Psychology 2032A/B Lecture 3: Interrogations

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

Document Summary

Interrogations can be the difference between getting a confession and letting someone go. The coercive nature of interrogations: history of coercive measures, mid-1900s, whipping suspects to get a confession, 1980s. Stun guns used by nypd to extract confessions: more recently, psychological methods such as trickery and deceit (ex. Lying about evidence: used to try and draw out info or a confession, psychological strategies are in place before the suspect even walks into the room. The reid model of interrogations: the reid model is a common interrogation model. Involved 3 general stages: gathering of evidence, bring in any evidence, physical evidence, etc, conduct a non-accusatorial interview to assess deception (guilt, ex. Bring in suspect, might not accuse them directly but start asking questions and determine if they are being deceiving, are there clues of deception: conduct an accusatorial interrogation to obtain a confession, this stage has 9 steps. Informs the suspect on the evidence that is against them.