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SmartBrief features Pamela Meyer’s comments on workplace integrity

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Don’t look now, but the person reading this over your shoulder is a liar. So is the barista who just served you coffee. So are you. We’re all liars. In fact, studies have shown that we’re regularly told anywhere from … Read More →

Pamela Meyer’s editorial and TED Talk on CNN

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A glance at recent headlines indicates just how serious and pervasive deceit and lying are in daily life. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is busy trading allegations of sexual harassment with several women; each side accuses the other of lying. … Read More →

CNN Covers 10 top questions that emerged at TED Global

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Meeting for the first time in Edinburgh, TED Global drew 850 people, from 70 countries. Among the other questions raised in talks at the conference… Read More →

Pamela Meyer speaks at TED Global

Pamela Meyer, bestselling author

Do gorillas lie?

They have been known to. Koko, the gorilla taught sign language, once blamed her pet kitten for ripping a sink out of the wall, but it’s us humans who are the true masters of the art. According to Pamela Meyer, a social media expert, we are living in a “post-truth society”. Those Facebook friends of yours, for example? Just how real are they? Lying, she says, is the bridge between reality and our fantasies, between who we are and who we want to be.

And it’s a cooperative act. You can only be lied to if you agree to it. Strangers lie three times within the first 10 minutes of meeting. But then again, according to Meyer, married couples lie to each other once in every 10 interaction…

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Stretch-Goal Research from the book Liespotting cited in Harvard Business Review

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…..Aside from those three behavioral clues, you should also consider
if the speaker is more likely to lie. You’ll find plenty of new
research on this subject, much of which has been conducted by Pamela
Meyer. For example, she explains that a person who is under pressure
(behind on a project, needing to earn a performance reward, struggling
to meet quarterly expectations) is more apt to stretch the truth than
someone who is not… Read More →

Seven Big Lies About Lying – Huffington Post

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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception…. Read More →

5 Must-Read Books by TED Global 2011 Speakers

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Liespotting included on list! Last week, TED revealed next month’s TED Global speakers and I was delighted to find, as always, some of my favorite thinkers, writers, and doers on the list. Here are five fantastic books by some of … Read More →

Wary Investors Turn to Lie Pro’s

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When screening a fund manager, investors like to see experience and a consistent record or returns. Elizabeth Prial, however, looks for dilated pupils and uneven breathing.Ms. Prial, a psychologist and former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, has spent most of her career looking for lies in the statements of mafia hitmen and terrorists. Now, she is on the hunt for the next Bernard Madoff, selling her deception-detection skills to institutional investors and others with large pools of money who want to know if prospective fund managers are telling the truth. Read More →

Liespotting featured in Finance News

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Is a Business Lying? 5 Ways You Can Tell
…That’s the advice of Pamela Meyer, author of Liespotting. “Know your subject’s laugh, posture, fidget patterns, so that when he or she veers from his norm on a hard question, you take note,” she advises. Research has shown that someone who… Read More →

Split Magazine features Liespotting

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…Author Pamela Meyer, a certified fraud examiner, is no dummy. With an MBA from Harvard, she shares her lie-spotting tools, which include analyzing facial expression, body posture, intonation and inflection… Read More →