[humanser] Interpreting non-verbals and making eye contactwith client's

[Anjelina]

Thank you for this article. I will be able to share it with my instructor.


-Anjelina
Sent from my iPad

> On Jul 19, 2014, at 5:51 PM, "JD Townsend" <43210 at Bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> New York Times Science Desk Section 2014 03
> 25
> 
> 
> FINDINGS.  Their Pants Aren't on Fire.  By JOHN TIERNEY.  Like
> the rest of us, airport security screeners like to think they can
> read body language.  The Transportation Security Administration
> has spent some $1 billion training thousands of 'behavior
> detection officers' to look for facial expressions and other
> nonverbal clues that would identify terrorists.
> 
> But critics say there's no evidence that these efforts have
> stopped a single terrorist or accomplished much beyond
> inconveniencing tens of thousands of passengers a year.  The
> T.S.A.  seems to have fallen for a classic form of
> self-deception: the belief that you can read liars' minds by
> watching their bodies..
> 
> Most people think liars give themselves away by averting their
> eyes or making nervous gestures, and many law-enforcement
> officers have been trained to look for specific tics, like gazing
> upward in a certain manner.  But in scientific experiments,
> people do a lousy job of spotting liars.  Law-enforcement
> officers and other presumed experts are not consistently better
> at it than ordinary people even though they're more confident in
> their abilities.
> 
> 'There's an illusion of insight that comes from looking at a
> person's body,' says Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral
> science at the University of Chicago.  'Body language speaks to
> us, but only in whispers.
> 
> The T.S.A.  program was reviewed last year by the federal
> government's Government Accountability Office, which recommended
> cutting funds for it because there was no proof of its
> effectiveness.  That recommendation was based on the meager
> results of the program as well as a survey of the scientific
> literature by the psychologists Charles F.  Bond Jr.  and Bella
> M.  DePaulo, who analyzed more than 200 studies.
> 
> In those studies, people correctly identified liars only 47
> percent of the time, less than chance.  Their accuracy rate was
> higher, 61 percent, when it came to spotting truth tellers, but
> that still left their overall average, 54 percent, only slightly
> better than chance.  Their accuracy was even lower in experiments
> when they couldn't hear what was being said, and had to make a
> judgment based solely on watching the person's body language.
> 
> 'The common-sense notion that liars betray themselves through
> body language appears to be little more than a cultural fiction,'
> says Maria Hartwig, a psychologist at John Jay College of
> Criminal Justice in New York City.  Researchers have found that
> the best clues to deceit are verbal -- liars tend to be less
> forthcoming and tell less compelling stories -- but even these
> differences are usually too subtle to be discerned reliably=
> 
> 
> JD Townsend LCSW
> Helping the light dependent to see.
> Daytona Beach, Earth, Sol System
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Merry Schoch via humanser
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 10:40 AM
> To: 'Anjelina' ; 'Human Services Division Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [humanser] Interpreting non-verbals and making eye contactwith client's
> 
> Hi Angelina,
> 
> JD submitted an article to this list re: this topic.  I will look for it to
> repost  and also have it posted to our web site.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Anjelina
> via humanser
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 10:16 AM
> To: Human Services Mailing List
> Subject: [humanser] Interpreting non-verbals and making eye contact with
> client's
> 
> Good morning all,I look forward to hearing about the Human Services meeting.
> The agenda looked very informative.
> I may have asked this question before, so I apologize for any redundancy.
> I am currently enrolled in an advanced standing MSW program. As I was
> discussing with my professor how I would complete an assignment, he asked me
> if I have thought about the challenges of being a totally blind social
> worker since our culture values eye contact and most communication is
> nonvertbal. I informed him there are a lot of practicing social workers who
> are blind.
> What are your thoughts or experiences? How have you dealt with the
> nonverbals of communication? I look forward to sharing your wisdom with my
> professor and proving to skeptics I can be an effective social worker who
> happens to be blind.
> 
> 
> -Anjelina
> Sent from my iPad
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> JD Townsend LCSW
> Helping the light dependent to see.
> Daytona Beach, Earth, Sol System