Deception Tips Video 27 — Suggesting Consequences

Hey guys, my name is Spencer Coffman, thank you for watching the deception tips videos. They’re all about teaching you how to read people and detect deception so that you will be able to tell if someone is lying to you.

Today, we’re going to kind of tie into what we talked about last time, about suggesting things or getting some feedback. It is a strategy that you can use to determine whether or not someone is being truthful or not.

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Now this one, instead of suggesting a potential consequence or suggesting a potential thing or accusing them of something greater to get them to admit to something this has to do with allowing them to dictate the outcome of whatever is happening.

So, for example, if you have kids, if they’ve done something and you say well what do you think the punishment should be or what do you think this should be? For law enforcement when they’re interrogating people they would maybe ask them well what do you think the typical sentence would be for this sort of crime?

You would get two different responses, you would get multiple different responses depending on the situation but…