People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast

Zachary Elwood

info@readingpokertells.com

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Booking Overview

This interview-led behavior and psychology podcast explores how people think, communicate, and make decisions, regularly featuring specialized researchers, law-enforcement practitioners, polygraph examiners, and other professionals with firsthand expertise. Credible pitches include behavioral scientists, criminal-interviewing specialists, deception researchers, investigative professionals, and experts with substantial field experience; booking difficulty is medium because guests need specific, demonstrable expertise but need not be major public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 215

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.2/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 10.6k subscribers

Contact Information

info@readingpokertells.com

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Host

Zachary Elwood - Author of the Reading Poker Tells trilogy who studies and writes about human behavior, behavioral analysis, and the limits of interpreting interpersonal signals.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Researchers, trainers, law-enforcement professionals, investigative specialists, and other practitioners with substantial firsthand experience in behavior analysis, interviewing, interrogation, deception assessment, or related fields.
Required Achievements:  
Extensive professional field experience, Research or training leadership, Specialized expertise demonstrated through substantial casework or examinations

Recent Guest Discussions

David Goldberg - Polygraph Accuracy, Examination Methods, Deception Assessment, Nervousness, And The Use Of Polygraphs In Investigations And Hiring.

Christian Cory - Science-based Interviewing, Strategic Evidence Disclosure, Interrogation Practices, Evidence Use, And Law-enforcement Training.

Maria Hartwig - Science-based Interviewing, Strategic Evidence Disclosure, Interrogation Methods, Micro-expressions, And Problems With Exaggerated Lie-detection Claims.

Recent Topics

Psychology, Interrogation, Deception, Poker

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
People Who Read People: A Behavior and Psychology Podcast
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Behaviorally, poker and interrogations are very different

July 10, 2026

Zach Elwood, author of influential books on poker tells and host of the People Who Read People podcast, joins The Deductionist podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about what we can and can't learn from human behavior. Drawing on his years studying poker tells and consulting for high-stakes players, Zach explains why reading behavior in structured games like poker is fundamentally different from reading people in real-world situations like interrogations, negotiations, or everyday conversa...

Understanding defenses of the polygraph, with David Goldberg

July 01, 2026

Polygraphs are a controversial tool in criminal investigations: critics argue they're too unreliable to trust, while proponents say that, even if they’re not perfect, they nonetheless can play a valuable role in helping uncover the truth. I talk with veteran polygraph examiner David Goldberg (executiveprotectiongrp.com), who has conducted more than 20,000 examinations over a 30-year career and who believes that, in the hands of a highly skilled examiner, polygraphs are far more accurate than ...

The push for science-based interrogation approaches, with Maria Hartwig and Christian Cory

June 20, 2026

In real or fictional criminal interrogation scenes, you've probably seen the approach where police barge in and confront the suspect with the evidence, trying to get them to crack and give a confession. In this talk, Maria Hartwig and Christian Cory explain why that doesn’t work well, and why a strategic use of evidence (SUE) approach, involving planning out the reveal of evidence, gets much better results. Maria is a well known researcher and trainer of criminal interviewing, and Christian i...

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