TY - JOUR
T1 - Innocent but proven guilty
T2 - eliciting internalized false confessions using doctored-video evidence
AU - Nash, Robert A.
AU - Wade, Kimberley A.
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - More powerful computers and affordable digital-video equipment means that desktop-video editing is now accessible and popular. In two experiments, we investigated whether seeing fake-video evidence, or simply being told that video evidence exists, could lead people to believe they committed an act they never did. Subjects completed a computerized gambling task, and when they returned later the same day, we falsely accused them of cheating on the task. All of the subjects were told that incriminating video evidence existed, and half were also exposed to a fake video. See-video subjects were more likely to confess without resistance, and to internalize the act than told-video subjects, and see-video subjects tended to confabulate details more often than told-video subjects. We offer a metacognitive-based account of our results.
AB - More powerful computers and affordable digital-video equipment means that desktop-video editing is now accessible and popular. In two experiments, we investigated whether seeing fake-video evidence, or simply being told that video evidence exists, could lead people to believe they committed an act they never did. Subjects completed a computerized gambling task, and when they returned later the same day, we falsely accused them of cheating on the task. All of the subjects were told that incriminating video evidence existed, and half were also exposed to a fake video. See-video subjects were more likely to confess without resistance, and to internalize the act than told-video subjects, and see-video subjects tended to confabulate details more often than told-video subjects. We offer a metacognitive-based account of our results.
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UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.1500/abstract
U2 - 10.1002/acp.1500
DO - 10.1002/acp.1500
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67649578896
SN - 0888-4080
VL - 23
SP - 624
EP - 637
JO - Applied Cognitive Psychology
JF - Applied Cognitive Psychology
IS - 5
ER -