Investigative interviewing is moving away from confession-driven legacy methods and toward information-gathering approaches grounded in research. Science-Based Interviewing prioritizes accurate information, rapport, open-ended questioning, strategic evidence use, and hypothesis testing while reducing the risks created by guilt presumptions, psychological manipulation, pseudoscience, and false confessions.

Workplace investigation interviews built on behavioral lie detection create legal liability. Learn why junk science fails at depositions, why step-by-step systems break down, and what defensible investigations actually require.