title: The interrogation decision-making model: A general theoretical framework for confessions.
abstract: This article presents a new model of confessions referred to as theinterrogation decision-making model. This model provides a theoretical umbrella with which to understand and analyze suspects' decisions to deny or confess guilt in the context of a custodial interrogation. The model draws upon expected utility theory to propose a mathematical account of the psychological mechanisms that not only underlie suspects' decisions to deny or confess guilt at any specific point during an interrogation, but also how confession decisions can change over time. Findings from the extant literature pertaining to confessions are considered to demonstrate how the model offers a comprehensive and integrative framework for organizing a range of effects within a limited set of model parameters. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Program, University of Nevada.
authors.forename: Yueran
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Iowa State University.
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guyll
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Iowa State University.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Madon
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D057237:Criminals / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D035846:Law Enforcement; D008960:Models, Psychological; D014342:Truth Disclosure