Cumulative disadvantage: A psychological framework for understanding how innocence can lead to confession, wrongful conviction, and beyond

KC Scherr, AD Redlich… - … on Psychological Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
False confessions are a contributing factor in almost 30% of DNA exonerations in the United
States. Similar problems have been documented all over the world. We present a novel …

A survey of potential jurors' perceptions of interrogations and confessions.

A Mindthoff, JR Evans, G Perez… - … , Public Policy, and …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Confessions represent one of the most influential types of evidence, and research has
shown that mock jurors often fail to dismiss unreliable confession evidence. However, recent …

An attribution theory–based content analysis of mock jurors' deliberations regarding coerced confessions.

MC Stevenson, E McCracken, AR Watson… - Law and Human …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Because confessions are sometimes unreliable, it is important to understand how
jurors evaluate confession evidence. We conducted a content analysis testing an attribution …

The right to remain silent: Realities and illusions

SM Kassin, KC Scherr, F Alceste - The Routledge international …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Most Western democracies recognize the right to remain silent as operationalized through
the warning-and-waiver requirements introduced by the US Supreme Court in Miranda v …

Police interviewing in Taiwan: A self-report survey of practices and beliefs

F Wang, SM Kassin… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Following upon a prior survey of 631 North American law enforcement officers, and in light of
heightened concerns about false confessions, we assessed the interrogation practices and …

When do false accusations lead to false confessions? Preliminary evidence for a potentially overlooked alternative explanation

S Gubi-Kelm, T Grolig, B Strobel, S Ohlig… - Journal of Forensic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In the present study, we have taken a novel approach in confession research to investigate
and compare situational as well as individual risk factors among false confessors and true …

Police tactics and guilt status uniquely influence suspects' physiologic reactivity and resistance to confess.

CJ Normile, KC Scherr - Law and Human Behavior, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Research has identified numerous factors that influence suspects during police
interrogations. However, the dynamics between individuals' physiologic reactivity and their …

Intent-to-treat in the “cheating” paradigm: A meta-analysis

AD Redlich, M Catlin, T Bettens - Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2024 - Springer
Objectives The “cheating paradigm” is an often-used procedure that randomly assigns
participants to cheat (guilty) or not cheat (innocent). However, not all participants conform to …

[BOOK][B] The Routledge international handbook of legal and investigative psychology

R Bull, I Blandón-Gitlin - 2019 - books.google.com
The Routledge International Handbook of Legal and Investigative Psychology explores
contemporary topics in psychological science, applying them to investigative and legal …

The Miranda penalty: Inferring guilt from suspects' silence.

ML Lawrence, ER Saiter, RE Eerdmans… - Law and human …, 2024 - search.proquest.com
Objective: Despite the risks inherent to custodial police interrogation, criminal suspects may
waive their Miranda rights and submit to police questioning in fear that exercising their rights …