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This sort of thing is called "cold reading".[1] It's well understood, and it's taught to cops and salespeople. First-line people in the hospitality industry (restaurant greeters, hotel desk clerks) tend to have skills in that area.

There's "Manwatching" (1979) by Desmond Morris, a more serious study of this.[2] Good pictures and drawings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading

[2] https://archive.org/details/manwatchingfield0000morr/page/n5...






Lie detectors are also well-understood and taught to cops. K-9 probably cause manufacturer units are well-understood and also taught to cops. In fact, the list of things that are totally bogus and well-understood and taught to cops since the era of Bill Clinton is so long that perhaps it should be well-understood and taught to cops too.



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