Minas Tirith
Jedi Council Member
Joe Navarro, an FBI Profiler, seems to have written an interesting book about his experiences with psychopaths:
Now I don't know what the last part of the sentence about the fears and concerns means, but I read an interesting interview with him about the book in a German news magazine (next post). Interesting also, that more and more Profilers seem to step forward (like Jim Clemente).
EDIT: His other books might be worth a look, too:
What Every Body is Saying
Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you. You will discover:
- The ancient survival instincts that drive body language
- Why the face is the least likely place to gauge a person's true feelings
- What thumbs, feet, and eyelids reveal about moods and motives
- The most powerful behaviors that reveal our confidence and true sentiments
- Simple nonverbals that instantly establish trust
- Simple nonverbals that instantly communicate authority
Filled with examples from Navarro's professional experience, this definitive book offers a powerful new way to navigate your world..
Louder Than Words
Successfully navigate the business world by understanding what your manager and coworkers are really thinking. The secret is nonverbal intelligence—the ability to interpret and use nonverbal signals in business to assess and influence others. In Louder Than Words, bestselling author and behavior expert Joe Navarro shows you how to decode what's really being said at meetings, interviews, negotiations, presentations, business meals, and more, including the casual exchanges that often impact decisions and reputations.
You can jump-start your career, close the deal, keep your customers, secure new ones, and lead your company with confidence once you discover how to:
- Read body language and discern non-verbal cues of concern, disagreement, or doubt—even over the phone
- Master the all-important first impression and use settings, seating, and gestures to inspire and captivate
- Recognize habits that send the wrong message—and learn what postures, work practices, work spaces, and even electronic habits say about people
Clues to Deceit
This is an easy-to-use short guide with a list of over two hundred of the most frequently seen behaviors associated with deception. It serves as a quick reference list of behaviors associated with deception, the concealment of information, hidden issues, or guilty knowledge.
Narcissists Among Us
Offers practical guidance and a checklist of over 100 typical behaviors and traits associated with Narcissists. This booklet will give you insight into this personality disorder which afflicts millions worldwide, and the tools to quickly assess these individuals. Of all the people that can hurt you, it is the Narcissist who has the widest footprint to do harm.
How to Spot a Borderline Personality
This practical guide and checklist includes the 100 behaviors that are closely associated with this prevalent disorder. This booklet will give you insight into this disorder by examining behaviors that may not be recognizable to you at first but have proven over time to be part of the Borderline Personality.
There are even more books like this:
http://www.jnforensics.com/#!books/cnec
M.T.
For 25 years, Joe Navarro worked as an FBI special agent in the area of counterintelligence and behavioral assessment. Since retiring in 2003, he has become one of the world’s leading experts on nonverbal communication and today travels internationally to share his unique knowledge of human behavior through business lectures and consulting with major corporations and financial institutions. For the past three years, he has also spoken at the Harvard Business School.
Joe has appeared on major U.S. and International media outlets including CNN and CNN International, Fox News, CBS, NBC, NPR Radio, The Times (UK), and The Guardian (UK), on topics as varied as interviewing, terrorism, and body language.
Experts have described Joe as “a world-class observer” (Jack Canfield) and “a master of reading nonverbals” (David Givens, Ph.D).
Joe is also the author of the best-selling body language book, What Every Body is Saying which was published in 2008, Read 'Em and Reap, Advanced Interviewing Techniques, and Hunting Terrorists.
"How To Spot A Psychopath" provides the average person with the tools necessary for spotting and assessing psychopaths. This short booklet/checklist offers practical guidance and a checklist of the 150 behaviors that are closely associated with psychopathy. It is easy to use and will not only give you insight, but will also lay to rest any fears or concerns you have about psychopaths.
Now I don't know what the last part of the sentence about the fears and concerns means, but I read an interesting interview with him about the book in a German news magazine (next post). Interesting also, that more and more Profilers seem to step forward (like Jim Clemente).
EDIT: His other books might be worth a look, too:
What Every Body is Saying
Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you. You will discover:
- The ancient survival instincts that drive body language
- Why the face is the least likely place to gauge a person's true feelings
- What thumbs, feet, and eyelids reveal about moods and motives
- The most powerful behaviors that reveal our confidence and true sentiments
- Simple nonverbals that instantly establish trust
- Simple nonverbals that instantly communicate authority
Filled with examples from Navarro's professional experience, this definitive book offers a powerful new way to navigate your world..
Louder Than Words
Successfully navigate the business world by understanding what your manager and coworkers are really thinking. The secret is nonverbal intelligence—the ability to interpret and use nonverbal signals in business to assess and influence others. In Louder Than Words, bestselling author and behavior expert Joe Navarro shows you how to decode what's really being said at meetings, interviews, negotiations, presentations, business meals, and more, including the casual exchanges that often impact decisions and reputations.
You can jump-start your career, close the deal, keep your customers, secure new ones, and lead your company with confidence once you discover how to:
- Read body language and discern non-verbal cues of concern, disagreement, or doubt—even over the phone
- Master the all-important first impression and use settings, seating, and gestures to inspire and captivate
- Recognize habits that send the wrong message—and learn what postures, work practices, work spaces, and even electronic habits say about people
Clues to Deceit
This is an easy-to-use short guide with a list of over two hundred of the most frequently seen behaviors associated with deception. It serves as a quick reference list of behaviors associated with deception, the concealment of information, hidden issues, or guilty knowledge.
Narcissists Among Us
Offers practical guidance and a checklist of over 100 typical behaviors and traits associated with Narcissists. This booklet will give you insight into this personality disorder which afflicts millions worldwide, and the tools to quickly assess these individuals. Of all the people that can hurt you, it is the Narcissist who has the widest footprint to do harm.
How to Spot a Borderline Personality
This practical guide and checklist includes the 100 behaviors that are closely associated with this prevalent disorder. This booklet will give you insight into this disorder by examining behaviors that may not be recognizable to you at first but have proven over time to be part of the Borderline Personality.
There are even more books like this:
http://www.jnforensics.com/#!books/cnec
M.T.