Welcome to the Social-Engineer Podcast: The Doctor Is In Series – where we will discuss understandings and developments in the field of psychology.

 

In today’s episode, Chris and Abbie are discussing: Deception Detection. While there are many misconceptions about this topic, we are not completely in the dark; we are just not as good as we think. [July 3, 2023]

 

00:00 - Intro

00:18 - Dr. Abbie Maroño Intro

01:18 - Intro Links

-          Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/

-          Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/

-          Managed Email Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/

-          Adversarial Simulations - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/

-          Social-Engineer channel on SLACK - https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb

-          CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/

-          innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/

04:44 - The Topic of the Day: Deception Detection

06:15 - Lying About Lying

09:20 - The Dangers of Being Wrong

11:09 - The "What" is NOT the "Why"

13:41 - The False Narrative of NLP

18:37 - We Love a Myth

21:33 - Mythbusters

24:50 - That's Entertainment!

26:17 - It's Not Deception, It's Stress

31:40 - "We need to talk"

33:11 - Lying in Order

37:23 - Information is Key

38:46 - The Need for a Big-Picture Approach

41:00 - Shameless Plugs

42:27 - Wrap Up

43:21 - Next Month: Learned Helplessness

44:35 - Outro

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-          www.innocentlivesfoundation.org

 

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Vrij, A., Hartwig, M., & Granhag, P. A. (2019). Reading lies: Nonverbal communication and deception. Annual review of psychology, 70, 295-317.

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Ekman, P., & Friesen, W.V. (1969). Nonverbal leakage and clues to deception. Psychiatry, 32, 88–106.

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