Objectives
- Establish a behavioral baseline before reading anything into behavior
- Treat change from baseline as a question, not an answer
Lesson
Behavior means nothing in isolation. A person who touches their face, pauses, or shifts in a chair may be nervous, cold, tired, thinking, or built that way. The unit of analysis is not the behavior; it is the change from that person’s own baseline.
Chase Hughes, whose behavior-profiling work is taught through NCI University, states the constraint plainly in Six-Minute X-Ray: you cannot tell that someone is lying from behavior alone. What behavior can indicate is stress, interest, or a shift in state, which then tells you where to ask a better question.
This maps directly onto Phainomenon™. The observation is the change. The cause of the change is a hypothesis, and usually several are live at once.
Terms
Faculty
Chase Hughes
NCI University (Neuro-Cognitive Intelligence)
Behavior profiling, elicitation, influence recognition
Taught here as method only. Marketing claims about rank or status, personal opinions, and any claim the published research does not support are left out. The deception-detection material is paired with the meta-analytic evidence on accuracy.
Bond and DePaulo (2006) found people average 54% correct lie-truth judgments. Behavior indicates stress or a change of state; it does not establish truth.