The Art of Reading People: A Psychologist's Guide to Learning the Art of How to Analyze People Through Psychological Techniques, Body Language, and Personality Types offers readers a unique and mind-blowing set of knowledge and tools that you can use every day of your life with anyone you meet. The art of reading people involves an in-depth study of human behavior in conjunction with how people express their emotions, even those which are deeply hidden, through their bodies, oftentimes without even realizing it.

You will learn many useful strategies for reading people in various settings, including but not limited to: casual meetings, first dates, business meetings, and large speaking engagements.

• Analysis involving personality types and how they interact
• Cold reading; history and applications
• Structure of persona and how this differs from personality
• Lie detection and the biggest signals that someone is being deceptive
• Theory of mind and the ideologies of information-gathering
• Dangerous personality types and how to identify them, including narcissism and sociopaths
• Criminal profiling and its applications using real-world examples
• Leading phrases and how to probe using simple verbal communication
• Reading body language to inform decisions for how to interact
• How to express confidence and authority before uttering a single word
• Basic concepts of ancient Chinese face reading

Through demonstrating these strategies at work in different scenarios, you will be able to visualize how you can use these strategies to achieve your personal goals, whether it's learning to properly approach and read a potential love interest, making a power play at that important business function, learning how to detect when someone is trying to deceive or manipulate you, or simply arming yourself against potentially dangerous personality types in society.

You will find that through cultivating this specific skill set, you will be able to understand people on a whole new level. Each person you meet has a set of commonalities and differences that are written on their faces and in their body language. Once you learn to decode this unique nonverbal language through the strategies offered in this book, you will be able to win over even the toughest individuals.

Connection is at the heart of every human being's desires and goals, so prepare yourself to connect in a whole new meaningful way through opening up new avenues of personal understanding.