Information-Gathering Approaches Produce More Reliable Confessions Compared with Accusatorial Approaches

The source article found differences in rates of true and false confessions when comparing information-gathering interrogation approaches with accusatorial approaches. Information‐gathering approaches can be more effective in eliciting true confessions from guilty suspects and decreasing false confessions from innocent suspects. Accusatorial interrogation techniques such as lying, bluffing about evidence, and minimization increased the number of false confessions and decreased the number of true confessions compared to information-gathering approaches.