Try To See Things My Way? The Role Of Perspective Taking In Eliciting Information
Lorraine Hope and Wayne Thomas on assessing another’s perspective to understand how and when we can effectively influence them A terrorist plotting a mass…
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Safe Space: Does Context Affect Self-Disclosure in Security Vetting?
Safe Space: Does Context Affect Self-Disclosure in Security Vetting? by CREST Doctoral Researcher Christina Winters. Winters’ poster gives an overview of her research on…
Eliciting Information and Cues to Deceit
Eliciting Information and Cues to Deceit by CREST Researchers Aldert Vrij, Lorraine Hope, Feni Kontogianni, Becky Milne, Zarah Vernham, and Samantha Mann. This poster…
How unexpected questions can catch out liars
Aldert Vrij and Matthew Francis write about how an interview technique – asking unexpected questions – can help catch out liars. One of the…
CREST Guide: The unexpected questions technique
This CREST Guide is an overview of an interviewing tactic – the unexpected questions technique – which aims to improve the recall of accurate…
Masterclass in eliciting intelligence information
CREST Researchers delivered a masterclass on intelligence interviewing to over fifty practitioners from European government, police and military organisations. The day covered new techniques…
Eliciting Information Online
…the internet often provides an ideal environment for those with malevolent intent to elicit information from victims. Emma Williams and Adam Joinson research scamming…
Eliciting information the friendly way: Conceptualising the Scharff Technique
Did your plane carry bombs in it or didn’t it? You cannot ask that direct question, he will never answer it. But in the…
New Magazine for research on security threats
Launch of CREST Security Review This month CREST launches CREST Security Review, a quarterly magazine which provides a gateway to the very best knowledge…
Let them be heard: Enabling communication and recall of forensic interviewees
This is CREST researcher Becky Milne’s professorial lecture at Portsmouth University. Becky draws on her work researching investigative interviewing and training police around the…
Memory at the sharp end: the psychology of eliciting information
This is the professorial inaugural lecture by CREST researcher Lorraine Hope, Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at Portsmouth University. Lorraine presents the results of…