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“It wasn't me, check the cameras!” Suspects' apparent verifiable responses might not indicate innocence
| العنوان: | “It wasn't me, check the cameras!” Suspects' apparent verifiable responses might not indicate innocence |
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| المؤلفون: | Blandón‐Gitlin, Iris, Masip Pallejá, Jaume, Jiménez González, Ana Isabel, Herrero Alonso, María Carmen |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Universidad de Salamanca: Gredos (Gestión del Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Salamanca) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | alibies, crime suspects, deception detection, investigative interviewing, verifiability, Lie Detection, Police, Crime, Criminal Psychology, Psychology, Social, Interview, 6114 Psicología social, policía, psicología criminalista, psicología social, crimen, entrevista, detección de mentiras |
| الوصف: | Datos de investigación en: http://hdl.handle.net/10366/153844 ; The verifiability of a suspect's alibi is often interpreted as a sign of innocence. Because the police resources are limited, verifiability could be used to dismiss suspects of minor offenses. We examined whether alibi verifiability actually indicates innocence for minor crimes. In Experiment 1, participants imagined they were guilty or innocent suspects of minor crimes and selected a response to convince the police of their innocence. Compared to innocent suspects, guilty suspects were more likely to select pseudo-verifiable responses (which seemed verifiable but were not) rather than non-verifiable responses. Experiment 2 revealed that pseudo-verifiable responses increased observers' perceptions of innocence (rather than guilt). Experiment 3 suggested that people infer the police will not verify alibis of minor crimes, which may lead people to invent pseudo-verifiable responses. These results indicate that apparent verifiability does not necessarily indicate innocence. The police should systematically test alternative hypotheses whenever they encounter apparent verifiable responses. ; During part of this research, the first author was supported by a scholarship of the city hall of Salamanca and the University of Salamanca under the “VIII Centenario de Retención de Jóvenes Talentos para la Iniciación a la Investigación en la Universidad de Salamanca Cofinanciados por el Ayuntamiento de Salamanca para Estudiantes de Doctorado” program (2020–2021). |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0735-3936 1099-0798 |
| Relation: | Jiménez-González, A., Masip, J., Blandón-Gitlin, I., & Herrero, C. (in press). “It wasn’t me, check the cameras!” Suspects’ apparent verifiable responses might not indicate innocence. Behavioral Sciences and the Law. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2639; http://hdl.handle.net/10366/153799 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/bsl.2639 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10366/153799 https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2639 |
| Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.3527DA05 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 07353936 10990798 |
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| DOI: | 10.1002/bsl.2639 |