747 CHAPTER 39 Deception Induced Confession: Strategies of Police Interrogators and Their Lay Collaborators Tyler N. Livingston, Peter O. Rerick, J. Guillermo Villalobos and Deborah Davis Aspiring to become the master interrogator of his generation, a new US law enforcement officer walks into the office of the reigning master interrogator of his day to ask his advice. The master interrogator tells him: Son, you’re trying to convince your targets to do something that they firmly believe will have terrible consequences for them, and maybe their whole group or country. They have really good reasons to believe this. And indeed, if they confess or provide intelligence, it will actually be terrible for them and others they might be protecting. They aren’t going to start out liking you or trusting you. They’ll assume you’re the enemy and that you just want to hurt them. All their suspicions are right. They should fear and distrust you, and they shouldn’t follow any of your advice. So, how do you get past that? Well, you’re going to © The Author(s) 2019 T. Docan-Morgan (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96334-1_39 T. N. Livingston · P. O. Rerick · J. G. Villalobos · D. Davis (*) University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA e-mail: debdavis@unr.edu T. N. Livingston e-mail: livingston@nevada.unr.edu P. O. Rerick e-mail: prerick@nevada.unr.edu J. G. Villalobos e-mail: jvillalobos@unr.edu