Deception Tips Video 93 — Real Memories

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 talk about a technique that you can use. It’s more of a strategy, an interrogation strategy, that you can use based upon a person’s memory and how the mind works encoding data and making memories.

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You’re going to learn a little bit about how the brain forms these memories and how it retrieves them and how you can use that information to your advantage when someone is telling you their story. So, here it is, this is Deception Tip number 93. Real memories are recorded using all senses, whereas lies are mainly visual. Question liars by asking them about how something smelled, felt, sounded, tasted, etc.

Real memories are recorded using all the senses, why is this? When they experience something, they are there, therefore, they know what they experienced, they were there. They saw it, they heard things around them, they smelled things, they may touch things, felt them, they experienced the whole area…