Fascinating study of how you can get people to admit to remembering committing crimes they didn't commit.
'…the key takeaway is that by the end of the third interview, after a bunch of carefully crafted nudging to do their best to remember, a full 70 percent of the students said, "Yep, I committed that crime when I was younger," and they "volunteered … detailed false account[s]" of those crimes.'
Memory is pretty weird.
Something to remember next time you hear about confessions from folk (esp. ones that were questioned at length, in multiple sessions, without an attorney present).
It’s Very Easy to Implant False Crime Memories — Science of Us
After three interviews with researchers, 70 percent of study participants were wrongly convinced they’d committed theft or assault during their teen years.
