June 10, 2011
Registration (continental breakfast available)
8:15 - 8:45 am
Session
8:45 am - 5:00 pm
(A lunch break will be taken from 12:00 - 1:00 pm)
• Improve Foundational Skills (Take Home Message 1)
– Reading Emotions in Others
– Reading Nonverbal Behaviors
• Build Knowledge: Understanding the Psychology of Truth Telling and Lying
• Improve Hot Spotting Skills (Take Home Messages 2 and 3)
• Application of These Skills to Depositions, Witness Interviews, and Voir Dire
Networking Reception
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Session
8:15 am to 5:00 pm (continental breakfast available)
(A lunch break will be taken from 12:00 - 1:00 pm)
• Review and More Practice of Reading Microexpressions
• Emotional Reactions to Lying (three types)
• Other Channels of Leakage
– Facial behaviors (cognition)
– Voice
– Verbal Content
– Other emblems
• More Practice
• Final Discussion on Application of These Skills to Depositions, Witness Interviews,
and Voir Dire
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Program Goals
Knowledge
• About emotion
– Universality of facial expressions of emotion
–Triggers and functions of emotion
• About nonverbal behavior
•Psychology of truth telling and lying
Skills
• Reading faces
– Emotions
• Macroexpressions
• Microexpressions
• Subtle expressions
– Cognitions
• Reading body language
– Emblematic gestures
• Identifying vocal cues
– Voice
– Verbal style
• Hot spotting
– Contradictory emotions
– Identifying micros
– Contradictory emblems
– Hypothesis testing
Application to Legal Practice
• Depositions
– Review deposition video and identify witnesses’ truthfulness and lying
– Identify conflict between gestures and statements
– Identify areas that cause stress
– Frame questions to elicit stressors
• Client Interviews
– Determine if client is hiding information
– Identify client’s dominant emotions and whether it will affect credibility
• Jury Selection
– Evaluate jurors’ motives or agenda to be on jury
– Identify jurors whose core beliefs are inconsistent with a desired outcome
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CLE Information
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