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posted by guiltygoth
How to tell if someone is lying? Carefully. All methods of lie-detecting, including polygraph machines, are regularly fooled অথবা used improperly, resulting in mistakes. There are a few good ways described here, but try to নিশ্চিত the truth দ্বারা other means as well, such as confession অথবা investigation of the facts.

আপনি should compare behavior in the person under suspicion to their "base" behavior, if possible. In other words, if they always have shifty eyes, then this trait can't be considered as an indication of lying. On the other hand, if they are normally very calm under pressure, but start shifting in their chair after certain questions, that may indicate lying. Because all techniques fail at times, আপনি should use several indications before assuming the person has lied.

How To Tell If Someone Is Lying দ্বারা Testing Responses

One way to test for lying, is to measure a persons desire to avoid a subject, which will sometimes indicate dishonesty অথবা guilt. If আপনি think the person is lying, change the subject quickly. A lying person will often go along easily, and may even visibly relax. An innocent person is আরো likely to be slightly confused দ্বারা the change and want to finish their thoughts.

Another lie detecting technique is to suggest something that would make a guilty person feel uncomfortable and watch for a response. Suppose your wife Jane says she was at her mother's house, and আপনি think she is lying. Rather than saying, "I'm calling your mother to verify this," আপনি could use a subtle approach. আপনি might say, "That reminds me, I'm going to stop দ্বারা your mother's house today to fix that door for her." <




If your wife was lying, the idea of আপনি seeing her mother should make her nervous. She may give আপনি reasons why আপনি shouldn't go there. Of course, if your relationship has reached the point where আপনি feel the necessity to resort to these techniques, a simple lie may not be the worst of your problems. Still, sometimes আপনি need to know, so here are a few আরো ways to tell if someone is lying.

They are using your words. Using your exact words to respond can be an indication of lying. আপনি say, for example, "Did আপনি leave this here?" and they respond, "No, I did not leave this here."

They use un-contracted words. A lack of contractions is আরো common when lying. For example, instead of saying "I didn't sleep with her," a man might say," I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Again, compare to base behavior, though, as some people may not use contractions often anyhow.

Over-compensation. Often when people lie, they try too hard to be natural, and they give আরো detail than is necessary.

Forced smiles. A real smile involves আরো muscles, while a forced smile will use just the muscles around the mouth. The lie here may only be about their feelings, of course.

Let them talk. The আরো a person talks, the আরো likely আপনি are to catch them in a lie (if they are being dishonest), especially when আপনি learn the indications to watch for. These are just a few of the ways how to tell if someone is lying.
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It is commonly believed myth that personality testing instruments can measure your personality and predict your future behaviors. The pre-employment testing mechanism has been following this creed without any solid evidence. The testing industry claims all out validity. The educational institutions and employer organizations use them for screening purposes. Their transparency and equity has even convinced the courts of law.

But it is still an unresolved riddle; what do they test?

Do they test personality? What is personality then? What is its nature? How does it come into existence? Is it outcome...
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If আপনি Laugh... Life Is What? দ্বারা Hanala Sagal via FilmCourage.com.
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Daniel J. Levitin, 2008, 354 pages

Could সঙ্গীত unlock the mystery of who we are and how we think?

An unprecedented blend of science and art, Daniel Levitin’s bestselling debut, This Is Your Brain on Music, changed the way we understand how সঙ্গীত gets in our heads. Now, in what is being called a tour de force দ্বারা leading scientists, he presents his audacious theory of ‘six songs,’ the key to how সঙ্গীত shaped humanity across cultures and throughout history.

Preserving the emotional heritage of our lives and of our species, সঙ্গীত from its very beginning, was allied to dance, as the structure...
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posted by arj1981
Indoctrination is simply misconstrued Subjectivity..... Therefore, this is an Anti-Dogmatic, NonDualistic, Spiritual Community. As the শিরোনাম states, this is the dawn of a new era. A new day...A New Eve. We, here, do not adhere to the belief of Karma, any "perilous missions" to rescue humanity on behalf of a particular deity, soul mates/twin flames, superstitions, dogma, Law of Attraction, Ego, Satan, Christ, অথবা God; yet, we do believe in the existence of an After Life, reincarnation, and spirit beings (as in, those who have already passed away). All the drama, chaos, and violence in the world...
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Living Life As Performance Art দ্বারা Dar Dixon via FilmCourage.com.
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Michael shares about a young man who drove himself to depression & addiction to please his family's wishes that he go to law school, instead of film/screenwriting. আরো চলচ্ছবি at link
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Trusting The Unknown দ্বারা Ronna Prince of Sacred Journey of the হৃদয় (a documentary about healing).
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The Connection Between Comedy And Pain দ্বারা Peter Desberg & Jeffrey Davis of the book প্রদর্শনী ME THE FUNNY via link আরো video interviews at link
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posted by guiltygoth
Secret information? Okay, probably not much remains truly hidden অথবা forbidden anymore, but there are little secrets about how things work. Salesmen, politicians, and others learn and use subtle techniques to influence you. "Lucky people" use little-known tricks to get that way. Here are some examples.

Controling Through Words

There is a classic joke, "Have আপনি stopped beating your wife?" It is difficult to answer without incriminating yourself. This technique of the implicit premise is used দ্বারা politicians for আরো than jokes. Get everyone to argue about how to do something, for example, like...
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It's a psychedelic psychiatric evaluation! ALL the most classic findings on a mental status exam, helpfully illustrated দ্বারা pertinent Beatles lyrics...because, really, why not?!
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Have আপনি ever wondered why your spouse, coworkers, অথবা children seem to think so differently from you? আপনি may not understand why they make the decisions they do, অথবা why they place such importance on things that seem inconsequential to you. It is possible to understand the উত্তর to all these questions. The secret lies in the theory of Myers-Briggs personality type.

In the 1960's a psychological theorist named Katharine Briggs had many of the same প্রশ্ন আপনি do. She wondered why some of her family members had such logical, linear thinking processes, when she herself was আরো likely to take...
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It's a bit obvious, but still quite interesting.
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The Stanford prison experiment was ostensibly a psychological study of human responses to captivity and its behavioral effects on both authorities and inmates in prison. It was conducted in 1971 দ্বারা a team of researchers led দ্বারা Philip Zimbardo
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The experiment was designed দ্বারা the Yale বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় social psychologist, Stanley Milgram, to demonstrate the willingness of subjects to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that were ethically amoral.
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posted by GypsyMarionette
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Ablutophobia- Fear of washing অথবা bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching অথবা of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, অথবা airbourne noxious substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces অথবা of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a নিরাপদ place.
Agraphobia- Fear of sexual...
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