The link between suggestibility, compliance, and false confessions
| Autor: | Jennifer Maria Schell-Leugers, Sanne T. L. Houben, Henry Otgaar, Harald Merckelbach, Mark L. Howe, Alejandra de la Fuente Vilar |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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suggestibility
Field data BF Social Sciences MEMORY DISTRUST 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology compliance INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES 050105 experimental psychology Compliance (psychology) PSYCHOLOGY PLAUSIBILITY AGE Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Developmental and Educational Psychology Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences false confessions individual differences PERSONALITY CONSEQUENCES Psychology Experimental 05 social sciences Suggestibility nutritional and metabolic diseases Confession TRUE nervous system diseases INTERROGATIVE SUGGESTIBILITY Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Applied Cognitive Psychology. 35(2):445-455 |
| ISSN: | 0888-4080 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/acp.3788 |
| Popis: | Expert witnesses and scholars sometimes disagree on whether suggestibility and compliance are related to people's tendency to falsely confess. Hence, the principal aim of this review was to amass the available evidence on the link between suggestibility and compliance and false confessions. We reviewed experimental data in which false confessions were experimentally evoked and suggestibility and compliance were measured. Furthermore, we reviewed field data of potential false confessions and their relationship with suggestibility and compliance. These diverse databases converge to the same conclusion. We unequivocally found that high levels of suggestibility (and to a lesser extent compliance) were associated with an increased vulnerability to falsely confess. Suggestibility measurements might be informative for expert witnesses who must evaluate the false confession potential in legal cases. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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