Deceiving Suspects about Their Alibi Is Equally Harmful to the Innocent and Guilty

Autor/inn/en	Sauerland, Melanie; Krix, Alana C.; Sagana, Anna
Titel	Deceiving Suspects about Their Alibi Is Equally Harmful to the Innocent and Guilty
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33 (2019) 6, S.1238-1246 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sauerland, Melanie) ORCID (Sagana, Anna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.3577
Schlagwörter	Police; Crime; Deception; Cognitive Ability; Criminals; Prediction; Measurement; Decision Making; Ethics; Law Enforcement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Täuschung; Denkfähigkeit; Straftäter; Vorhersage; Messverfahren; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Ethik; Gesetzesvollzug
Abstract	A common belief in police officers is that guilty suspects' statements are less consistent than innocent suspects'. This could leave guilty suspects more vulnerable to missing inconsistencies externally induced into their alibis. Source monitoring and cognitive load approaches suggest that untruthfulness rather than guilt should predict proneness to such deception. Manipulating both guilt and truthfulness, we tested these opposing hypotheses. One hundred twenty-six participants were accused of stealing gift vouchers after wandering about a building. When interviewed several days later, participants rarely detected alterations in their alibi (23-29%). Unexpectedly, for one of three detection measures, untruthful participants detected "more" manipulations than did truthful participants. Guilt did not moderate detection rates. Manipulations were equally harmful for guilty and innocent suspects, and blindness to the alibi manipulations was not useful for discriminating innocent from guilty suspects. Because blindness effects are easy to elicit in the legal context, techniques that externally induce inconsistencies should be avoided. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01