Emotional Intelligence and Deception Detection: Why Most People Can't ‘Read’ Others, But a Few Can

In this chapter we will consider why most people seem impervious to the many nonverbal cues that they could use to understand the thoughts, feelings and intentions of others. Evidence will be offered that there are such cues that can be used to detect deception, as well as some initial findings from a small group of lie detection "wizards" which suggest that at least some people are able to use these cues in understanding others.