Dissecting Pinocchio: How to Detect Deception in Business, Life, and Love [Paperback]

Christopher Dillingham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 19, 2008

The average person tells three to five lies per day, so who is lying to you? Dissecting Pinocchio will teach you how to spot lies through the analysis of Pinocchio’s body language, speech, papillary dilation, proxemics, and much more. This is the first book to “dissect” Pinocchio’s behavior body part by body part; in essence, giving you a map of how a liar speaks, acts, and moves differently than truthful people. Dissecting Pinocchio will not only give you the skills you need to recognize when someone is lying to you, but it will also teach you how to get Pinocchio to admit he is lying! Learn what scientists have discovered about the body language and speech characteristics of liars, why people lie, and how to tell friends from enemies in the workplace, life, and love.

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About the Author

Christopher Dillingham is a State of Florida Police Academy Instructor and Forensic Interviewer who teaches interrogation techniques to fellow law enforcement officers. He possesses a Master’s degree in Interpersonal Communication and is an adjunct professor of Communication for the University of Central Florida. He and his wife, Victoria, live in Orlando, FL.

Product Details

• Paperback: 134 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (February 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595487513
• ISBN-13: 978-0595487516
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #777,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great book! A real must have to detect lies!, April 6, 2008

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Rebecca Graybill (Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This book is great! In all the cases the author speaks of in the book, I can relate to seeing these "leaking emotions" in my real life. Well written for the general public. This is easy to understand and easy to apply these practices to detect deception in your everyday life. IF you want to know what people really think of you and who is telling you lies, spend the money on this book. I will read it over and over again. (By the way, it also gives you some interesting examples of interviews with real criminals.)

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deception unveiled, September 28, 2008

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This review is from: Dissecting Pinocchio: How to Detect Deception in Business, Life, and Love (Paperback)

Despite the basic cover, this is a complex book. Dillingham eloquently explains how to weed out Pinocchio from the trustworthy. Find out someones normal behavior first and then use the science of body language, and speech recognition. You pick up cues to their lying when they are placed under more stressful questions and begin to deviate from their former behvavior.

Working as a detective, interrogator, and an academic give Dillingham a theoreticians knowledge, with a practitioners credibility. He provides many fictionalized, but based on real life(I assume) scenarios in which he successfully detected deception and used it to get a confession or gain the upper hand in a social situation.

Dillingham discusses false positives of detection(eye movement) that were somehow popularized in police work as well as the basics of facial reddening, past vs present tense, story telling patterns of liars, upper vs lower face, as well as many others areas that have been known to change under stress of playing with the truth. He also takes on the infamous polygraph as well as newer the gadgets of voice stress analyzation, and MRI brain scans. This is a guide of how not to be a sucker, and road map to start detecting cheats.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read!, January 31, 2009

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Joseph Bisoglio "The Dude" (NY, NY) - See all my reviews
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I'm not going to go on and on about this book but I'll just say simply that it is excellently written, has great information, and is an easy read. So often books are fluffed up just to fill pages. This book is the opposite. It's concise and warrants repeat reading to reinforce the concepts. If this is a subject you're interested in I strongly recommend this book, either for a beginner or for those more versed in the concepts.