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根据材料,回答问题。 Why Would They Falsely Confess?
Why on earth would an innocent person falsely confess to committing a crime? To mostpeople, it just doesn't seem logical. But it is logical, say expels, if you understand what Callhappen in a police interrogation (审讯) room. Under the right conditions, people's minds aresusceptible(易受影响的) to influence, and the pressure put on suspects during policegrillings (盘问) is enormous. (46)__________ "The pressure is important to understand, becauseotherwise it's impossible to understand why someone would say he did something he didn't do.The answer is: to put an end to an uncomfortable situation that will continue until he doesconfess. " Developmental psychologist Allison Redlich recently conducted a laboratory determinehow likely people are to confess to things they didn't do.(47)__________ The researchers thenintentionally crashed the computers and accused the participants of hitting the "alt" key to see ifthey would sign a statement falsely taking responsibility.
Redlich's findings clearly demonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely confess:59 percent of the young adults in the experiment immediately confessed.(48)__________ Of the 15-to 16-year-olds,72 percent signed confessions, as did 78 percent of the 12-to 13-year-olds."There's no question that young people are more at risk," says Saul Kassin, Professor atWilliams College, who has done similar studies with similar results. (49)__________ a psychologyBoth Kassin and Redlich note that the entire "interrogation" in their experiments consisted of asimple accusation -- not hours of aggressive questioning -- and still, most participants falselyconfessed.
Because of the stress of a police interrogation, they conclude, suspects can become convinced that falsely confessing is the easiest way out of a bad situation.(50)__________
请在第__(46)__处填上正确答案。 A.In her experiment, participants were seated at computers and told not to hit the "alt"key, because doing so would crash the systems.
B."In some ways," says Kassin, "false confession becomes a rational decision. "
C."It's a little like somebody's working on them with a dental (牙齿的) drill," says Franklin Zimring, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
D."But adults are highly vulnerable too. "
E.How could an innocent person admit to doing something he didn't do?
F.Redlich also found that the younger the participant, the more likely a false confession.
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