Interrogation practices in the United States have been roundly criticized both for their
accusatorial ethos, at times leading to false confessions by the innocent, and for a history of …

Police investigators, immigration officials, and other investigative interviewers often interview
individuals from different cultural backgrounds about potentially traumatising events. Much …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of a rapport-based
approach to interviewing that includes productive questioning skills, conversational rapport …

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 …

While there has been considerable research on investigative interviews with children over
the last three decades, there remains much to learn. The aim of this paper was to identify …

As accusatorial approaches to interrogation in the United States have increasingly come
under scrutiny, interest in science-based methods of interviewing and interrogation has …

As interviewees typically say less when an interpreter is present, we examined whether this
was caused by interpreters not interpreting everything interviewees says or by interviewees …

We examined whether speech‐related differences between truth tellers and liars are more
profound when answering unexpected questions than when answering expected questions …

Police interviewers in English-speaking countries increasingly conduct interviews via an
interpreter with suspects and witnesses who do not speak English. Oral communication in …

Interrogation practices in the United States have long relied on customary knowledge—
experiential-based knowledge uninformed by behavioral science (Hartwig, Meissner, & …