Dr. Susan Adams is a communications consultant and instructor with 28 years of teaching experience.  She teaches counterintelligence, interviewing and interrogation, detection of deception, interpersonal communication and linguistic text analysis.  

Dr. Adams is a retired FBI Agent who spent the last ten years of her FBI career instructing federal agents, law enforcement officers, and international students at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.  Dr. Adams also served as Acting Unit Chief of the Law Enforcement Communication Unit at the FBI Academy. 

As an adjunct instructor for the University of Virginia, Dr. Adams taught graduate courses titled “Interviewing Strategies through Statement Analysis.”  She received her Ph.D. in Human Development from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 

Dr. Adams is the 2004 recipient of the University of Virginia Jefferson Award for excellence in research.  Her research examined indicators of the likelihood of veracity and deception in criminal statements written by suspects and victims.  She presented her research results at the Detection of Deception Symposium at the International Conference on Psychology and Law, Edinburgh University, Scotland. 

Dr. Adams was guest speaker at the National Conference of FBI Polygraph Examiners, the American Association of Police Polygraph Examiners Conference, the FBI Behavioral Analysis Program Annual Conference, and the Annual Women in Federal Law Enforcement Conference.  She has conducted training sessions at international conferences in Europe and in Canada and at numerous national and regional conferences throughout the United States.

Dr. Adams authored “Indicators of Veracity and Deception: An Analysis of Written Statements Made to Police,” The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, with Dr. John P Jarvis, 2006.

The following articles, published in the Law Enforcement Bulletin, were authored or co-authored by Dr. Adams: