![]() ![]() Who knows what more research will show? That is the sort of argument that Behaviorists used for decades. In several places, he says that something has not yet been proven or shown, but he thinks that with more research it will be proven or shown. Ekman's careful descriptions of these indicators are very well worth reading about. However, some of the time for some people, maybe even most people, the indicators will at least make you suspicious that they're lying. ![]() They apparently don't have any consciences. Moreover, some liars are so good that they show no indicators at all. All the machines and facial tics and conversational tics tell you that someone is nervous or anxious and deceit is not the only thing that makes people nervous. And, Paul Ekman himself says that every one of the indicators of lying that he uncovered don't always indicate lying. No book can tell anyone proof-positive indicators of lying. No book can teach anyone to be positive that someone else is telling the truth. He has honestly subtitled this book "Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace,Politics, and Marriage." It is not his fault that the book has been hyped and is advertised as being able to teach us unfailingly when someone is lying. His research is careful, painstaking, and intelligently done. ![]() Paul Ekman is without a doubt one of the top experts in the world on facial expressions in humans. ![]()
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