Reading People
How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior -- Anytime, Anyplace
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Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Your eyes will be opened as mine have been by these tips from America’s leading people-readers.”—Chris Matthews
How can you “hear between the lines” to detect a lie? When is intuition the best guide to making important decisions? What are the tell-tale signs of romantic attraction? Jo-Ellan Dimitrius—America’s leading behavioral expert—shows us how to spot the critical clues to a person’s integrity, work habits, and sexual interests, and to interpret these signs with accuracy and precision.
In this phenomenal guide—now revised and updated—Dimitrius shows us how to read a person like a book. By decoding the hidden messages in appearance, tone of voice, facial expression, and personal habits, she applies the secrets of her extraordinary courtroom success to the everyday situations we all face at work, at home, and in relationships.
New material includes:
• How to read people in the age of terror: what to watch for during air travel and trips abroad, and vital information regarding student behaviors in the Columbine High School and Virginia Tech shootings
• What to look for on the Internet: how to decipher behavioral patterns found in and altered by e-mail, text and instant messaging, and on sites like MySpace
• Facts on body language and health: how chronic illnesses such as Asperger syndrome and Parkinson’s disease influence the way people are perceived, and essential tips on how to counter these misperceptions
• Fascinating new case studies: how body-reading techniques impacted jury selection and verdicts in major trial battles, including the Enron case
Whether your focus is friendship or marriage, career or family, romance or professional success, Reading People gives you the skills you need to make sound, swift decisions and reap the benefits of razor-sharp insight.
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Now famous for her role in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Dimitrius shares the people-reading techniques she developed over 15 years as a jury consultant. In so doing, she provides a wealth of tips and strategies for ferreting out people's real viewpoints, motives and character traits. Claiming that "reading people is neither a science nor an innate gift," Dimitrius advocates sharpening and fine-tuning powers of observation and deduction. Gathering enough information to establish an overall pattern is the key to her method. Differentiating between "elective and nonelective" traits; setting aside assumptions, prejudices and stereotypes; recognizing body language; and identifying meanings behind personal choices of dress and behavior--all converge to reveal personality, attitude and life experience. Dimitrius rates people on scales of "hardness" or compassion, socioeconomic background and "satisfaction with life"--the three most "consistently reliable" predictors of behavior, according to her. Whether interviewing a baby-sitter, meeting a new date or selecting a jury, this thorough, detailed guide of what to look for could probably improve anyone's ability at seeing and being seen. Author tour.
Customer Reviews
Pretty good book
As a military body language instructor, I absolutely cringed when the author said that laird will break eye contact. There were several of these 'mistakes' throughout the book, but it was a fantastic read.
Many chapters take a long time to get to the point, but the addition of the appendices made for an extremely useful tool.
Well written, fair information and the most successful attempt at a guide that goes into reading people instead of treading water on the body language subject the whole time.
Recommended for beginners and experts.
Outdated
If you want to time travel, read this book. If you like to read about courtrooms, read this book. But everyone else, nope. It’s rather annoying to constantly refer to the same thing with no specific information.
Great book
Very valuable information, well worth learning if people use this book as a guideline to check behaviors they see in themselves and others. You get quicker in time and learn to see more and more in just moments as time goes on. Take your time read through this one through once to get a quick base knowledge then again slowly and in pieces focusing on developing each piece until you become more adept.