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This is good recommendation. There are also books about interrogation techniques. As someone that used to meet management teams often (pre-COVID) monitoring body language was part of my process. What you learn over time is that you can’t assess a person from the first interaction. You need to have met with them many times and have good notes on the meetings. You aren’t trying to catch them in a lie, usually, but see if something changed in a material way. I think it is very useful, but only when it involves people that I’ve met with many times.

For example, let’s say you see the CEO of company a few times a year in 1:1 meetings. Every time you ask a few identical questions (develop your baseline) along with new ones. Perhaps one relates to assets that you think they want to buy. This time the CEOs body language changed in a material way. So you start to dig in more to see if it was just the questionable lunch everyone had. If it wasn’t then you pursue more; talk with bankers, other companies. If the dots connect perhaps it helps with a decision or trade you were planning.

 
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