Saul M. Kassin

Police interviewing and interrogation: A self-report survey of police practices and beliefs (2008)

Kassin, Saul M, Leo, Richard A, Meissner, Christian A, Richman, Kimberly D, Colwell, Lori H, Leach, Amy-May, ...

By questionnaire, 631 police investigators reported on their interrogation beliefs and practices--the first such survey ever conducted. Overall, participants estimated that they were 77% accurate at...

Investigating true and false confessions within a novel experimental paradigm (2005)

Russano, Melissa B, Meissner, Christian A, Narchet, Fadia M, Kassin, Saul M

The primary goal of the current study was to develop a novel experimental paradigm with which to study the influence of psychologically-based interrogation techniques on the likelihood of true and...

"I'd know a false confession if I saw one": A comparative study of college students and police investigators (2005)

Kassin, Saul M, Meissner, Christian A, Norwick, Rebecca J

College students and police investigators watched or listened to ten prison inmates confessing to crimes. Half the confessions were true accounts; half were false--concocted for the study. Consistent...

He's guilty!: Investigator bias in judgments of truth and deception (2002)

Meissner, Christian A, Kassin, Saul M

Detecting deception is an inherently difficult task, but one that plays a critical role for law enforcement investigators in the interrogation room. In general, research has failed to indicate that...