“Since 1992 the Innocence Project, an American legal charity, has used DNA evidence to help exonerate 271 people who were wrongly convicted of crimes, sometimes after they had served dozens of years in prison. But a mystery has emerged from the case reports. Despite being innocent, around a quarter of these people had confessed or pleaded guilty to the offences of which they were accused.”

People have a strange and worrying tendency to admit to things they have not, in fact, done. Researchers aim to find out why. (via theeconomist)

(via theeconomist)

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