TY - JOUR
T1 - Suspect personality, police interrogations, and false confessions
T2 - Maybe it is not just the situation
AU - Forrest, Krista D.
AU - Wadkins, Theresa A.
AU - Larson, Bridget A.
PY - 2006/2
Y1 - 2006/2
N2 - We empirically examined whether individual personality differences exist between people who falsely confess and internalize responsibility for an incident and those who do not. After completing personality inventories assessing authoritarianism, locus of control, interaction anxiousness, and fear of negative evaluation, as well as the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS 2), participants completed the Kassin and Kiechel (1996) computer paradigm for eliciting false confessions. Overall, 81.6% of the 98 participants confessed to and 59.2% internalized responsibility for the incident. Although none of the personality variables related to participant false confessions, locus of control, interaction anxiousness and authoritarianism all differed as a function of internalization.
AB - We empirically examined whether individual personality differences exist between people who falsely confess and internalize responsibility for an incident and those who do not. After completing personality inventories assessing authoritarianism, locus of control, interaction anxiousness, and fear of negative evaluation, as well as the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS 2), participants completed the Kassin and Kiechel (1996) computer paradigm for eliciting false confessions. Overall, 81.6% of the 98 participants confessed to and 59.2% internalized responsibility for the incident. Although none of the personality variables related to participant false confessions, locus of control, interaction anxiousness and authoritarianism all differed as a function of internalization.
KW - False confessions
KW - Personality variables
KW - Police interrogations
KW - Suggestibility
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2005.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2005.09.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:30844443943
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 40
SP - 621
EP - 628
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 3
ER -