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I got the book Blink thinking it might be related to silent-thought . It turns out that the first use may be in the flushgov.net arena. Under the theory of thin slices apparently a careful observing, recording & analysis of a couple having a conversation can tell whether the couple will remain married or get a divorce. I would like to extend this to politicians (not the divorce part

) but to how they relate to their constituents. At first it might have to be covert gathered from news briefings & public appearances. Later it may come from debates & campaign appearances. Someday it would be interesting to have it become routine & become part of the politician's public profile.

What is going on inside a person's mind is not so secret any more. Techniques such as SPAFF (an acronym for the words specific affect) & the field of NLP can make more public than people would like to believe.

Since this stuff is psychology & derived from family counseling it may take some time to translate it into the political arena. Here is another more detailed PDF on the subject. google spaff code will get a lot more. I would also like to compare the method with what can be derived from NLP.

In another 4123 I gave a hint about what we need at the highest level as a politician:

source: ... M 2006-08-10 09:36:38 4123
BTW, what gets a person out of the loop is consciousness & consciousness of the loop. On the backend of the will to get out of the loop is the desire to experience a higher state of being & the inspiration to do so for some personal or cosmic benefit. This experience doesn't have the juice that righteous incitement & being incited to hatred have, but others have paved the way such as Mahatma Ghandi & Martin Luther King, Jr. . What the world needs NOW is someone who can speak with the authority & power of these men to this modern world of trouble. I don't know of anyone at this time who can do it.

... NOW I think I am closing in on a test. The process is yet to be invented in how to get there.

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Mark de LA says
Two questions:

Can a specific SPAFF result be faked?
Will this be used by campaign operatives & coaches?

Seth says

so are you proposing honest brokers who analize a politicians speaches and other public behaviors and provide a narrative of what they are actually thinking ?

Seth says

M 2006-08-13 13:09:33 4150

Two questions:

Can a specific SPAFF result be faked?
Will this be used by campaign operatives & coaches?

Me thinks the answers to those questions are, yes and yes.

Mark de LA says

seth 2006-08-14 05:03:20 4150

M 2006-08-13 13:09:33 4150

Two questions:

Can a specific SPAFF result be faked?
Will this be used by campaign operatives & coaches?

Me thinks the answers to those questions are, yes and yes.

Well, I would suspect number 2 would be yes. Number 1 is like faking a lie-detector test.

Mark de LA says
Here is a bookmark for further study under nonverbal studies. uri http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/

Mark de LA says

M 2006-08-14 08:39:36 4150

seth 2006-08-14 05:01:40 4150

so are you proposing honest brokers who analyze a politicians speeches and other public behaviors and provide a narrative of what they are actually thinking ?

Not honest brokers, but trained psychologists. The part about SPAFF coding that is fascinating is that someone has been able to take the data & code all the emotions going through the participants in the study. The participants were wired up like a lie detector. I would be surprised if a politician would ever willingly go for that! This is an area of research how to do the analysis from a distance without the wiring up.

Furthermore NLP says that the eye movements, changes in skin coloration, posture & other things are clues to what's going on. You may not be able to tell what the content is, but how the person reacts to the content - i.e. what emotions are going on about the content.

Mark de LA says

M 2006-08-15 16:13:28 4150

Under the heading of stuff going in the right direction: see this article.

The part where YouTube is hosting videos of what some of the candidates are saying.

Mark de LA says
A quick diversion here to the thought of emoteys. I find that the emoteys here are an interesting property to give to communications - an indicator, context or something - i'm not sure yet exactly what it is probably similar to the coding of the SPAFF experiment. I would like someday to study an expansion of the emoteys such that they are useful to a larger study of SPAFF

kind. Basically, I am self-coding a communication for emotions. Some times I find I have an emotion that is not expressed in the current set. I suppose I could record the lack of the appropriate emotey & tag the item (too bad don't have tags on comments).

Mark de LA says
Here is something else that feeds into the mix. See Brain Scans May Unlock Candidates' Appeal - here. Some people might balk at being pigeon-holed as to their political beliefs. The challenge here is that nobody runs anymore on their beliefs. It's mostly RWG + stump speeches tuned to give the demographic audience what they want in the way of buzzwords & taxpayer $$.

Mark de LA says

More from the author of blink (his blog) & comments on dog behaviorist Cesar Millan (the dog whisperer) 's methodology: this & this . Since I think Cesar is onto something good with his training of problem dogs these articles & his blog are fascinating.

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wow gold says

Good post,This was exactly what I needed to read today! I am sure this has relevance to many of us out there.

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Er, are you having trouble posting something?

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