A terrorist act is a profoundly human act, and my research
examines people’s behaviors in security settings, including
counter-terrorism, intelligence gathering, law enforcement and the
legal system. Our work looks at what clues are associated with
deception and malfeasant intentions, as well as how good are people
at spotting such clues, whether we can train people to spot them
better, what sort of interpersonal styles optimize intelligence
gathering in interviews, and whether we can create automated
systems that might facilitate the identification of individuals who
intend to commit an extreme event, or catching the perpetrators of
such an act.
