Mary Ellen O'Toole Ph.D

This book provides very basic information on cognitive processes that mislead us in reading people and on how to interview people paying attention to deceptive responses.

The book could have been greatly improved if it's structure were more streamlined, less repetitive, and a little more sophisticated in content. Also, I thought that a national picture of crime and a discussion of the likelihood that we will encounter various kinds of danger would have put the book into much better context. Sometimes the kinds of danger she discussed didn't sound that likely to occur for most of us, but a national picture of the sorts of crime she discusses would have been helpful to put those assumptions to the test.… (más)