The Truth Detector: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide for Getting People to Reveal the Truth
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Learn how to outwit liars and get them to tell the truth in this “revelatory work” from the former FBI agent and author of The Like Switch (Publishers Weekly).
Unlike many other books on lie detection and behavioral analysis, this revolutionary guide reveals the FBI-developed practice of elicitation, the field-tested technique for encouraging people to provide information they would otherwise keep secret. Now you can learn this astonishing method directly from the expert who created this technique and pioneered it for the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Program.
Filled with easy-to-follow, accessible lessons reinforced by fascinating stories of how to put these skills into action using natural human behaviors, The Truth Detector shows you all of the tips and techniques you need to gain someone’s trust and get liars to reveal the truth.
Unlike many other books on lie detection and behavioral analysis, this revolutionary guide reveals the FBI-developed practice of elicitation, the field-tested technique for encouraging people to provide information they would otherwise keep secret. Now you can learn this astonishing method directly from the expert who created this technique and pioneered it for the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Program.
Filled with easy-to-follow, accessible lessons reinforced by fascinating stories of how to put these skills into action using natural human behaviors, The Truth Detector shows you all of the tips and techniques you need to gain someone’s trust and get liars to reveal the truth.
- Title: The Truth Detector: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide for Getting People to Reveal the Truth
- Authors: Jack Schafer, Marvin Karlins
- Publisher: Atria Books
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 274
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781982139124, 9781982139070, 1982139072, 1982139129
- Resource ID: LLS:9781982139124
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T17:14:32Z
John R. “Jack” Schafer, PhD, is a psychologist, professor, intelligence consultant, and former FBI Special Agent. Dr. Schafer spent fifteen years conducting counter-intelligence and counterterrorism investigations, and seven years as a behavioral analyst for the FBI’s National Security Division’s Behavioral Analysis Program. He developed spy recruitment techniques, interviewed terrorists, and trained agents in the art of interrogation and persuasion. Dr. Schafer contributes online pieces for Psychology Today Magazine, has authored/coauthored six books, and has published numerous articles in professional and popular journals. He is a professor with the School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice at Western Illinois University.