Investigative interviews are essential to intelligence collection. However, eliciting information
from subjects is challenging when they are not motivated to cooperate. Psychological …

Research on implicit cognition has found that activating mental concepts can lead people to
behave in ways that are consistent with the primed concept. In a pilot study we tested the …

Research on embodied cognition and priming show that human behavior is influenced
nonconsciously by the environment in metaphoric ways. Previous research has shown that …

Recent findings suggest that priming may be useful for facilitating disclosure in investigative
interviews; however, the effects of priming on behavioral outcomes have been mixed. The …

An emerging body of research in human intelligence interviewing suggests that subtle
influence tactics, such as priming, could be used to increase informants' disclosure of …

This study examined the joint influence of helpfulness priming and a helpfulness‐focused
interpersonal approach on information disclosure in an intelligence interview. We based the …

This study investigated the influence of helpfulness priming on information disclosure.
Participants (N= 115) assumed the role of an informant with information about an impending …

Interviewing and interrogation practice has attracted significant attention in the last decades.
While much of this research focuses on the effects of particular interrogation techniques, our …

Eliciting information from semicooperative sources presents a major challenge in
investigative and intelligence settings. This research examines the role of the human need …

Rapport-based approaches have become a central tenet of investigative interviewing with
suspects and sources. Here we explored the utility of using rapport-building tactics (ie, self …