This book covers an interesting array of techniques including reading body language, personality typing, birth order, and similar characteristics which influence jury member prejudices. A claim, which the author’s support, is 80% of the trial outcome is determined by the jury selection. Accused of a crime? Managers, secretaries, and teachers are the kinds of people you don’t want on your jury then. Filed a suit against the government? You want the unemployed on the jury, and engineers off the jury! It is by no means a professional’s handbook – the target audience is the layperson. So to me there wasn’t as much detail as I would have liked.
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Let Me See Your Body Talk
Similar to Judge the Jury, the topic is body language. This time the angle is from the perspective of personal relationships. The most interesting section was the concept of dominant communication styles – auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. If you are visual, you want to see information as a graph, picture, or animated simulation. The dominant auditory will complain no one listens. (At least at MFC-Dallas. I give an AVK quiz in one of my classes. Auditory is the rarest form, and I have only encountered one dominant auditory in about 80 students.) The target audience is the layperson, so there isn’t as much detail as I would have liked in some sections.