Overlooking coerciveness: The impact of interrogation techniques and guilt corroboration on jurors' judgments of coerciveness

摘要

Purpose. The present study investigated whether mock jurors judged the coerciveness of an interrogation differently based on whether or not a confession led to the discovery of corroborating evidence. Specifically, we examined whether jurors were likely to overlook tactics they would otherwise find objectionable if they were confident that the defendant was guilty.