RT Article
T1 Practice makes perfect: effects of mere rehearsal on lay judgments of confessions
JF Psychology, crime & law
VO 30
IS 10
SP 1340
OP 1357
A1 Alceste, Fabiana
A2 Sanchez, Patricia Y.
A2 Luke, Timothy J.
A2 Dalsklev, Madeleine
A2 Rizzelli, Lucrezia
A2 Kassin, Saul 1953-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1907407316
AB Informed by individuals wrongfully convicted by confession, and in light of basic research on practice effects on performance, two studies examined the effects of rehearsal on suspects and observers. In Study 1 (N = 37), participants who were guilty or innocent of a mock crime were incentivized to confess and then improve upon that confession three more times. Overall, guilty suspects’ confessions were longer than those of innocents, rehearsal increased statement length in both conditions, and suspects described their rehearsed confessions as easier to give and more believable, and themselves as less nervous. In Study 2, 161 observers watched a single confession from the first study. Results showed that they did not distinguish between true and false confessions; they were biased toward seeing guilt, substantially over-believing false confessions; and rehearsal exacerbated this latter tendency. In the realm of ‘practice makes perfect’, innocence did not serve as a safeguard.
K1 Interrogation
K1 Police Interrogation
K1 false confession
K1 Confession
K1 Rehearsed confession
DO 10.1080/1068316X.2023.2190118