PSY-0013 Lecture Notes - Eyewitness Testimony, False Confession, Fundamental Attribution Error
19 Feb 2014
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Women are not harsher trial jurors than men. Innocent people sometimes confess to crimes they didn"t commit. People fool lie detectors by increasing arousal throughout questions, not suppressing arousal for certain questions. Eyewitnesses find it difficult to recognize members of a race other than their own. More confidence in eyewitnesses does not mean greater accuracy. One can predict jury"s final verdict by knowing where jurors stood last time they voted. 1989 central jogger case, 5 (innocent) boys confessed to assault/rape, real rapist stepped forward years later. Iv1: pace of task fast or slow. Dv1: compliance sign confession handwritten by experimenter. Dv2: internalization admit guilt to stranger (confederate) after study was supposedly over. 100% ps agreed to sign paper with false eyewitness, decreased compliance without eyewitness. Only 60% internalized guilt with eyewitness and fast task, barely internalized without eyewitness. Fewer people complied even with eyewitness present, compliance went even further down without eyewitness.
