Extra Chapter 2: Confessions of crimes

Question 1

Where are false confessions more likely?

Answer 1

• Young people
• Drug users or people with a criminal record
• people questioned by manipulative interrogators

Question 2

compliant false confessions

Answer 2

people confess to gain a promised or implied reward. (to escape an unpleasant situation or avoid threat)

Question 3

2 types of false confessions:

Answer 3

compliant false confessions
internalized false confessions

Question 4

internalized false confessions

Answer 4

vulnerable people confess because they actually believe they committed it because of pressure during the interrogation.

Question 5

forbidden key experiment & false confessions take-away:

Answer 5

People are far more likely to give a false confession when there was a witness and when the pace was really fast.
But the witness was the most influential.