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  • Laypersons often lack knowledge of false confession risk factors.
  • Judicial instructions may aid jurors in assessing confession evidence reliability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the effectiveness of judicial instructions on jurors' evaluation of confession evidence.
  • To determine if instructions mitigate the impact of unreliable confessions.

Main Methods:

  • Participants were randomly assigned to conditions with varying confession quality and presence of instructions on coercive interrogation.
  • Evaluated verdict decisions, perceptions of evidence strength, and confession voluntariness.

Main Results:

  • Instructions increased sensitivity to interrogation quality, influencing verdict decisions.
  • In low-quality interrogations, instructions led participants to completely discount the confession.
  • Instructions altered perceptions of evidence strength and confession voluntariness.

Conclusions:

  • Research-based instructions on coercive interrogation techniques are effective safeguards.
  • Instructions can help prevent the overreliance on potentially unreliable confession evidence.