Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: False Confession, Soft Sell, Forensic Psychiatry

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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Interrogator gets suspect to write and sign full confession. Potential problems w/ reid model of interrogation: detecting deception, likely that decision to interrogate suspect when using reid model will often be based on incorrect determination that suspect is guilty. Interrogators w/ guilty expectations asked more questions that indicated thei(cid:396) (cid:271)elief i(cid:374) suspe(cid:272)t"s guilt. Interrogators w/ guilty expectations used higher frequency of interrogation techniques compared w/ interrogators w/ innocent expectations, especially at outset of interrogation. Interrogators w/ guilty expectations judged more suspects to be guilty, regardless of whether suspect was actually guilty. Implying psychiatric help would be provided if defendant confessed: minimizing seriousness of crime, suggesting that confession would spare his girlfriend from having to undergo stressful interrogation. Incidence of self-reported false confessions among prison inmates found to vary from. Studying false confessions in lab: compliance: tendency to go along w/ demands made by people perceived to be in authority, even though person may not agree w/ them.