Jumia Books Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception by By (author) Mike Floyd By (author) Philip Houston (Author)

"Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception" by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero offers practical and proven techniques developed by former CIA officers for identifying deception. Drawing on their intelligence and counterterrorism experience, the authors share a systematic methodology to detect lies based on behavioral analysis during questioning.

Key techniques and principles include:

Focusing on clusters of deceptive behaviors rather than isolated signs to increase accuracy.

Ignoring truthful behavior that does not address the question, to avoid being misled.

Using strategic questions such as presumptive, bait, and catch-all questions to uncover the truth.

Applying a timing principle by watching for deceptive behavior within five seconds of stimulation.

Being cautious about biases and avoiding global judgments in favor of specific verbal and nonverbal cues like body language and speech patterns.

Recognizing common deceptive behaviors such as failure to answer directly, statements aimed to convince rather than inform, and nonverbal indicators like mouth or eye covering and throat clearing.