Vanessa Van Edwards breaks down danger zone cues: nonverbal, verbal, and vocal signals that leak guilt, deception, and negative intentions. These signals are hard to fake or suppress. She teaches them so you can spot them in others and use social influence responsibly.
It is my biggest fear with this book that people do not have the right intentions. And my hope is that we can actually use these powers for good and not evil. There are certain cues that we cannot control. And if you have bad intentions, they will leak. So I call these danger zone cues. So in the book I talk about there's four different types of cues. There's highly warm, nonverbal, verbal and vocal. So these are things that make you highly warm, highly trustworthy, highly likable. There's highly competent cues, verbal, nonverbal and vocal. And then there's charismatic. The ones are just knocking out of the park. Like they're just great. And the last one is danger zone cues. Danger zone cues are the cues that get us into trouble. They're the cues that liars use. They're the way that we leak guilt and shame. Actually, shame is not a bad thing. It's only when you have guilt that you've done something wrong. So in the danger zone, it is very hard to inhibit those cues. So I teach them because I want people to be able to spot them.
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