Behavioral Profiling Academy

Discover the fascinating correlation between the brain, emotions, and the body! The One-Semester Behavioral Profiling Academy is a course ensuring that you will attain comprehensive skills in emotion and behavioral analysis, that is, the analysis of human behavior. The programme comprises 12 thematic modules and is delivered online, ending in a final test that verifies the obtained knowledge.

It is the only behavioral profiling course available in Polish created by scientists and practitioners from uniformed services. The course content was developed in cooperation with the International Association of Behavior Detection & Analysis.

Does behavior reflect personality?

Is it possible to profile someone based on the looks? Does observing people’s nonverbal behavior, the way their talk, dress or communicate, is an effective profiling tool? In most cases, the answer is yes; for this reason, it is worth to learn what are the patterns that dictate our repeatable behavior.

Profiling methods (mainly criminal profiling) have been developed by the FBI, starting from the criminal profiling in the 1970s.

Airports where profilers were employed no acts of terrorist attacks have taken place

At present, profiling has gained new allies in the form of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Analysing generally available data in the social media, algorithms can effortlessly crate our personality profiles and combine our appearance with our character traits.

How do others view you?

Based on the looks and nonverbal cues, we immediately decide whether a given person is trustworthy, likeable, competent or intelligent.

These are key straits in building relationships, in negotiating or providing customer service. At present, most meetings take place online in the form of video calls. Unable to see the entire person on the other side of the camera, we focus mainly on our interlocutor’s face and voice. In this situation, we rely to a much greater degree on the first impression and small nonverbal messages.

We can tell right away – Can I trust him? Is this a person I want to work with? Is this what a competent individual looks like?

Since research shows how this immediate subconscious assessment takes place, it is worth to learn the patters that dictate our conduct.

During the training we will analyse together how society perceives you using a technology for measuring facial expressions.

Owing to practical group exercises you will learn what to change in your body language.

The Structure of the Academy

ONLINE MODE

  • Online meetings once a week for 2-4 hours

  • Sessions are recorded, replay available later on
  • Workshop activities in small groups up to 20 people
  • Delivered by practitioners
  • Duration: 1 semester

12 MODULES

  • Practical knowledge divided into thematic modules
  • In lieu of a six-month-long face-to-face training course
  • Allows the participant to systematically revise and train the attained skills
  • Provides the participant with a comprehensive knowledge of behavioral profiling

CERTYFICATION

  • 80% attendance required
  • Self-study in-between the training sessions
  • Conducted analyses of photographs and videos
  • Final test

Module 1
Behavioral profiling

  • Body language
  • Observation training
  • Determining the norm
  • Principles for interpreting body language
  • Decoding gestures and body movements in practice

Module 2
Psychology of emotions

  • Neurobiology and psychophysiology
  • Effect of emotions on the body
  • Social behaviors
  • Role of culture and upbringing

Module 3
Psychology of appearance

  • Psychology of the first impression
  • Cognitive bias in assessing other people
  • Prejudice and stereotypes
  • Physical appearance analysis

Module 4
Measuring emotions / Technologies

  • Biometric technologies
  • Biosensor technologies
  • Current use of technologies
  • The future of real-time emotion measurement

Module 5 
Body language

  • Observation training
  • Determining the norm
  • Principles for interpreting body language
  • Decoding gestures and body movements in practice

Module 6
Facial expressions

  • How mimic muscles of the face operate
  • Basic and complex emotions
  • Practicing basic and complex expressions
  • Practicing identification of microexpressions

Module 7 
Emotional map of the face

  • Effect of emotions on facial appearance
  • Effect of upbringing on facial expressions
  • Facial asymmetry formation 
  • Interpreting mimic wrinkles

Module 8
Typology of liars

  • Introduction to the psychology of lying
  • Basic types of liars
  • Identifying a lying strategy according to a given type
  • Analysing body language, voice, and linguistics depending on a given type

Module 9
Statement credibility analysis

  • Introduction to linguistic analysis of a text
  • Effect of emotions on written and oral statements
  • Linguistic changes in deceptive statements
  • Unconscious leakage in oral and written statements

Module 10
Antisocial personalities

  • Antisocial personality disorder
  • Identifying psychopathy
  • Identifying sociopathy
  • Identifying narcissism

Module 11
Behavior of victims and manipulation

  • Upbringing and susceptibility to becoming a victim
  • Trauma repetition compulsion
  • Behavior of a potential victim
  • Forms of manipulation used against a victim

Module 12
Behavioral analysis in lie detection

  • Case studies – based on the attained knowledge
  • Presentations made by the participants

Moduł 13
Case studies – based on the attained knowledge

Presentations made by the participants

Enrol today!

THE ACADEMY COURSES BEGIN IN SEPTEMBER 2021

END OF DECEMBER 2021

PRICE: EURO 2 990 – 4 999 / PERSON