Question

According to a study by kassin and his colleagues (2005), police detectives were _____ to evaluate false confessions as true.

Answer 1

The correct answer is ...prone... Kassin et al. (2005 conducted a study trying to demonstrate that even experimented interrogators tend to be biased by misconceptions, personal feelings and misinterpretations of body language exhibit by the person under interrogation. “Across studies, investigators and trained participants, relative to naive controls, exhibited a proclivity to judge targets as deceptive” (Kassin, 2005, p.217)