Working nights during college as a bouncer, Mark Frank discovered he could learn a lot about people by observing their facial expressions and body language. Now, as a professor of communication at the University at Buffalo, he’s an internationally recognized expert on nonverbal communication who advises the FBI and CIA on interviewing techniques and whose research helped inspire the TV crime drama “Lie to Me.” In this episode of Driven to Discover, Frank talks to host Tom Dinki about the involuntary gestures and expressions that give our real feelings away, the universally accepted yet completely bogus connection between eye contact and the truth, and why building rapport is the best way to snag a criminal.

Credits: 
 
Host: Tom Dinki
Guest: Mark Frank
Writer: Laura Silverman
Production and editing by UB Video Production Group 

Coming next month: One of the nation’s most celebrated French horn players, Jeff Scott has composed for and/or performed with everyone from the Detroit Symphony to Wynton Marsalis to Barbra Streisand. In this episode, Scott talks to host Cory Nealon about his life and work, including his 2024 Grammy-winning composition, “Passion for Bach and Coltrane.”