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"Evidence from some wrongful-conviction cases suggests that suspects can be
questioned in ways that lead them to falsely believe in and confess to
committing crimes they didn’t actually commit. Research provides lab-based
evidence for this phenomenon, showing that innocent adult participants can be
convinced, over the course of a few hours, that they had perpetrated crimes as
serious as assault with a weapon in their teenage years.
The research, published in
Psychological Science, a journal of the
Association for Psychological Science, indicates that the participants came to
internalize the stories they were told, providing rich and detailed
descriptions of events that never actually took place.
“Our findings show that false memories of committing crime with police contact
can be surprisingly easy to generate, and can have all the same kinds of
complex details as real memories,” says psychological scientist and lead
researcher Julia Shaw of the University of Bedfordshire in the UK."
Via Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
