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By 2010, the evidence about how interrogations can go wrong had become so compelling that Kassin and several colleagues from the U.S. and U.K. wrote an American Psychological Association white paper warning about the risk of coercion.

Researchers have been hard at work studying how it is that innocent people sometimes go to prison for crimes they did not commit. A recent report documented that in 2015 there were a record number of exonerations in the United States, as many as one in four involving false confessions. Here are three pathways to a false confession.