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Saul Kassin

Forensic Psychology

Saul Kassin is an American psychologist, distinguished professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and professor emeritus at Williams College, recognized for pioneering the scientific study of false confessions. He established a widely used framework distinguishing voluntary, compliant and internalized false confessions, and his research examines why innocent people confess under police interrogation. He has advocated for mandatory electronic recording of interrogations and has worked with the Innocence Project on wrongful conviction cases, earning the American Psychological Association's 2017 award for distinguished contributions to psychology in the public interest.

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  • Studies Conducted: Kassin and Kiechel's False Confession Experiment, body text, false confessions research section
    Kassin and Kiechel created the now-famous computer crash experiment in which they used the false evidence ploy to induce innocent college students to confess that they had tampered with a computer, causing it to crash.
  • In Branch: Social Psychology, Article text
    From 1974 to 1978, he attended the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, where he received his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology and studied attribution theory with Charles A.
  • In Branch: Personality Psychology, Article text
    From 1974 to 1978, he attended the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, where he received his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology and studied attribution theory with Charles A.
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