Four named skills. Applied across every case you work.

Statement Analysis

Verb tense shifts reveal when recall becomes construction. Pronoun use maps psychological distance from an event. Non-contracted denial indicates rehearsal. Territorial qualifiers answer questions not yet asked. These are linguistic markers drawn from academic deception research and used in real investigative contexts.

Deception Detection

Microexpressions are involuntary facial expressions that occur before the managed expression replaces them. Illustrators, gestures that accompany speech, reduce sharply when someone is mentally fabricating rather than recalling. Self-grooming behaviors appear at specific moments under specific kinds of pressure. Each of these has a documented mechanism and a documented misreading.

Behavioral Profiling

Referential detachment describes how people talk about victims they knew. Psychological distancing language uses distal demonstratives where proximal ones would be normal. Absence of expected emotion is only meaningful in context, and context requires a baseline. This skill area teaches the difference between someone who appears unaffected and someone who is genuinely unaffected.

Interrogation Psychology

Strategic vagueness implies knowledge without specifying it. Cognitive load tests ask a subject to tell their account in reverse chronological order, which collapses fabricated narratives because fabricated accounts are rehearsed forward. Silence creates social pressure to fill the gap. These are recognition skills, not deployment skills, and the distinction matters.

The after-action report

Every deception indicator from every subject, named and explained. Guilty indicators in red. Innocent subjects who showed anxiety are explained separately, because those two things look nearly identical and learning to distinguish them is the core skill.