Previous research shows that some proportion of people interrogated confess, regardless of actual guilt. It has also been shown that the camera perspective from which an interrogation is videotaped influences later judgments of voluntariness and guilt, as well as sentencing recommendations. The present research extends the understanding of this phenomenon of false confessions and the camera perspective bias. Ecologically valid videotaped true/false confessions and denials were obtained in Experiment 1. The proportions of guilt participants and participants that confessed to cheating were found to be smaller in Experiment 1 than those in previous research. Participants in Experiment 2 viewed the videotapes from the first experiment from a su...
This study examined the effect of mock jurors’ perceptions of a defendant’s false confession vs. no ...
Eyewitness misidentification is a leading cause of wrongful conviction. Although the prior probabili...
Confession rates in the United States criminal justice system are high, and at least some of those w...
Prior research has indicated that altering the perspective from which a videotaped confession is rec...
Prior research has established that simply altering the perspective from which a videotaped confessi...
A confession is one of the most influential kinds of evidence offered at trial (Leo, 2009). The weig...
False confessions occur at a rate that contradicts the commonsense belief that only the guilty confe...
Confession documentaries frequently interview the attorneys and relatives of the wrongfully convicte...
The purpose of the current study was to attempt to model various cognitive and social processes that...
College students and police investigators watched or listened to 10 prison inmates con-fessing to cr...
© 2018 American Psychological Association. Confessions represent one of the most influential types o...
Evidence obtained through the process of interrogation is frequently undermined by what can be perce...
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Holt, G. A., & Palmer, M. A. (2020). The...
The reliability of a confession partially depends on the interrogation methods used and the confessi...
False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions in Canada, suggesting a lack of protec...
This study examined the effect of mock jurors’ perceptions of a defendant’s false confession vs. no ...
Eyewitness misidentification is a leading cause of wrongful conviction. Although the prior probabili...
Confession rates in the United States criminal justice system are high, and at least some of those w...
Prior research has indicated that altering the perspective from which a videotaped confession is rec...
Prior research has established that simply altering the perspective from which a videotaped confessi...
A confession is one of the most influential kinds of evidence offered at trial (Leo, 2009). The weig...
False confessions occur at a rate that contradicts the commonsense belief that only the guilty confe...
Confession documentaries frequently interview the attorneys and relatives of the wrongfully convicte...
The purpose of the current study was to attempt to model various cognitive and social processes that...
College students and police investigators watched or listened to 10 prison inmates con-fessing to cr...
© 2018 American Psychological Association. Confessions represent one of the most influential types o...
Evidence obtained through the process of interrogation is frequently undermined by what can be perce...
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Holt, G. A., & Palmer, M. A. (2020). The...
The reliability of a confession partially depends on the interrogation methods used and the confessi...
False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions in Canada, suggesting a lack of protec...
This study examined the effect of mock jurors’ perceptions of a defendant’s false confession vs. no ...
Eyewitness misidentification is a leading cause of wrongful conviction. Although the prior probabili...
Confession rates in the United States criminal justice system are high, and at least some of those w...