Guilt Assessment after Retracted Voluntary and Coerced-Compliant Confessions in Combination with Exculpatory or Ambiguous Evidence

Autor/inn/en	Schneider, Teresa; Sauerland, Melanie
Titel	Guilt Assessment after Retracted Voluntary and Coerced-Compliant Confessions in Combination with Exculpatory or Ambiguous Evidence
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37 (2023) 2, S.383-398 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schneider, Teresa) ORCID (Sauerland, Melanie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.4041
Schlagwörter	Compliance (Legal); Evidence; Ambiguity (Context); Genetics; Law Enforcement; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Risk; Deception; Ethics; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Evidenz; Humangenetik; Gesetzesvollzug; Risiko; Täuschung; Ethik
Abstract	We investigated how voluntary confessions, coerced-compliant confessions, and no-confessions influenced guilt assessments in combination with other exculpatory or ambiguous evidence. In three experiments (total N = 808), participants studied case information and provided guilt assessments. As expected, in Experiment 1 and 2a, (i) voluntary confessions to protect a family member elicited stronger guilt attributions than no-confessions and (ii) ambiguous evidence led to stronger guilt attributions than exculpatory evidence. In Experiment 2b, voluntary confessions to protect a group-member (but not to protect a family-member) elicited stronger guilt attributions than no-confessions. Exculpatory eyewitness evidence elicited stronger guilt attributions than exculpatory DNA evidence and participants assigned more weight to exculpatory DNA than eyewitness evidence. Participants were able to discount coerced-compliant confessions when they received information about the interrogations (Experiments 2a/b), but did not consistently consider risk factors for (voluntary) false confessions outside the interrogation room when assessing guilt. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01