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**jmm99** · 01-09-2010

that used in polygraph exams ? - as briefly explained here.

Hey Slap, I'm chasing you around today.

**slapout9** · 01-10-2010

Originally Posted by jmm99

that used in polygraph exams ? - as briefly explained here.

Hey Slap, I'm chasing you around today.

That is about the right idea but you don't need a polygraph to do it. You start out by asking rather innocent questions that you know the answer to and then move to more incriminating questions (tension) and then back to easier questions and then back to more incriminating questions. You are establishing a behavior baseline on how the subject acts when honest so you can compare it to when he is dishonest. Kind of a rollercoaster to the truth.
This guy talks about it somewhat.
http://focusedinterview.com/

Better link to the manual itself....but this may be an old manual.
http://www.mindcontrol101.com/pdfs/FIsystem.pdf

**jmm99** · 01-10-2010

in the Focused Interview Manual. Read the whole thing - quick read.

His discussions of various Fight, Flight, Freeze responses has some parallels in Dave Grossman's On Combat and On Killing. This method seems well suited to an introverted, intuitive type who drags in everything from the environment that seems material.

Regards

Mike

**Jedburgh** · 01-10-2010

Originally Posted by slapout9

....You start out by asking rather innocent questions that you know the answer to and then move to more incriminating questions (tension) and then back to easier questions and then back to more incriminating questions. You are establishing a behavior baseline on how the subject acts when honest so you can compare it to when he is dishonest. Kind of a rollercoaster to the truth....

If needed for training, there are some good examples of that precise method on the current TV show The Mentalist that can be clipped out. Of course its use is dramatized for television, with the main LE characters asking the basic initial interview questions then the title character pouncing in with the incriminating questions to observe reaction behavior. The true intent of the method is for the single interviewer.