The saying, “The mouth can lie, but the body can’t” is largely true. During an interview, increased cognitive activity often “leaks” out into a person’s body language, behavioral activity, and other physical manifestations that, to the trained eye, are indicators of guilt and/or deception. In this webinar, we explore some of the common behavioral leakages that manifest during forensic interviews and examine a number of case studies of actual interviews.
Resources and Handouts
- Resource: Mark McClish and Statement Analysis
- Resource: Wicklander-Zulawksi – Forensic Interviewing
- Book: Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception by Pamela Meyer
- Ted Talk: How to Spot a Liar with Pamela Meyer
- Other work/resources from Pamela Meyer: https://pamelameyer.com/
- American Psychological Association: False Confessions aren’t Always What they Seem with Saul Kassin (Podcast and Transcript)
- Journal Article: False Confessions by Saul Kassin
- Other work by Saul Kassin: https://www.saulkassin.org/
Audience Comments
- “Well done! Interesting and easy to follow.” — Emilyn
- Excellent presentation! As an Institutional Parole officer, this was very insightful! THANK YOU!!!!!” — Erin
- “The videos describing the behaviors were very informative. The speaker was very knowledgeable.” — Margaret
- “Walking through the videos was helpful to learn the concepts. Thank you.” — Cheryl
- “Behavioral leakages” – video examples and Ray identifying the indicators as the interviews progress. very helpful thank you !!!” — Jeannette
- “The presenter was a great teacher and focused on the topic he was teaching. Some other presenters spend more time talking about their own contributions to the field or discussing their literature review; as a result, the educational part of the presentation takes away from the application portion. I am grateful for this presenter’s focus on learning and applying the skills taught so I can use them in the field.” — melissa
- “It was that he distilled the principles down to basics so it was easy to understand and begin to utilize right away.” — Michael
- “Amazing presentation. Videos really benefited by demonstrating learning points. Hope to see you in another class. Thank you.” — Omar
- “Ray Nash of www.PoliceDynamics.com offered a lot of new information to me; very helpful tools and observations shared. I found it all very worthwhile, thank you.” — Kelly
- “Great presenter! Really prepared! Great slides and examples!” — Kenny
- “The list of “common indicators of guilt” was very helpful. The video demonstrations were excellent.” — Lukas
- “Working with sex offenders and the general probation population, this skill set is essential for myself and my staff. Being able to verbally describe and name the concepts helps with court documents and supervision.” — Barbara
- “It was excellent information to be used across the board in Law Enforcement. I work for Probation and we talk to clients every day and I have seen a LOT if not all of those indicators over the years. It was great to see concrete examples of it and have names to put to it.” — Joseph
- “Great webinar. I will definitely be looking at my probationers when I am questioning them. This topic really interested me and seeing the videos along with the verbal was great. Thank you for this webinar!” — Leslie
- “I’m a CASA now that I have retired. I have had some training using Mark McClish?? material as an educator, and school administrator to conduct evidence-based interviews with students and staff. This was fascinating. I now work with teen boys mostly as a CASA. I want to sharpen my ability to know when they are lying. This was a great review of some material and an intro to new material. If I wasn’t retired I’d take all your courses to get certified. So helpful.” — Anne
- “Sheriff Nash is very adept on this topic of reading body language to determine if someone is lying. He presents in a way that is easy to follow and the videos he uses is very helpful to identify the different identifying factors on how to read body language.” — Robin
- “I loved the format of giving an overview of the main concepts, and then using the case studies to highlight how the concepts can be used in practice. Ray is an excellent speaker and I liked how he paused the case study videos to give insight. I’d love to see more webinars from Ray in the future!” — Sarah
- “This was one of the best webinars! So much information. Just fascinating! Loved it and really enjoy listening to Ray Nash! He is so informative. I have supervised sex offenders on Probation for most of my 30 year career and I find behavior observation so interesting.” — Devra
