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Videotaped Interrogations: Does a Dual-Camera Perspective Produce Unbiased and Accurate Evaluations?

Snyder, Celeste J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1187137203

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2007, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Psychology (Arts and Sciences).
Although research demonstrates that the least biased camera-perspective for filming interrogations and confessions is to focus the camera on the detective, police prefer to focus on the suspect. A potential compromise is a dual-camera perspective wherein the full faces of both the suspect and interrogator are presented in a split-screen format simultaneously. Results from Study 1 suggest that the dual-camera perspective eliminates observers’ tendency to judge videotaped confessions as more voluntary and the suspect more guilty compared to the suspect-focus perspective. However, Study 2 results suggest that observers less accurately identify true and false confessions using the dual-camera perspective than observers exposed to an interrogator-focus videotape, an audiotape, or a written transcript. Though a dual-camera perspective eliminates the camera perspective bias, it is not an appropriate compromise between the detective- and suspect-focus formats as it does not improve observers’ ability to accurately distinguish true from false confessions.
G. Lassiter (Advisor)
64 p.
Psychology, Social
camera perspective; confession evidence; interrogations; guilt; voluntariness

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  • Snyder, C. J. (2007). Videotaped Interrogations: Does a Dual-Camera Perspective Produce Unbiased and Accurate Evaluations? [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1187137203

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Snyder, Celeste. Videotaped Interrogations: Does a Dual-Camera Perspective Produce Unbiased and Accurate Evaluations? 2007. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1187137203.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Snyder, Celeste. "Videotaped Interrogations: Does a Dual-Camera Perspective Produce Unbiased and Accurate Evaluations?" Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1187137203

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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