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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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.
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