 Ofshe lists his areas of interest to be coercive social control, social psychology, influence in police interrogation, and influence leading to pseudo-memory in psychotherapy.Ofshe has been characterized as a "world-renowned expert on influence interrogation".He believes that coerced confessional testimony is extremely unreliable and stated in a 1993 "Time" article that "Recovered memory therapy will come to be recognized as the quackery of the 20th century."