Which of the following recommendations have social psychologists made to the legal profession?

a. The police should try as hard as they can to get suspects to confess to a crime, because if the suspects confess, they are surely guilty.
b. Lawyers should present witnesses in the sequence they think will have the greatest impact, even if this means that events of the case are described out of order.
c. The police should videotape all interrogations and make sure that the camera angle shows both the interrogator and the suspect.
d. Hypnosis is a useful way for producing accurate eyewitness memories.


Answer: C

Psychology

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