My Thoughts: Jessica Del Rocco
I absolutely believe Del Rocco is telling us the truth about her experiences with Ray Clark. She is genuine, authentic, and a tad bit nervous, which makes sense for her considering this is likely her first time on national TV.
I can see how people who specifically look for clues to deception would question Del Rocco. You see her smiling at odd times, she is nervous and even tense. She swallows awkwardly, shrugs her shoulders, hesitates, and doesn’t answer all the questions. She even smiles when she says she doesn’t want to talk about some things.
That’s what makes deception detection so interesting to me. How do we know she is being honest?
Read moreFor those of you who said she was honest, what gave you that impression? How do you distinguish honesty from deception, because it is clearly not the clues that help us in making a determination, because if we looked for clues, she gives some good ones. I suspect that is why some people (37% of those polled) were unsure and unable to decide. Am I correct for those of you who were torn?
When I look at someone, I get an immediate intuitive sense of them. When I say intuitive, I suspect it is my subconscious brain that is analyzing things I am not consciously aware of, but it communicates in simple terms to me. Like when we almost get run off the road, but move in a split second, and that move saves our life. You don’t communicate with your primitive/intuitive brain, “Oh danger. What do I do? Do I turn left? Oh, I won’t make it. Go right!! No, turn left. Now!” If we did that, we’d be dead!
Instead, our intuitive/primitive brain keeps the decisions that must happen at lightening speed quiet, and instead instinctively makes us react and that saves our life. For me, I think my intuitive/primitive brain is working all the time, and I am attuned to it more than most people.
With Del Rocco, I can honestly say that her face gave me immediately comfort. I’ve learned I have what one could call intuitive sense of people by just looking at their face. The problem with it, while I have come to understand it, is that it is not something easy to explain because it is very complicated and I am still learning from it. I think I am learning to create a pathway of understanding between my conscious thoughts and my unconscious thoughts.
With this intuitive sense of someone’s personality, it doesn’t tell me if they are honest or deceptive, but it gives me a framework of understanding about who they are. Del Rocco’s features identify she is normally a down-to-earth person, who is honest and says things like they are. So if she were to act all arrogant and conceited, I’d have an immediate red flag that something wasn’t right. Does that make sense?
When I look at Del Rocco, I get an intuitive sense that it is hard for her to self-censor herself, because she is used to saying what is on her mind, but I suspect the police asked her to do this for this case, which if I think about now, would likely explain why those behaviors didn’t set me off as red flags when I watched her. This is quite complex and I’ve never tried to explain it before.
I don’t know how I know this, but I am confident in it. This combined with her authentic-ness, and lack of inconsistencies is what helped me know that she was, in fact, honest, and that I could trust my “intuition”. And my very last thought as I watched this video was, what would her motivation be to lie anyway? I couldn’t come up with anything.
That is true, deep honesty about what I think about when I look at cases, but I have held back because I don’t want the “pyshic crew” to come jumping all over me. I am not psychic. I think I have tapped into my subconscious brain more than most people, and I suspect I do it naturally, due to how I am hard-wired. My own personal opinion is this is what gives me an edge at understanding human behavior, and deception detection.
