FALSE CONFESSION

Suggestibility in forensic psycholegal settings can have a dramatic impact on the outcome of a case and potentially serious consequences for the defendant, including being wrongly accused, wrongly convicted, and wrongly incarcerated. A vulnerable interviewee is susceptible to interrogative suggestibility, compliance, and acquiescence, and may end up saying all kinds of problematic things, including self-incriminating statements; false confession; inaccurate or unreliable testimony; inaccurate recall; confabulation; and inaccurate, under-, or over-reporting. Select one of the following topics related to suggestibility in forensic psychological and legal settings on which to focus for this Discussion: Self-incriminating statements False confession Inaccurate testimony Unreliable eyewitness testimony Inaccurate recall of mental state Confabulation Inaccurate reporting Underreporting Over reporting Use the library to find at least one recent (within the past 5 years), peer-reviewed journal article related to the topic you selected. I would like to use topic False Confession