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Compliant False Confessions

Edited to add a little more insight on the mindset of suspects who are under grueling interrogations. The thought here is that anyone can be persuaded into producing a false confession, given the right conditions.

Police Mindset

The information added here from Gisli Gudjonssons book The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions describes police manipulation techniques and their effect on interrogations. This helps connect information to the 2010 study conducted below, which indicates that interrogations are more about obtaining confessions than questioning suspects about a certain crime.

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