United States police officers, TSA workers, and the FBI have all been using microexpressions to detect deception for quite some time. Science has come to distinguish this from merely reading body language and gestures. Although, those types of techniques are helpful…
Read MoreWhile Lying Can Be Harmful, Is It Really Unnatural?
Humanity has been programmed to believe that lying is unnatural and bad. While it can be very harmful, is it really unnatural? Human beings lie all the time. Take a look at the video “Necessary Lies” with writer and orator Ian Leslie. It was reported on in Wired and delineates the myths about lying, gives…
Read MoreNegative Emotion Enhances Memory?
Negative emotions actually enhance a person’s memory. Who would have thought that it was all the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elms street movies that we watched after school that would make us the geniuses we are today? Well, it turns out it just might be according to an article in The Behavioral Medicine…
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