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power of confession evidence: a standalone construct

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Legal psychology

the outsized influence of a confession on verdicts compared with other evidence, even when it was coerced.

In legal psychology, power of confession evidence refers to the outsized influence of a confession on verdicts compared with other evidence, even when it was coerced. This meaning comes from Kassin (1997) in Law and Human Behavior.[1]

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References

Kassin, S. M., & Neumann, K. (1997). On the power of confession evidence: An experimental test of the fundamental difference hypothesis. Law and Human Behavior, 21(5), 469-484. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1024871622490

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