by admin | Mar 1, 2017 | Interviewing and Interrogation
Our memories are a large part of what makes us who we are. That’s why on long-running soap operas, when the writers run out of fresh ideas for a character, they give them amnesia and fill their head with new ideas. While most of those depictions are hyperbole, the...
by admin | Feb 27, 2017 | Interviewing and Interrogation
When your life is flashing before your eyes or you are hiding in a closet hearing gunshots and screams, how much will you remember? The cacophony of sound makes it hard to distinguish what is happening. You want to contact your loved ones, and maybe you whisper into...
by admin | Feb 20, 2017 | Interviewing and Interrogation
When I see you, I also see myself in you. I hear you because you and I connect on some level, whether through words or body language. This is the beginning of falling in love, developing empathy for another person, building a neighborly relationship, or connecting...
by admin | Feb 13, 2017 | Interviewing and Interrogation
In 1967, an American soldier was shot down from the sky, suffered multiple injuries, and became a POW for five years. He was brutally tortured during that time, and while he made a confession and provided limited information, he never gave the North Vietnamese any...
by admin | Jan 11, 2017 | Interviewing and Interrogation
In the early 1970’s, young men who sometimes got in trouble with the law would mention with horror…the phonebook. The city I lived in had a three-inch phonebook. Rumor was, some cops used it as a cushion to dissipate the energy from a baton blow over a larger area....
by admin | Jan 4, 2017 | Interviewing and Interrogation
I consider myself to be pretty good at catching lies. But maybe my self-perception is distorted because even though I spent years working as an investigator, anyone can be fooled by a good liar. In fact, a study by researchers Bond and DePaulo at Texas Christian...
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