How intelligence interviewees mentally identify relevant information.

ABSTRACT: This research explored how intelligence interviewees mentally identify the relevant information at their disposal. We theorized that interviewees estimate the interviewer's objectives based on how they frame any attempt to solicit information. Then interviewees organize the information they possess into item designations that pragmatically correspond to the perceived interviewer-objective. The more an interviewer specifies what they want to know, the more the interviewee will mentally designate information items corresponding with that objective. To examine the theory, we conducted two identical experiments wherein participants assumed the role of an informant with one of two dispositions. They were to be cooperative or resistant when undergoing an interview. The interviewer posed specific

SUBMITTER: Neequaye DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427824 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature