Psychological narrative analysis a professional method to detect deception in written and oral communications - Schafer, John R. (Charles C Thomas Publisher, 2010)
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PSYCHOLOGICAL NARRATIVE ANALYSIS; CONTENTS; Chapter 1 WORD CLUES; Chapter 2 HUMAN COMMUNICATIONAND DECEPTION; Chapter 3 LYING BY OBFUSCATION; Chapter 4 LYING BY OMISSION; Chapter 5 THE MICRO-ACTION INTERVIEW; Chapter 6 TESTING FOR DECEPTION; Chapter 7 WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS; Chapter 8 ORAL COMMUNICATIONS; Appendix A PNA OF WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS; Appendix B PNA OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONS; Appendix C PRACTICE STATEMENT; INDEX.
During the author's 25 years as a police officer and FBI special agent, he witnessed countless lies told for a variety of reasons in every imaginable circumstance from petty criminals to sophisticated international spies, each with differing levels of ability to lie convincingly. This led to groundbreaking research examining the grammatical differences between truthful and deceptive narratives and the development of organized word and grammar patterns. This robust Psychological Narrative Analysis (PNA) system tests truthfulness in both written and oral communications and provides clues to the