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false confession: a standalone construct

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falseconfession1 CONSTRUCTFalse confessionKASSIN · LEGAL PSYCHOLOGY

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Legal psychology

an admission of guilt to a crime the person did not commit, arising through compliance, internalization or confabulation.

In legal psychology, false confession refers to an admission of guilt to a crime the person did not commit, arising through compliance, internalization or confabulation. This meaning comes from Kassin (1996) in Psychological Science.[1]

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  1. Kassin, S. M., & Kiechel, K. L. (1996). The Social Psychology of False Confessions: Compliance, Internalization, and Confabulation. Psychological Science, 7(3), 125-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1996.tb00344.x

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