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CSI (Crime Scene Induction): Creating False Memories of Committing Crime
Stephen B Porter1, Alysha T Baker1
1Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|December 8, 2015
Abstract:
We describe two merging lines of empirical inquiry: entire false memories for autobiographical events and false confessions. A recent study showed that people can be led to remember, and confess to, perpetrating serious crimes that never occurred when confronted with suggestive interview tactics commonly used in police interrogations.