Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised and Updated Edition)

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 386 pages
• Published by: W. W. Norton & Company; 2 Rev Sub edition September 10, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0393321886
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0393321883
• Book Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 12 ounces

Carol Z. Malatesta, New York Times Book Review
Ekman [is] a pioneer in emotions research and nonverbal communication. . . . Accurate, intelligent, informative, and thoughtful.

Jerome D. Frank, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
[A] wealth of detailed, practical information about lying and lie detection and a penetrating analysis of the ethical implications.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Paperback) The title of this book suggests a practical approach: "Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics and marriage". However the actual content is very different. Thorough the whole book the author mainly explains the results of some experiments he has done at the university. The results are interesting but non practical at all. Actually, it seems to me that the main conclusion of the book is that there are no reliable methods or tests to find out if someone is lying. The references to marriage, politics and the marketplace are just anecdotical and non substantial to the book. I am not saying that the book is not interesting. What I'm saying is that the title is deceiving and seems to be only a marketing strategy to make it attractive to more people. That is not exactly honest, specially for a book dealing with lies and deceit. Comment | | (Report this)