Comply at False Confessions

In the Salem witch trials, some suspects who failed to confess were executed. Given a choice between making a false confession and being put to death, many chose to lie about their guilt. These types of cases go back throughout history. The same thing couldn't happen today, couldn't? You know, I was teaching at Williams College. It's a liberal arts college in Massachusetts. And I was preparing for classes in the fall, when this producer called saying she wanted to show me something confidential. She said, it's the Central Park Jogger. They're not even thinking about long term consequences. But they may have come to believe it's in their better interest to confess than to deny