Saul Kassin

Yes, it is. The opening predicate of a police interrogation is to isolate the subject, bring them in and put them in a room alone in our station and no friends, no family members, no phones, preferably in a soundproof room where they can't hear voices and phones out there so that they're feeling isolated and alone.

Yes, it is. The opening predicate of a police interrogation is to isolate the subject, bring them in and put them in a room alone in our station and no friends, no family members, no phones, preferably in a soundproof room where they can't hear voices and phones out there so that they're feeling isolated and alone.

My God, social psychologists, health psychologists know that people need people and that that need to belong and that need to affiliate especially is true under stress. And that when people have social support present, they're able to tolerate more pain. Physiologically, they show levels of relaxation while under stress. It's important for people to have that.

My God, social psychologists, health psychologists know that people need people and that that need to belong and that need to affiliate especially is true under stress. And that when people have social support present, they're able to tolerate more pain. Physiologically, they show levels of relaxation while under stress. It's important for people to have that.

My God, social psychologists, health psychologists know that people need people and that that need to belong and that need to affiliate especially is true under stress. And that when people have social support present, they're able to tolerate more pain. Physiologically, they show levels of relaxation while under stress. It's important for people to have that.

And yet, when you look at what happens in the interrogation room, the first thing is you are isolated and you are away from the people you know. The other thing they don't get, in an interrogation, police are characterizing the crime. They're characterizing the evidence. They may be lying about the evidence. If you're alone in the room, you have no external checks on that reality.

And yet, when you look at what happens in the interrogation room, the first thing is you are isolated and you are away from the people you know. The other thing they don't get, in an interrogation, police are characterizing the crime. They're characterizing the evidence. They may be lying about the evidence. If you're alone in the room, you have no external checks on that reality.

And yet, when you look at what happens in the interrogation room, the first thing is you are isolated and you are away from the people you know. The other thing they don't get, in an interrogation, police are characterizing the crime. They're characterizing the evidence. They may be lying about the evidence. If you're alone in the room, you have no external checks on that reality.

You can't turn to someone else and say, is that true? Do you know if that's true? And so you're not getting additional information. So you're lacking both the support that comes with people and the additional information that comes with people.

You can't turn to someone else and say, is that true? Do you know if that's true? And so you're not getting additional information. So you're lacking both the support that comes with people and the additional information that comes with people.

You can't turn to someone else and say, is that true? Do you know if that's true? And so you're not getting additional information. So you're lacking both the support that comes with people and the additional information that comes with people.

The average interrogation lasts about an hour or two. Pretty much captures 90-some percent of interrogations. When you look at the archives of wrongful convictions where time records are kept, and I emphasize that because often time records are not kept. The length of interrogation is six hours, eight hours, 10 hours, 12 hours, an average of 16 hours, sometimes up to 24 and more.

The average interrogation lasts about an hour or two. Pretty much captures 90-some percent of interrogations. When you look at the archives of wrongful convictions where time records are kept, and I emphasize that because often time records are not kept. The length of interrogation is six hours, eight hours, 10 hours, 12 hours, an average of 16 hours, sometimes up to 24 and more.

The average interrogation lasts about an hour or two. Pretty much captures 90-some percent of interrogations. When you look at the archives of wrongful convictions where time records are kept, and I emphasize that because often time records are not kept. The length of interrogation is six hours, eight hours, 10 hours, 12 hours, an average of 16 hours, sometimes up to 24 and more.

False confessions happen over time. Partly that is a function of sleep deprivation and deprivation of other needs states. But there are no time limits set on an interrogation in the United States. And what happens over time is a person becomes deprived of food, sleep, sometimes bathroom breaks.

False confessions happen over time. Partly that is a function of sleep deprivation and deprivation of other needs states. But there are no time limits set on an interrogation in the United States. And what happens over time is a person becomes deprived of food, sleep, sometimes bathroom breaks.

False confessions happen over time. Partly that is a function of sleep deprivation and deprivation of other needs states. But there are no time limits set on an interrogation in the United States. And what happens over time is a person becomes deprived of food, sleep, sometimes bathroom breaks.

Certainly they are deprived of social support, as we talked about earlier, which is in some ways as fundamental a need as anything else. And so what you find is that one proxy for a false confession, if you show me a confession that lasted, the interrogation that lasted 16 hours, right away I say that person was at some level of risk for that alone.

Certainly they are deprived of social support, as we talked about earlier, which is in some ways as fundamental a need as anything else. And so what you find is that one proxy for a false confession, if you show me a confession that lasted, the interrogation that lasted 16 hours, right away I say that person was at some level of risk for that alone.

Certainly they are deprived of social support, as we talked about earlier, which is in some ways as fundamental a need as anything else. And so what you find is that one proxy for a false confession, if you show me a confession that lasted, the interrogation that lasted 16 hours, right away I say that person was at some level of risk for that alone.