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Pursuing Truth: Expert Strategies for Detecting Lies, Half-Truths and Other Deceptions

By Dr. Ken Manges, Ph.D. | Forensic Psychologist This post will provide brief outlines of basic techniques for detecting lies and determining whether a person is truthful, or less than truthful. Detecting lies and how to distinguish this from a person being anxious Myths about lying Body Language to Observe in Detecting LiesEyes: Arms/hands/legs Facial … Read more

The Cost of Raising a Special Needs Child

When you think of disability cases, you may think of adults who have been hurt at work or in an auto accident. But when a child is permanently injured in an accident, this injury may affect the child’s ability to work and earn money when they become an adult. Certainly, the cost of long-term medical … Read more

How You Say It Is as Important as What You Say

“The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven’t thought of yet.” –Ann Landers Regardless of the state in which they are testifying, New York, Texas, Illinois, Florida or Ohio to name a few, witnesses, even experts, are subjected to the same ohs and “ahs,” “ums” and “I don’t knows.” However, … Read more

The Aging Brain: From Birth to Alzheimer’s

Presentations By Dr. Ken Manges, Ph.D. | Forensic Psychologist We are born with 28 million neurons and we accidentally kill many of them off by stress, alcohol, and misuse of our time and energy. Dr. Manges, who knows how to examine the brain, tells it all. How do you reverse an aging brain? He will … Read more

What Trial Lawyers Need to Know for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Litigation

By Dr. Ken Manges, Ph.D. | Forensic Psychologist A Traumatic Brain Injury, also known as a TBI or intracranial injury, is generally the result of a sudden, violent blow or jolt to the head. This jolt to the head launches the brain into a collision course with the inside of the skull, resulting in possible … Read more

10 Suggestions for Overcoming a Season of Sorrows

By Dr. Ken Manges, Ph.D. | Forensic Psychologist Abusive political rhetoric, D.C. shooting and wounding of a congressman, a truck attack and deaths in Barcelona, Charlottesville and NYC, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma & Maria, sexual assaults by Weinstein and multiple others, admissions by survivors @#metoo, an ambush in Niger, shootings in New York City, Sutherland Springs, … Read more

The Benefits of Teamwork

By Dr. Ken Manges, Ph.D. | Forensic Psychologist A new article in the American Psychology Association periodical, Monitor, shows the science is clear, teams work because of their Attitudes, Behaviors and Cognitive states of togetherness. Dr. Suzanne Bell wrote, “If a team is going to work it needs to bring together diverse thinkers who bring … Read more

The Impact of Divorce

By Dr. Ken Manges, Ph.D. | Forensic Psychologist My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. -Jack Benny The 50 percent statistic of all marriages ending in divorce is misleading, if not wrong. For … Read more

Top ten things to look out for when hiring an expert

By Dr. Ken Manges, Ph.D. | Forensic Psychologist In response to an earlier blog, a colleague (The Expert Institute) forwarded to me a list of their top ten things to look out for when hiring an expert: I find agreement with most of these as noted above although I would refer you to the original … Read more

Traumatic Brain Injury in the Emergency Room

By Dr. Ken Manges, Ph.D. | Forensic Psychologist As a forensic psychologist and wage loss expert I frequently receive referrals that overlap both medical and psychological issues. In a recent matter, a claimant’s life was fortunately saved by emergency room personnel who were able to successfully re-start her heart after a cardiac arrest, in the emergency room! … Read more