Author Question: Research on false confessions suggests that a. it is extremely rare for people to confess to a ... (Read 87 times)

HCHenry · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Research on false confessions suggests that

a. it is extremely rare for people to confess to a crime they did not commit
b. people are more likely to make a false confession when the behavior they are
accused of engaging in seems plausible
c. false confessions are more likely when there are no witnesses to a crime
d. false confessions are more common now than in the past

Question 2

Regarding the effect of race on judgments of a defendant's guilt, aversive racism theory predicts that people will be most affected by race when

a. the race of the defendant is not made salient
b. there is an eyewitness to the crime
c. the jury is all the same race
d. the judge encourages people not to be influenced by race