Does pressure and false evidence make suspects internalise guilt?
“Psychological research by Kassin similarly demonstrates that suspects may internalise guilt when subjected to pressure and false evidence.⁹”
Summary
Kassin’s experimental work shows that presenting suspects with false evidence leads a substantial majority—often 44 % to 65 % or more—to internalize guilt and even confess falsely, while internalization is rare (0‑12 %) without such pressure. This confirms that pressure and false evidence can cause suspects to adopt a false sense of guilt.
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- False Confession - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
To date (14 October 2013) there ... Wrightsman (1985) suggested three types of false confessions: (1) voluntary, (2) coerced-compliant and (3) coerced-internalized......
- False Confessions: An Integrative Review of the Phenomenon - PMC
On that point, nearly 26% intended to confess even before they were interrogated, likewise undermining longtime presumptions among academics in this area that confession itself is counterintuitive (Kassin 2012). If a suspect believes confession is in one's best interest, such a rationale may be well founded if the suspect knows they are guilty.
- The Science-Based Pathways to Understanding False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions - PMC
As a part of the early development, Gudjonsson and MacKeith (1982) introduced the term “memory distrust syndrome” to describe the memory vulnerabilities and processes that produced internalized false confessions. Numerous case studies (Gudjonsson, 2003a, 2018), as well as experimental evidence (Kassin and Kiechel, 1996; Horselenberg et al., 2003; Van Bergen et al., 2008, 2009, 2010), have supported the crucial role of memory distrust in some cases of false confessions.
- False Confessions: Dr. Saul Kassin & the (re-)trial of John Kogut – Social Science and the Law
Additionally, only 0-12% of people who were not confronted with false evidence showed any evidence of internalization while 44–65% of the subjects that were presented with false evidence against them exhibited internalization of the action. This study gives strong empirical support to the ...
- The Lie, The Bluff, and False Confessions
J. T. Perillo S. M. Kassin (&) Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, ... Tankleff was convicted. Nineteen years later, his convic- tion was overturned and all charges were dismissed ... Elaad, 2010). Ironically, laboratory research suggests that · mock interrogators who presume a suspect guilty conduct · particularly pressure-filled interrogations when paired with
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- The Social Psychology of False Confessions
Effects of actual innocence. On the basis of anecdotal evidence suggesting · that innocent people think and behave differently from guilty suspects in an in- terrogation setting, Kassin (2005) proposed that innocence itself could be a risk
- Inside Interrogation: The Lie, The Bluff, and False Confessions
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