Science-Based Interviewing

🧠 Cognitive Interviewing – Master memory-enhancing techniques to elicit detailed, accurate statements from witnesses, victims, and subjects.

🎭 Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) – Discover how to strategically present evidence to make accurate and defensible veracity judgments (no pseudoscience) and uncover critical case details without contamination.

🛑 NO Confession Drop – Worried that ethical methods won’t get results? Science-Based Interviewing (SBI) delivers more confessions—and more reliable ones—according to leading research.

🎤 Active Listening & Rapport Building – Develop core communication skills that build trust, cooperation, and information flow in any interview scenario.

🕵️ Questioning Strategies – Formulate effective and memory compatable questions, funnel questioning, and open-ended techniques to elicit more accurate narratives with more case relevant information.

⚖️ Counter-Interrogation Strategies – Understand resistance tactics used by subjects and how to overcome barriers to information gathering.

♞ Red Teaming & Bias Mitigation – Improve critical thinking by challenging assumptions, avoiding confirmation bias, and enhancing case and fact analysis.

🏛️ Ethical & Legal Considerations – Ensure interviews meet legal standards, avoid coercion, and align with best practices for admissible evidence.

🚔 Real-World Application & Practical Exercises – Engage in scenario-based training to build confidence and competence in high-stakes interviews and interrogations.

🚨 Red Flags in Interviews – Identify warning signs of false confessions, including inconsistencies, passive agreement, and parroting investigators' words.

✅ Safeguarding Against False Information – Implement science-based interviewing to reduce contamination risks, improve reliability, and prevent investigative failures (stuff that gets your case on prominent streaming service specials).

💡 Lessons from Research – Apply peer-reviewed studies to refine interview & interrogation techniques, ensuring ethical, effective, and legally sound interviews.

🛋️ Interview Room Design / Interview Space – Understand how environmental psychology impacts rapport, comfort, and information disclosure.

🧙‍♂️ Ditch the Hocus Pocus – Move beyond pseudoscientific tactics like eye-accessing cues and "human lie detector" tricks—these methods don’t work and risk contaminating your interviews. No one testifies to this junk!

🏛️ Minimize Institutional & Reputational Risk – Using science-based interviewing protects your agency or organization from false confessions, legal challenges, and public fallout, ensuring ethical practices and defensible outcomes every time.

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