Ep. 253 - The Doctor Is In Series - Understanding Human Behavior with Dr. David Matsumoto The Social-Engineer Podcast

Welcome to the Social-Engineer Podcast: The Doctor Is In Series – where we will discuss understandings and developments in the field of psychology.
 
In today’s episode, Chris and Abbie are joined by Dr. David Matsumoto.  Dr. Matsumoto, Director of Humintell, is a world-renowned expert in the fields of emotion, nonverbal behavior, deception, and culture. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1981, double majoring in psychology and Japanese and receiving High Honors in both. He obtained his Masters (1983) and Doctoral (1986) degrees in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University (SFSU) since 1989, and is the Founder and Director of SFSU’s Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory.
 
Dr. Matsumoto is an expert in threat assessment and management, especially in relation to behavioral indicators of operational bad actors. He has conducted the only study to date of the cognitions, emotions, and behaviors of bad actors when they are actively engaged in an act of violence, and he has briefed the results of this work to several government agencies. He has also conducted decades of research on behavioral indicators related to deception about the intent to commit acts of malfeasance in the future, and the behavioral indicators that emerged from this work has been briefed to countless military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies and operators. [April 1, 2024]
 
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - Dr. Abbie Maroño Intro
01:16 - Intro Links
-          Social-Engineer.com - http://www.social-engineer.com/
-          Managed Voice Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/vishing-service/
-          Managed Email Phishing - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/se-phishing-service/
-          Adversarial Simulations - https://www.social-engineer.com/services/social-engineering-penetration-test/
-          Social-Engineer channel on SLACK - https://social-engineering-hq.slack.com/ssb
-          CLUTCH - http://www.pro-rock.com/
-          innocentlivesfoundation.org - http://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/                                
03:29 - Dr. David Matsumoto Intro
05:02 - The Topic of the Day: Emotion & Nonverbal Communication
05:29 - The Origins of Human Emotion
09:46 - Olympic-Level Study
17:00 - Strike a Pose
19:30 - Behavioral Indicators
25:01 - Emotional Buffer
25:42 - Data Sourcing
31:26 - In Context
32:51 - The Anonymous Factor
35:37 - The Human Factor
37:15 - New Book
37:58 - A Writers Obligation
41:46 - On A Mission
45:11 - Find Dr. Matsumoto Online
-          Website: www.humintell.com
-          X/Twitter: @davidmatsumoto
-          LinkedIn: in/davidmatsumoto
-          YouTube: @Humintell
46:00 - Wrap Up
46:29 - Next Month: Overworking
46:59 - Outro                                                                    
-          www.social-engineer.com
-          www.innocentlivesfoundation.org
 
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