The Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms (SIRS) is a fully structured interview that is designed to assess feigned mental disorders and related response styles. Each of its eight primary scales was constructed to evaluate well-established detection strategies for differentiating between malingered and genuine psychopathology. These primary scales consist of Rare Symptoms (RS), Symptom Combinations (SC)
Eyewitness information is the key element in solving many crimes, yet the police are often poorly trained in conducting information-gathering interviews, and they make avoidable mistakes. To rectify this situation, Ronald Fisher and Edward Geiselman developed the Cognitive Interview (CI) procedure to collect information from cooperative witnesses. The CI techniques are based on scientific principles
Within journalism, the interview is traditionally known as a tool for gathering story material, but it is also a finished news product in its own right, a basic form journalists use to package news for public consumption. This mode of news presentation was marginal in the newspaper era, when verbatim interviews only occasionally appeared in
The Fitness Interview Test-Revised (FIT-R) is an instrument designed for use by mental health professionals in evaluations of competence to stand trial. Designed as a structured clinical judgment instrument that guides evaluators through an assessment of the specific psycholegal abilities required of a defendant to stand trial, the FIT-R demonstrates reliability and predictive validity and
To find the best employees, companies and organizations conduct time-intensive and costly recruiting activities resulting in numerous interviews with multiple candidates to fill just one vacancy. The interview process, from the employer’s perspective, is to find the best-qualified candidate who has the right match for the job and the company. The job seeker, on the
An exit interview is a discussion between a departing employee and a representative of the organization that occurs in the last days of an employee’s tenure. The interviewer is typically a manager or a human resources professional. The interview usually takes place on company property during work hours. Exit interviews are widely believed to be
The psychodiagnostic interview is an essential component of mental health diagnosis in which mental health professionals collect specific information about an individual to label his or her mental health problems. A significant number of individuals involved in the criminal justice system have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. Many more may have undiagnosed problems. Misdiagnosed
The forensic interview is a key element of any forensic evaluation. This detailed interview is used to gather information and clinical data required to answer a specific psycholegal referral question. The following sections outline the unique characteristics of forensic interviews, including legal contexts, referral questions, and other important considerations (e.g., use of collateral information, bias
The term “interview” allows for several definitions. In this article, all forms of the socioscientific interview – also called survey – are dealt with. The interview – along with content analysis and observation – is one of the three basic empirical instruments of data collection. It is defined as a planned and systematic situation in
At first sight, a scientific interview resembles a common conversation, a qualitative interview even more so than a standardized one. Unlike a day-to-day conversation, however, such an interview takes place in an artificial situation, follows specific rules, and is conducted to reach a predefined goal. An open-ended interview can be conducted for two different reasons.