How to catch a fake person

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The video provides a high-value, actionable psychological tip that promises to solve a common social anxiety, delivered by an authoritative figure in a concise format.

Summary

The speaker explains a psychological technique for identifying insincere people by observing their micro-expressions. He suggests surprising someone to catch a momentary look of disdain before they mask it with a smile.

Structure

1Identify the problem of fake people
2Explain the surprise technique
3Describe the micro-expression of disdain
4Explain how to interpret the reaction

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How to catch a fake person

Transcript

If you suspect someone in your office and you don't know whether they're a snake or they're actually genuinely your friend, you kind of approach them from an angle and you surprise them. And you come up to them and you go, they look at you and for a second you detect what we call a micro expression of disdain and then they put on the smile. That micro expression which scientists, psychologists have studied lasts for like less than a second. You have to be able to read it, but it reveals whether they actually like you or they're totally false. They can't fake it.