How to Talk to Someone Who's Lost in Nonsense
The Socratic method isn't about being nice. It's about making someone hear themselves.
interrogations
Question behind the question
Your ability to answer questions is a competitive advantage. Here’s how to uncover the deeper underlying question.
Scientists have found a simple yet brilliant hack for spotting a liar
Scientists say there is evidence that lying is more cognitively demanding than telling the truth.
My Clients, The Liars — LessWrong
It’s not just that my clients lie to me a lot, which will only hurt them — it’s that they’re really, really bad at it. My job as a public defender pu…
People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened
Lab-based research shows that adults can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that as teens they perpetrated crimes that never actually occurred.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/psychologist-explains-why-people-confess-crimes-they-didn-t-commit
How to get useful answers to your questions
How to Get Someone to Tell You Their Secrets, According to an Investigative Journalist
And once you do get them to open up, don’t betray their trust.
A guide to body language, from former FBI Special Agent Joe Navarro
Non-verbal communication is just as important as the words people say, and these subtle cues can reveal if someone is lying.
How to think like a detective | Psyche Guides
The best detectives seem to have almost supernatural insight, but their cognitive toolkit is one that anybody can use
How can you tell if someone is lying?
The conventional wisdom about how to spot a liar is all wrong.
How to figure out if someone is telling you the truth
"The home of our truth/lie detector resides in the area of our body that encapsulates the throat, heart, and gut."
The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets
The long read: Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but until now, nobody could prove it. By analysing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have revolutionised the art of extracting the truth