The search for truth -- Truth and lies -- Psychophysiological basis of the forensic assessment -- Preparation for the interview/interrogation -- Morgan interview theme technique (MITT) -- Forensic statement analysis -- Question formulation : irrelevant, relevant, and comparison questions -- Projective analysis of unwitting verbal clues -- Nonverbal behavioral assessment -- Traditional scoring of the FAINT interview -- The validation of the forensic assessment interview (FAINT) -- Interviewing children and the mentally challenged -- Report writing -- Torture and false confessions ; the ethics of a post 9/11 world -- Pre-employment interviewing -- Passenger screening with verbal and nonverbal cues -- Legal considerations -- The integrated interrogation technique -- Statements, recordings and videos -- The instrumental detection of deception : polygraph -- The search for truth : future instrumentation.