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Why Would They Falsely Confess?

Why on earth would an innocent person falsely confess to committing a crime? To most people,it just doesn’t seem logical.But it is logical,say experts。if you understand what call happen in a police interrogation(审讯)room. Under the right conditions,people’s minds are susceptible(易受影响的)to influence,and the pressure put on suspects during police questioning is enormous.______(1)“The pressure is important to understand,because otherwise it's impossible to understand why someone would say he did something he didn’t do.The answer is:to put all end to an uncomfortable situation that will continue until he does confess.

Developmental psychologist Mary Redlich recently conducted a laboratory study to determine how likely people are to confess to things they didn’t do. ______ (2)the researchers then intentionally crashed the computers and accused the participants of hitting “alt” key to see if they would sign a statement falsely taking responsibility. Redlich’s findings clearly demonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely 59 percent of the young adults in the experiment immediately confessed. ______(3) Of the 15-to 16-year-olds,72 percent signed confessions,as 13-year-olds.

“There’s no question that young people are more at risk,”says Saul Kassin,a psychology professor at Williams College,who has done similar studies with similar .______(4) Both Kassin and Redlich note that the entire ‘‘interrogation” in their experiments consisted of a simple accusation-not hours of aggressive questioning--and still,most participants falsely decision.”______(5)“In some ways,”says Kassin,“false confession becomes a rational

A In her experiment,participants were seated at computers and told not to hit the“alt” key, because doing So would crash the systems.

B Because of the stress of a police interrogation,they conclude,suspects can become

convinced that falsely confessing is the easiest way out of a bad situation.

C “It’s a little like somebody’s working on them with a dental(牙齿) drill,” says Franklin Zimring,a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

D “But the baseline is that adults are highly vulnerable too.”

E The court found him innocent and he was released.

F Redlich also found that the younger the participant,the more likely a false confession.

参考答案: C A F D B

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