Analyzing Emotional Responses in Interviews

Have you ever eaten any human flesh?

No.

Not a question I thought I'd ever ask him.

Not a question I'd ever thought I'd have to answer, by the way. But no, never.

What do you feel-

Pause.

Did you see what that next question was?

Hm, no.

Can you go back one frame in text, just so we can see what Piers says?

No, never.

Pause. What do you fear?

What do you...

Oh, no. What am I missing?

What does-

What do you feel?

... feel?

Ah.

Really skilled journalists, really skilled in-

skilled intelligence officers and

interrogators understand something known as the feeling question,

the feeling question. Because a feeling question

immediately elicits an emotion.

If you don't get an emotional response to a feeling question, you know the person

is lying.

Oh.

You know that they're lying. You don't know what the emotion is-

Right

... right? But a feeling question is asking the person to think of

something that makes them have an emotion.

He just asked a question that says, "What do you feel?" And we'll hit

play-

Oh

... and watch the rest of this question, and then watch Armie's response.

Oh.

Tell me if you see an emotion at all. Go ahead and hit play.

Do you feel that a large swathe of the public just think

Armie Hammer is a cannibal?

If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

No emotion. He asked a feeling question.

He said, "How do you feel that a large swath of Americans think

that you're a

cannibal?" No emotion at all. No, no, no sense in his face, no

sense in his demeanor, no sense in his hand gesticulations,

no sense in his tone.

That is hugely indicative of a lie, a

fabrication, something that is not truly how you

feel.