How to Spot a Liar

Chapter 8

Extract the Truth

In Chapter 4, we explored the concept of Semper Gumbi and that fact that rigid people can be knocked off center easily. Here’s the extreme downside in a personal relationship: You may try to apply the techniques in this book within the context of your marriage or other serious love affair. If the other person involved has those characteristics of predictability with clothing, for example, and if that person invests emotionally in controlling his or her environment, you could see some nasty behavior result from a disruption of those externals. That’s natural. Your spouse or partner would be resorting to a self-preservation response. You need to know your source, but you also need to heed your context. Most likely, ...