Why Would They Falsely Confess? Why on earth would an innocent person falsely confess to committing a crime ? To most people，it just doesn ’t seem logical．But it is logical，say experts，if you understand what Call happen in a police interrogation（审讯）room． Under the right conditions，people’ s minds are susceptible（易受影响的）to influence，and the pressure put on suspects during police grillings （盘问）is enormous．_______（1）“The pressure is important to understand．because otherwise it’ s impossible to understand why someone would say he did something he didn’ t do．The answer is：to put an end to an uncomfortable situation that will continue until he does confess．” Developmental psychologist Allison Redlich recently conducted a laboratory determine how likely people are to confess to things they didn’t do．_______（2），The researchers then intentionally crashed the computers and accused the participants of hitting the “alt” key to see if they would sign a statement falsely taking responsibility． Redlich’ s findings clearly demonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely confess：59％ percent of the young adults in the experiment immediately confessed_______（3）．Of the l5-to 1 6-year-olds，72 percent signed confessions，as did 78 percent of the l2-to 13-year-olds． “There’s no question that young people are more at risk，”says Saul Kassin，Professor at Williams College，who has done similar studies with similar results．_______（4） Both Kassin and Redlich note that the entire “interrogation' in their experiments consisted of a simple accusation--not hours of aggressive questioning-and still，most participants falsely confessed． Because of the stress of a police interrogation，they conclude，suspects can become convinced that falsely confessing is the easiest way out of a bad situation．_______（5）