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Dewey Decimal Number: 153.6 EAN: 9780393308723 ISBN: 0393308723 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 366 Publication Date: 1992-06 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Editorial Review: Product Description: "Distills 15 years of scientific study of nonverbal communication and the clues to deception. Mr. Ekman {is} a pioneer in emotions research and nonverbal communication. . . . Accurate, intelligent, informative, and thoughtful."--Carol Z. Malatesta, New York Times Book Review. Photographs. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A good bookI enjoy reading this book. It's a nice look into how people lie and the clues of deceit. Rating:  - Good data, interesting styleThis book has lots of important information, not the least of which is to correct many misconceptions about signs of deceitfulness and the distinction between signs of anxiety and signs of deceit. Ekman does a good job of defining important categories of non-verbal behavior and correlating increases or decreases in each of the categories with different emotional states. However, the specific facial changes associated with genuine versus feigned emotional expression identified in this ... Read More Rating:  - An awful mess of a bookFor anyone interested in detecting lies in the marketplace, politics, and marriage: this is the last book you should buy. Slight exaggeration aside, there are probably 3 semi-valuable pages in this book. Ekman spends about 275 pages trying to convince you that even if you believe someone is lying, you might be wrong...or, actually, you may be right...The entire book is a dizzying succession of tautologies. He is so scared that you will read his hypotheses (which are of no practical value ... Read More Rating:  - Ekman is better than he is given creditDr Eckman may disappoint his readers by not giving them what they want: A simple protocol for determining whether or not someone is lying. There is a simple reason: There isn't one. Other books will defraud the reader by giving them techniques that in reality don't work. Dr Eckman pounds in one central point - that there is no one single way to detect dishonesty. He calls any belief to the contrary "the Brokaw Hazard," named after Tom Brokaw, who believes that circumlocution is the omnipresent ... Read More Rating: - Dr. Ekman Needs to Hire a Professional Writer!The book is fascinating, to say the least. I think people need to take a "realistic approach" to applying the knowledge acquired by reading the book. My one big fault with the book is that whoever actually "wrote" the book is terrible with regard to constructing sentences and expressing ideas! I had to read some things twice in order to make sure I was receiving the information as intended. Dr. Ekman needs to invest in a professional writer who can more clearly express his thoughts, intents and ideas. Hard ... Read More |
