| Introduction | p. ix |
| In The Beginning | p. 1 |
| Primitive Predictions | p. 3 |
| Prediction on the battlefield | |
| Caveman prediction | |
| Foibles of the mind | |
| Maintaining humility with a predictive mind | |
| Ominous behavior at the beginning of life | |
| Recognizing the tells of autism and doing something about it | |
| The case of William and his anxious summer at camp | |
| Biology is not destiny. | |
| Strange Situations: Growing up in a Thin-Sliced World | p. 27 |
| Parks, swings, and observing behavior | |
| How we become attached | |
| Predicting your child's attachment style before she's even born. | |
| Who Are You Anyway? | p. 49 |
| A photographic personality | |
| Is it possible to forecast the cognitive chops of someone you just interviewed? | |
| Seeing goodness in(side) others | |
| Spotting liars, cheaters, and aggressive people | |
| When tells go awry. | |
| The Targets of Our Attraction | p. 69 |
| Gaydar and straightdar | |
| How our minds are actually prediction machines | |
| How We Size Up Others | p. 47 |
| The Genes in All of Us | p. 13 |
| How a forty-five-minute observation of young children predicts reactive physiology years later | |
| To be secure or insecure? | |
| The power of Strange Situations to predict who we are | |
| The science of inferring sexual orientation | |
| The role of society | |
| Is it possible to predict sexual orientation? | |
| Can one conceal sexual orientation? | |
| The tells of sexual orientation | |
| The role of nature and nurture | |
| Love and Lies | p. 83 |
| Seeking partners in a modern age with an old brain | |
| What men's lopsided faces and fancy goods tell as | |
| What women's faces and figures predict | |
| Accentuating our evolutionary signals with a scalpel | |
| Predicting divorce from three minutes of interaction or a photograph | |
| Smile and live long | |
| The student who lied after a bathroom break | |
| Are we good lie detectors? | |
| Did the bank clerk steal the money? | |
| Police officers are (just) people too | |
| The tells of deceit | |
| Truth wizards and Eyes for Lies | |
| Making the Grade: Education, Business, and Politics | p. 127 |
| The Power of Enthusiasm | p. 129 |
| Star teachers and their ways | |
| It only takes six seconds | |
| Dr. Ceci's "Enthusiasin Experiment" | |
| The power of enthusiasm inside the classroom and out | |
| Catching the Cues of the Cash Cow | p. 141 |
| The God-like status of CEOs | |
| Is it possible to predict company profits from a CEO's face? | |
| The neuroscieuce of perception | |
| Are leaders born or made? | |
| Identifying and hiring your next sales superstar | |
| The unnatural state of democracy | |
| Are we really as rational as we think we are when we vote? | |
| Lessons from history: Nixon versus Kennedy, and a twelve-year-old's letter to Lincoln | |
| Predicting elections from a snapshot | |
| Designing the "perfect" candidate | |
| Conclusion: The Importance of Predictive Humility | p. 177 |
| From Dating to Mating | p. 85 |
| Detecting Deception | p. 111 |
| Political Punditry: Any Kid Can Do It | p. 153 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 181 |
| Notes | p. 185 |
| References | p. 221 |
| Credits | p. 255 |
| Index | p. 257 |