I think you're really on to something, Dan.
And I agree with Norman. We have the “one person veto” rule in our group although I know that others favor the “majority rules” concept.
And as Norman also alludes to, psychology research continues to turn up new discoveries about our brain workings and how we interact with one another.
Dan, I think you're nibbling at the edge of another breakthrough in human factors tools, which is tuning up our skills in interpreting non-verbal cues -- in other words going way
beyond the "interview" process.
Joe Navarro
, a leader in the field of non-verbal communication tells us that most non-verbal cues are driven by our subconscious mind -- and most folks don't even realize how or when they are giving off certain “tells”, but yet they are important indications of how people are feeling and what they’re thinking.
To better clarify my point, in his book
What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
Joe mentions a student that attended one of his weekend "Poker Tells" classes. The student later contacted him raving about the usefulness of the information he had learned… but not so much for poker but in his work. The student pointed out that he was a physician and his new non-verbal reading skills were helping him immensely in understanding what topics made patients more nervous and when he may not be getting the entire story. In short, he said it was turning him into a much better doctor.
When you started this topic I started asking myself how I best “tune in” to the status or condition of a fellow ski tourer. After some introspection I have decided that at least some of the “gut feel” I get regarding how a person is doing comes from Joe’s teachings.
