The Truth About Lying: How to Spot a Lie and Protect Yourself from Deception

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Summary: If there are no other options...
Review: This book had minimal useful information drowned out by tons of verbose, redundant paragraphs with spelling mistakes. It talked more about identifying stress then really being able to tell if someone was lying. The useful information in that book filled about 4 pages worth of space. All the rest is repetative and common sense. Very little of it provoks the response of "oh wow, i didn't know that." If you are looking for a book on lie detection, don't consider this as a first choice.

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Summary: The truth about spotting emotional stress and deception
Review: This book spends a great deal of time discussing the fact that the best way to determine if someone is lying is to examine their stress level. Even a person who lies as a regular pathological pattern shows some sort of stress and physiological reaction. It is not a quick process but it does show how to determine when a person is under stress. When that stress level changes as a result of a specific question then it is time to determine why there was a stress change. Were they lying? Maybe, or maybe it is because there are other stress factors related to the question.
The techniques go from learning to spot stress signals and knowing when a stress signal in one person is not a stress signal in another person to how to move to a position of determining the source of the stress.
The book also covers knowing when to shut up and let the person's stress levels and psychological state push them to completing a confession.
The book deals with questions of how to spot a lie, how to deal with it once it is uncovered, the social implications of lying. The book also covers the common ways that people react to being exposed and how they try to continue the deception.
An interesting part of this book is the part where Mr Walters does not let the person being lied to off the hook. Sometimes the person being lied to is part of the reason for the lie. Sometimes they set up the situation so that the liar feels they have no choice but to lie.
An excellent book on the subject from a highly experienced author, it gives all the foundational knowledge that you need to become an expert. All you need now is practice.