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Malaysia Flight 370 Pilot Mass Murder

May 14, 2018/in emotional intelligence, Emotions, expression, face reading, facial profiling, mass murder/by Eyes for Lies

60 Minutes Australia aired a show this past week where they interviewed international experts on the missing Malaysia flight 370. The experts concluded that the pilot Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah took down the plane on purpose killing himself and all 239 passengers and crew on board. They believe his actions were intentional and deliberate.

If you recall, when the plane first disappeared, I came out on March 19, 2014, eleven days after the plane went missing, and shared my thoughts on the pilots from looking at their photos.  I wrote that from facial profiling of the Captain. I had concerns about him and a possible “deviant side” to his personality. I did not worry about the co-pilot.  Check it out here.

From 2014:

…I see a slight deviant side to his personality–a side that makes me pause slightly. I have hesitation to trust him completely. And ironically, I don’t see this side of him in all of his photos, but is clearly there, which means he could have fooled people.

Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, in the photos found online of him, showed many expressions of contempt. Contempt is an expression of superiority, an arrogance and better-than-you attitude that can’t be dismissed–then add in his deviant side and I had elevated concerns.

Look at his photo in my post from 2014.  Can you see those features?

His photos also revealed he had a dual personality, too, that was clearly evident.

While personality profiling isn’t 100% predictive, it does give you awareness that there is INCREASED RISK which is very important for safety.  Scientists have been studying “personality identification at zero acquaintance” and they are finding it has significant accuracy and value.  I have a natural talent for this and believe it could be of great use to keep people safe.

How could this information help an investigation?  I talk about it in this post here.

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Reading Foreign Faces

March 20, 2016/3 Comments/in expression, facial expressions, facial features, facial profiling/by Eyes for Lies

As Westerners, when we look at people from the East, we often struggle to identify different nationalities. It’s more challenging for us to identify Taiwanese features and distinguish them from say Japanese or Vietnamese features.  It’s even difficult at times to distinguish the differences in facial subtleties of people of the same nationality.

But have you ever wondered if we are equally as challenging to read to Easterners?

We actually are more challenging for them to differentiate for them, too!

Does this surprise you?

If you want the answers to this test given on the video, click over to the YouTube video and the answers are in the text below the video.

Do you find this interesting?

It’s much like meeting a foreigner. You assume “they” have an accent, right? When in reality you BOTH have an accent to each other.

Thanks to Paul for sharing this!

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How Much You Smile Could Predict Your Divorce Potential

August 12, 2015/9 Comments/in 7 Universal Expressions, Emotions, facial expressions, facial features, facial profiling/by Eyes for Lies

Turn that frown upside down

In a 2009 study from DePauw University, researchers found that how much you smiled as a child and young adult could accurately predict your divorce potential. Check it out.

I find that fascinating because I believe emotional expressions are windows to our soul, and who we are as people. I also believe we are hard-wired to feel certain emotions. I suspect that our facial structure actually predisposes us to feel certain emotions more than others. The reason I say that is people who have what I call a very happy face structure (high check bones, broad smiles, and round faces) are typically happy people. Ask people with these faces next time, and they can’t help but smile! And people with heavy brows often stress and frown more. It’s just the way it is.

People who have droopy outer corners of their eyes will have more of a tendency to feel sadness.

So I absolutely believe people who frown more and smile less are much more likely to have a marriage end in divorce. Do you?

15 Signs A Marriage May End In Divorce

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Do you have “cognitive” or “affective” empathy?

June 23, 2015/34 Comments/in emotional intelligence, empathy, facial expressions, facial profiling/by Eyes for Lies

brain lobes

A team of researchers, led by Robert Eres, from Monash University in Australia, have identified that people have physically different brains depending on the type of empathy they have.

I do not find this surprising at all. I believe that who we are is much more hard-wired than most of us realize.

So the question is: Are you a rational or emotional decision maker?

If you are emotional, you have affective empathy. If you are rational, you are a cognitive empathy.

When I sum up a person in front of me when assessing people, this is one element I look for immediately.  People wear how they make decision on their face.

Why is this important for me?  Because if you are telling me something, I will know how reliable you are by the type of decisions you make (rational or emotional).  Emotions cloud judgement and will affect one’s ability to see things clearly and that matters when getting to the truth!

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Drew Peterson “Ultimate Jury Consultant” says Lawyer

July 25, 2012/in facial profiling, murder/by Eyes for Lies

When the jury for the Drew Peterson trial was being selected, guess who participated in their selection? None other than Drew Peterson himself.

Drew Peterson’s attorney, Joel Brodsky even said to the media, “We have the ultimate jury consultant and that’s ah…Drew Peterson.”

Yes, you can say that’s no surprise because Drew Peterson is arrogant, but on this one, I have to agree he is likely very good at reading people, understanding people’s vulnerabilities and weaknesses as well as their strengths!

Smart psychopaths can read people extremely well!

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Renee Ellory has written this blog since 2006, dedicating her free time to help others understand people. By sharing her insights on human behavior, deception and the truth.

Many people have shared with Renee their personal stories of how her insight has greatly affected their lives. It definitely motivates Renee to continue to dedicate her time when she is available.

Renee tracked her accuracy publicly for 7.5 years, and was 95% accurate, whereas the average person is 54% accurate. She didn’t miss a case for five years sharing her thoughts before the truth was known! She is a scientifically tested and studied expert.

While she doesn’t track her cases anymore due to limited time, she still shares her opinions with the public when time allows.

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