Author Question: Kassin, Meissner, and Norwick (2005) videotaped male inmates confessing to crimes that they did and ... (Read 107 times)

gbarreiro · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Kassin, Meissner, and Norwick (2005) videotaped male inmates confessing to crimes that they did and did not commit and showed these videos to college students and police officers, asking them to judge which of the two confessions was true for ten inmates. They found that college students

a. were more accurate than police officers.
b. were less accurate than police officers.
c. and police officers were both inaccurate.
d. and police officers were highly accurate.

Question 2

Self-fulfilling prophecies perpetuate stereotypes by

a. increasing the likelihood that perceivers create subtypes.
b. eliciting stereotype-confirming behavior from targets.
c. threatening individual self-esteem.
d. reducing in group favoritism.