Anderson Investigative AssociatesScience-Based Interview & Investigation Training
Beyond truthful or deceptive: reading strategic behavior.
This foundational training program equips investigators, compliance professionals, fraud examiners, and security personnel with essential capabilities for recognizing and understanding sophisticated strategic behavior during investigative interviews — moving past the outdated binary of truthful versus deceptive.
Moving beyond the truthful-or-deceptive assumption
This foundational training program equips investigators, compliance professionals, fraud examiners, and security personnel with essential capabilities for recognizing and understanding sophisticated strategic behavior during investigative interviews.
Moving beyond traditional assumptions that subjects are either truthful or deceptive, this course focuses on the reality that modern subjects employ complex strategic frameworks including withholding, disclosure, mixed, and adaptive strategies.
Built on meta-analytic research, not legacy assumptions
Based on recent meta-analytic research examining interrogation technique validity and breakthrough studies in counter-interrogation strategy recognition, our program addresses the documented reality that subjects use sophisticated strategic approaches regardless of whether investigators acknowledge them.
The curriculum incorporates validated research on innocent interviewees' planned counter-interrogation strategies and the Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) technique, providing evidence-based alternatives to legacy confrontational methods.
What participants will be able to do
Through comprehensive analysis of strategic behavior patterns, practical scenario exercises, and examination of strategic decision-making frameworks, participants will develop the ability to:
- Identify Strategic Behavior Types: Recognize withholding strategies, disclosure strategies, mixed approaches, and adaptive strategic shifts that subjects naturally employ during interviews.
- Assess Strategic Indicators: Move beyond binary cooperation/resistance thinking to understand the sophisticated cost-benefit analyses subjects perform when determining information sharing approaches.
- Apply Strategic Recognition Skills: Distinguish between strategic withholding, partial cooperation, simple deception, and genuine compliance to ensure appropriate investigative responses.
- Implement Science-Based Evidence Management: Utilize strategic evidence revelation techniques that demonstrate investigative competence while working with rather than against strategic behavior.
- Avoid Legacy Method Pitfalls: Recognize how traditional confrontational approaches often trigger more sophisticated strategic resistance rather than promoting disclosure.
- Integrate Strategic Literacy: Develop comprehensive strategic assessment capabilities that improve information quality, case efficiency, and investigative relationships.
Real-world scenarios, not theory alone
Participants will analyze real-world scenarios involving corporate investigations, regulatory compliance matters, criminal cases, and internal misconduct inquiries.
The program emphasizes recognition of strategic behavior in contexts ranging from financial fraud investigations to workplace misconduct cases involving educated, experienced, or legally represented subjects who naturally employ sophisticated approaches.
Grounded in current academic research
This training reflects the latest academic research in strategic interviewing, incorporating findings from cognitive psychology, decision theory, and behavioral analysis.
Our curriculum maintains strict adherence to scientifically-validated methodologies while avoiding outdated confrontational techniques that have been shown to increase rather than reduce strategic resistance.
Why strategic literacy is now essential
The program addresses the fundamental reality that strategic behavior recognition has become essential for investigative effectiveness.
Organizations that continue operating without strategic literacy find themselves increasingly disadvantaged when dealing with sophisticated subjects who use complex decision-making frameworks during interviews.
Testimonials
Feedback from investigators, auditors and IG professionals who've trained with AIA.
Mark's training classes are a refreshing and engaging approach to gathering pertinent evidence during the interviewing process. He is extremely engaging and knowledgeable and presents the material in a way that draws the audience in.
Mark's training is engaging, approachable, and genuinely enjoyable, yet firmly grounded in the latest science.
Mark has a myriad of law enforcement and public corruption investigation experience that makes him one of the highest rated instructors at the AIG Institutes.
Uniquely qualified to develop and deliver interviewing and interrogation training to new and experienced criminal and administrative investigators alike.
Mark's expertise in investigative interviewing sets him apart — an outstanding and enthusiastic instructor who received consistently favorable comments from students and colleagues.
Some of the best interviewing training I've ever seen and sent my detectives to. His practices and trainings evolve as he learns more from science-based information.
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