Interview and Interrogation Articles

Evidence-Based Interview & Interrogation Insights by Stan B. Walters

The Interview Room Archive banner showing a two-way mirror view of an investigative interview room with table and case file as a female investigator observes, representing classic investigative interviewing articles by Stan B. Walters.

Mislabeling Common Stress as Deception: The Error of Biased Analysis

Behavioral changes may identify pressure points, stress, topic sensitivity, or areas needing verification, but they do not prove deception. When common stress is mislabeled as deception, the interview can begin to feed its own assumptions — and those assumptions can follow the case into the report, the investigation, and eventually the courtroom.

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