ABSTRACT
These four negative reactions are self-perpetuating and self-sustaining. It is the person’s internal cognitive and emotional responses to external stimuli that triggers them. If the interrogator permits the entire negative process to continue unabated, his goal of moving the subject toward admission or confession will be sidetracked and unproductive. The interrogator must be able to quickly and accurately identify the subject’s specific response to each point of the interview and plan his subsequent interrogation attack. This requires the interrogator to have a deep understanding of each stress-response state, including the characteristics of each response, how it is defined, its goals, the results the subject hopes to attain by using the response, and how the interrogator should respond in order to control each response and facilitate the subject’s movement toward acceptance and confession.
