Kassin, Meissner, and Norwick (2005) videotaped male inmates confessing to crimes that they did and did not commit and showed these videos to college students and police officers, asking them to judge which of the two confessions was true for ten inmates. They found that college students
a. were more accurate than police officers.
b. were less accurate than police officers.
c. and police officers were both inaccurate.
d. and police officers were highly accurate.
c
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