Second Clip: Deceptive All The Way
He looks away for just about the entire duration of his answers, he is biting his lower lip while the question is being asked, and he is squinting and making odd expressions with his face.

After watching the clips with sound, I would say I still stand by my opinions. In the first clip, he is talking about his own steroid use, which would be easy for him to talk about without any problem. The first part of the clip could have been near the beginning of the interview and he was just nervous.

The second clip has him talking about injecting other players with steroids, in this case Mark (McGuire I assume). He seems to contradict things that he wrote in his own book (he says 2 times, but the book says often, which Mike Wallace is quick to point out is more than 2 times).

Well, time for me to click on the link and see how I did!

Not that I’m defending Jose, I for one think he’s the scum of the earth and I didn’t like him before all of the steroid talk, but he may of been uncomfortable in the second clip not because he was lying, but because he seemed unsure of himself. He had to recollect and think back several years. It could give the us the notion that he’s lying because we are scrutinizing him. There’s times when I forgot parts of memories and may have seemed as if I were lying if I were to be under the microscope.

It would be interesting to get a professional card player’s perspective of Canseco. Card players probably have the best trained/untrained eye. What I mean is they do not have formal training as a trained expert would but they could probably identify the quirks better than any other untrained person.

Before I read this article I really didn’t conciously read people’s faces, but from now on, It will give me a new perspective. Thanks for the insight Mike.

I’ll point them both to these clips and see what they think.

In the first clip I can’t get away from Jose’s lips in the first few moments. They seem tense. Tense to the point it forces him to smile. I’ve watched the clip three times and I can stop thinking about what this means.

In the second clip you get the same facial expression, but even at a more extreme level. I don’t know what John Gottman would say, but I’d be interested to hear his opinion.

At first I thought that he was being a bit deceptive in the first clip, until I saw the second, which changed my mind.

In the second he’s in the hot seat for sure and does not look comfortable, the lip biting (or whatever that was) and some other gestures just looked like […processing…accessing b.s. files…]…

The sound kind of confirmed this for me.

Okay, off to read the analysis and conclusions…

From now on you and I are doing our business on the phone to avoid you making some silly determination that just isn’t accurate :-)

Do you have an obligation having observed one of these involuntary behaviors to tell me that you saw it and you don’t believe me so I can say, “actually I had an itch”?

(Editor’s Note: Again, I’m not a trained professional here so I’m just speculating. I’m not jumping to any conclusions that I’d bet money on. However, although you are obviously correct about pathological liars, pathological liars only account for a tiny percentage of the population. Is Canseco a pathological liar? Maybe. Are the odds heavily against it? Yes. I’ve gotta go with my instincts on this one, and those instincts say he’s lying in the second clip.)

With the first one: I initially thought he was being deceitful because of his smirks, but during the last 30 seconds or so of the clip, I changed my mind. He appeared to be answering whatever the question was quickly, didn’t look like he had to concentrate too hard to “construct” an answer, i.e. he was just speaking off the cuff about something and not putting any deeper thought behind it.

With the second clip: He looks like he’s lying the entire time. Little to no eye contact with the 60 Minutes guy, lots of pained-looking facial expressions. Lots of blinking.

After listening to the sound on both: I stick with what I initially thought, though if I’d been listening to the sound I never would have thought he was deceiving in the first one, since it turns out he was smirking because of the whole “where do you inject it” thing.

After reading your analysis, I see we both viewed it very similarly. I’m no expert either, but I do agree that people do have instincts about this sort of thing. I hadn’t noticed the distinct expression at 1:16 in the first one, but you’re right, it’s the only time he makes it, and yet it appears a lot in the second clip (when Mike Wallace is basically pointing out discrepancies anyway).

The first clip: I thought he was being truthful. He made constant eye contact, and looked nervous (which could be misconstrued as discomfort due to deception). He swallowed a lot, but tied the swallowing into general expressions, I found. They were too large for him to be trying to “hide” them in an attempt to deceive.

The second clip: He was definitely lying, in my opinion. The one thing I noticed almost immediately was that on more than one occasion, his eyes moved drastically towards the left — which means they’re accessing the right side of the brain, and are likely being “creative” with the truth. He also had a lot more animation in his face; brief wrinkles, and he kept sucking his lips in his mouth. He didn’t do that once in the first interview.

What a great experiment; now I’m going to have to get that book. ;)

He seemed to be lying at first, but then truthful in the first clip.

The second clip was all b.s.

With the sound on:

He actually seemed totally truthful in the first clip and still seemed like he was lying his ass off in the second.