Effects of Message-Framing and Psychopathic Personality Traits On Eliciting False Confessions in University Students
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Effects of Message-Framing and Psychopathic Personality Traits On Eliciting False Confessions in University Students
Yazar:
Zapata, Charles, author.
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9780355977493
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1 electronic resource (115 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Howard Kassinove Committee members: Richard Conti; William C. Sanderson; Mitchell L. Schare; Sergei Tsytsarev.
Özet:
A large number of studies have investigated criminal interrogation techniques and the elicitation of confessions, which are controversial topics within law enforcement. In this study, participants completed a measure of psychopathic personality traits in a room containing a supposed pile of belongings of the experimenter, including five $1 bills. Participants were accused of stealing the money and verbally prompted to confess, framed as either a gain- or loss-framed message. The gain-framed message highlighted the benefits of engaging in a confession, and the loss-framed message highlighted the consequences of not engaging in a confession. Health psychology studies have demonstrated that gain-framed messages are optimal for eliciting behaviors with little to no perceived risk, and loss-framed messages are best for eliciting behaviors with uncertain or perceived riskier outcomes. This is important to consider in the criminal justice enterprise. Psychopathy researchers have distinguished between primary and secondary psychopathy, both of which increase propensities to commit crime. Using a measure of psychopathy normed on community and university samples, university participants were divided into normal, primary psychopathy, or secondary psychopathy groups. Participants were prompted to falsely confess to the staged theft with either a gain- or loss-framed message. It was predicted that more participants in the normal category would falsely confess to the theft with a loss-framed message. More participants in the secondary psychopath category were also expected to falsely confess with a loss-framed message, but to a lesser degree than participants in the normal category. Participants in the primary psychopath category were not expected to falsely confess, when compared to participants in the normal and secondary psychopath categories, regardless of message-frame type. Results showed that the loss-framed message did not have an effect on false confessions and the interaction between a loss-framed message and psychopathic traits was not significant. The manipulation did not show an effect of a gain- or loss-framed message in this university sample. It was noted that participants were not exposed to the numerous characteristics of true interrogations. Thus, future studies would benefit from the incorporation of more natural interrogation variables when investigating the message-frame effect.
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School code: 0086
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