Detecting lies and getting confessions on the example of service interview

Abstract

The article clarifies the concept of in-house interview as an interview of employees or job candidates, organized by the security service of a private company, identifies the types of in-house interview, clarifies the concept of confession. The two-stage model of inquest and some indicators of lying, which are used by the authors during the in-house interview, are described. The indicators correlating with lying in the course of service interview - the latent verbal aggression, lying strategies, presence of textual bridges and lacunas, separate elements of mimic and kinetic behavior are offered. The two-step model of Reed’s inquest, known as “Reed’s Nine Steps to Getting a Confession”; the approach of domestic psychologist L. B. Filonov, the authors’ approach to organizing the process of getting a confession within a service interview are partially described. The psychological mechanisms that make it possible to obtain previously unknown information during in-house interviews, which can be used in any kind of interviews and interrogations, are considered.