Since April 2026, the Interpsy project has concluded. This website will only be updated to a limited extent. Key outputs of the project can be found on the media and publications pages. The results of the project will also be part of a monograph on the long-term history of criminal interrogation, which will hopefully be…

On Friday 13 September, I organized a workshop (as part of the InterPsy project & the Network for Culture, Law & the Body) on the past & present of criminal interrogation. The goal of the workshop was to have an interdisciplinary conversation on criminal interrogation as studied by historians, psychologists, legal scholars and practitioners. I…

On 13 September 2024, we are organizing an interdisciplinary workshop on the past and present of criminal interrogation in Utrecht, The Netherlands. If you study criminal interrogation or have encountered interrogations in your research, please consider submitting a proposal by 15 May 2024. You can find the full call for papers here.

A few days ago, the forensic psychologist Bruno Verschuere and a group of co-authors published a paper on lie detectionin Nature Human Behavior, which received ample attention in Dutch (1 2 3) and Belgian (1 2) popular media. After all, we all want to know how to detect lies! People (including police officers and judges)…

Welcome to the project blog for Interpsy, an MSCA-funded project about criminal interrogations and psychology in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century Germany, France and the Netherlands. As I am writing this, I (the “I” here is Elwin Hofman, as you can read in the about page) am one month into the project. My aim is to use…