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dc.contributor.authorHolt, G. A.
dc.contributor.authorPalmer, Matthew A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-12T15:08:16Z
dc.date.available2020-10-12T15:08:16Z
dc.identifierhttps://chesterrep.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10034/623854/Holt%20and%20Palmer%202020%20Accepted%20version%2025%20Sept%202020.docx.pdf?sequence=4
dc.identifier.citationHolt, G. A., & Palmer, M. A. (2020). How downplaying or exaggerating crime severity in a confession affects perceived guilt. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2020.1837027en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13218719.2020.1837027
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/623854
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Psychiatry, Psychology and Law on forthcoming, available online: doi to be added when publisheden_US
dc.description.abstractThis study investigated how judgments of guilt are influenced by factual errors in confessions that either amplified or downplayed the severity of the crime. Participants read a confession statement and a police report. Information in the confession statement either was consistent with the facts of the crime in the police report, the suspect admitted to a worse crime than described in the police report, or the suspect admitted to a lesser crime than described in the police report. Mediation analyses showed that, compared to consistent confessions, both types of directional errors reduced judgments of guilt. Inconsistencies that made the suspect look better—but not those that made the suspect look worse—also increased judgments of guilt via a direct effect. Confessions that contain errors that appear to exaggerate the severity of the crime prompt no higher judgments of suspect guilt than confessions that are consistent with the facts of the crime. However, errors in confessions that are perceived to downplay the severity of the crime can prompt an increased perception of suspect guilt, when compared to a consistent confession.en_US
dc.publisherAustralian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Lawen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tppl20/currenten_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectwrongful convictionen_US
dc.subjectinconsistenciesen_US
dc.subjectjuror decision-makingen_US
dc.subjectfalse confessionen_US
dc.subjectattribution theoryen_US
dc.titleHow downplaying or exaggerating crime severity in a confession affects perceived guilten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1934-1687en_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Chester; University of Tasmaniaen_US
dc.identifier.journalPsychiatry, Psychology and Lawen_US
or.grant.openaccessYesen_US
rioxxterms.funderThis research was funded by a grant from the Community Law and Policing research group and the Institute for Social Change at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship awarded to Glenys Holt.en_US
rioxxterms.identifier.projectnot codeden_US
rioxxterms.versionAMen_US
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-12-14
rioxxterms.publicationdate2020-12-14
dc.dateAccepted2020-09-25
dc.date.deposited2020-10-12en_US
dc.indentifier.issn1321-8719en_US


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