ABSTRACT
The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG) has commissioned research on the Cognitive Interview, Observing Rapport-Based Interpersonal Techniques (ORBIT), the Cylinder Model of sensemaking, and cognition-based methods of detecting deception (including Strategic Use of Evidence [SUE]). The Cognitive Interview reflects substantive theoretical and laboratory research in cognitive psychology; ORBIT incorporates components of Motivational Interviewing; the Cylinder Model integrates theory and research in communication and crisis negotiations, and methods of detecting deception are based on principles of cognition and perspective-taking. Although developed separately and based on disparate fields of inquiry, experience with the application of these methods has revealed areas of similarity and complementarity that are both theoretically interesting and practically useful. Describing a coherent whole may offer a theory of interrogation, which currently is lacking.
