Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fidgeting, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Soft Sell

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

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Lecture 3 - interrogations, confessions and deception detection. Police rely on witnesses, victims and suspects to fill in detains about crimes: who was involved, what happened, where and when did it happen, how and why did it happen. Evidence is often collected through interrogations o. Properly run interrogation can be the difference between a confession and letting someone go. In north america there are two goals of a police interrogation. Gain information that will further the investigations (ex. History of coercive measures: mid 1900s. Stun guns used by the nypd to get confession: more recently. Psychological methods such as trickery and deceit (ex. Involved 3 general stages: gather evidence o o. Construct a non accusatorial interview to asses deception (guilt) Start trying to determine if they are trying to be deceiving. Conduct an accusatorial interrogation to obtain a confession. The third stage involved 9 steps to break down the suspect"s resistance to confessing.