Eduction
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 Eduction, not to be confused with education, is used as a term of art from human-source intelligence, which covers the broad range of situations, voluntary and involuntary, in which information is obtained from human beings. While the term has been criticized as a public relations attempt to soften the impact of controversy surrounding "interrogation", [1] there is value to a collective term that includes:
A broader usage is "to draw out something hidden, latent, or reserved. educe implies the bringing out of something potential or latent (educed order out of chaos}"[2] Planning interactions[edit]Eduction still includes a great deal of art, although there are potential insights, from the social sciences, of what techniques provide useful information. Broadly, however, four areas show promise:[3]
He believes persuasive messaging has the greatest potential to change positions, while negotiation theory is better suited to the interactive obtaining of information. There is, of course, an immense body of experience with persuasion in advertising, and certainly some in psychological warfare. An insightful police detective once described himself as a salesman, with the job of selling, to the prisoner, the idea that prison was a more attractive alternative than his present situation. Thought control certainly involves persuasion more than negotiation; it seeks conformity and confession, neither one of which is terribly pertinent to obtaining information. Finding truth[edit]Both in voluntary and involuntary situations, human beings may lie. Knowing the truth has always been a goal of those seeking information. In classical Greek and Roman situations, it was assumed that torture was necessary to get the truth from slaves. Over time, serious analysts realized that tortured information was often that which the subject thought would stop the torture, not necessarily what was true. Current best practices combine using the direct verbal interaction, clues from nonverbal communication, and painstaking correlation of statements with all other available sources. [7] "Truth serums" were one Holy Grail in interrogation, although none ever demonstrated reliable results. There is much controversy of whether the polygraph has real value; at best, it is a measure of strong emotion rather than truth. The use of neuroimaging in eduction is still an area of research. Police-oriented studies by the Rand Corporation suggested there is more information on what does not work in interrogation than on what does work. [8] Nonverbal communication is an area of great interest. The anthropologist Edward T. Hall coined the term proxemics, or the "silent language", addressing such things as interpersonal distance and other, culturally-dependent aspects of nonverbal communication. [9]Police and intelligence human-source collectors make use of a wide range of observational techniques.[10] References[edit]
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