| Police Interrogations
and Confessions |
| Publications |
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Wallace & Kassin (in press). Harmless error analysis: How do judges respond to confession errors? Law and Human Behavior. |
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Perillo & Kassin (2011). Inside interrogation: The lie, the bluff, and false confessions. Law and Human Behavior. |
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Kassin, Drizin, Grisso, Gudjonsson, Leo, & Redlich (2010).
Police-induced confessions: Risk factors and recommendations. Law and
Human Behavior. [This is an official White Paper of the American
Psychology-Law Society) |
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Kassin, Drizin, Grisso, Gudjonsson, Leo, & Redlich (2010). Police-induced confessions, risk factors and recommendations: Looking ahead. Law and Human Behavior. |
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Kassin, Appleby, & Perillo (2010). Interviewing suspects: Practice, science,
and future directions. Legal and Criminological Psychology. |
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Hasel & Kassin (2009). On the presumption of evidentiary independence: Can confessions corrupt eyewitness identifications? Psychological Science. |
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Kassin (2008). The psychology of confessions. Annual Review of Law and Social Science. |
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Kassin (2008). Confession evidence: Commonsense myths and misconceptions. Criminal Justice and Behavior. |
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Kassin (2008). False confessions: Causes, consequences, and implications for reform. Current Directions in Psychological Science. |
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Kassin (2007). Expert testimony on the psychology of confessions: A pyramidal model of the relevant science. In Borgida & Fiske’s Beyond Common Sense: Psychological Science in the Courtroom. |
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Kassin, Leo, Meissner, Richman, Colwell, Leach, & La Fon (2007). Police interviewing and interrogation: A self-report survey of police practices and beliefs. Law and Human Behavior. |
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Kassin (2007). Internalized false confessions. In Toglia, Read, Ross, & Lindsay's Handbook of eyewitness psychology, Volume 1. (For more information on this book, visit Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.) |
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Kassin (2006). A critical
appraisal of modern
police interrogations, in T. Williamson's Investigative
interviewing: Rights,
research, regulation (For more
information on the
book, visit Willan
Publishing). |
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Kassin (2005). On the
psychology of confessions:
Does innocence put innocents at risk? American
Psychologist. (for a reprint,
email skassin@williams.edu). |
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Kassin & Gudjonsson (2005). True
Crimes, False confessions:
Why do innocent people
confess to crimes
they did not commit? Scientific
American Mind (for a reprint,
email skassin@williams.edu). |
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Kassin, Meissner, & Norwick
(2005). "I'd
know a false confession
if I saw one": A
comparative study
of college students and police investigators. Law
and Human Behavior. |
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Russano, Meissner,
Narchet, & Kassin
(2005). Investigating true
and false confessions
within a novel experimental
paradigm.
Psychological
Science. |
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Kassin & Gudjonsson (2004). The
psychology of confession
evidence: A review of the literature
and issues. Psychological
Science in the Public
Interest. |
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Kassin & Norwick
(2004). Why people waive
their
Miranda rights: The power of innocence. Law
and Human Behavior. |
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Kassin,
Goldstein, & Savitsky (2003). Behavioral
confirmation in the interrogation
room: On the dangers of presuming
guilt. Law and Human Behavior. |
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Meissner & Kassin
(2002). "He's guilty!":
Investigator Bias in Judgements
of Truth and Deception. Law
and Human Behavior. |
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Kassin
(2001). Confessions: Psychological
and forensic aspects. In Smelser & Baltes
(Eds.), International Encyclopedia
of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. |
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Kassin & Fong
(1999). "I'm Innocent!":
Effects of training on judgments
of truth and deception in the interrogation
Room. Law and Human Behavior. |
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Kassin
(1998). More on the psychology of false confessions. American
Psychologist. |
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Kassin (1997). The psychology
of confession evidence. American
Psychologist. (for a reprint, email
skassin@williams.edu). |
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Kassin & Sukel
(1997). Coerced confessions
and the jury: An experimental test
of the "harmless error" rule. Law
and Human Behavior. |
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Kassin & Neumann
(1997). On
the power of confession evidence:
An experimental test of the "fundamental
difference" hypothesis. Law
and Human Behavior. |
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Kassin (1997). False memories turned against the self. Psychological Inquiry. |
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Kassin & Kiechel
(1996). The social psychology
of false confessions: Compliance,
internalization, and confabulation. Psychological
Science. |
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Wrightsman & Kassin (1993). Confessions
in the Courtroom. Newbury Park,
CA: Sage. |
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Kassin & McNall
(1991). Police
interrogations & confessions:
Communicating promises and threats
by pragmatic implication. Law
and Human Behavior. |
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Kassin & Wrightsman
(1985). Confession evidence.
In Kassin & Wrightsman (Eds.), The
psychology of evidence and trial
procedure. |
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Kassin & Wrightsman
(1981). Coerced confessions, judicial instruction, and mock
juror verdicts. Journal of Applied
Social Psychology. |
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Kassin & Wrightsman
(1980). Prior
confessions and mock juror verdicts. Journal
of Applied Social Psychology. |
| Stimulus
Materials |
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Kassin et al. (2007). The 8-page “National Investigators Survey” used in this study. |
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Kassin & Neumann
(1997). Click below for trial
summaries of the confession conditions
used in this study. Murder / Rape / Assault / Theft |
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Kassin & Sukel
(1997). 22-page
transcript used
in the baseline
control group of
this study.
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| In
the Media |
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ABC Primetime stories on false
confessions, March
30, 2006. |
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Confessions
expert testimony
passes the
Frye test
in Nassau County, NY. Newsday.com, Sept
15, 2005. |
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Kassin op ed, "Videotape police interrogations," Boston
Globe, April 26,
2004. |
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"Why they lie and confess" - Tracey
Tyler, Toronto Star, August 10, 2003. |
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Kassin op ed, "False confessions
and the jogger case," New York
Times, November 1, 2002. |
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Fear Factor: How far
can police
go to get
a confession?
- Court TV,
November
19, 2002.
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| Links |
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How do police get suspects to confess?
Over the years, John E. Reid & Associates
have trained many tens of thousands
of law enforcement professionals. |
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Investigating interrogation practices
and false confessions in Canada,
CBC has a web page to accompany their
television news story, Inside
the Interrogation Room. |
