Expert witnesses and scholars sometimes disagree on whether suggestibility and compliance are related to people's tendency to falsely confess. Hence, the principal aim of this review was to amass the available evidence on the link between suggestibility and compliance and false confessions. We reviewed experimental data in which false confessions were experimentally evoked and suggestibility and compliance were measured. Furthermore, we reviewed field data of potential false confessions and their relationship with suggestibility and compliance. These diverse databases converge to the same conclusion. We unequivocally found that high levels of suggestibility (and to a lesser extent compliance) were associated with an increased vulnerability to falsely confess. Suggestibility measurements might be informative for expert witnesses who must evaluate the false confession potential in legal cases.

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暗示性，依从性和虚假供词之间的联系：使用实验研究和田野研究的综述

专家证人和学者有时对可暗示性和顺从性是否与人们的虚假供认倾向有关持不同意见。因此，本次审查的主要目的是收集有关暗示性和依从性与虚假供词之间的联系的现有证据。我们回顾了实验数据，在实验数据中通过实验诱发了虚假的自白，并测量了暗示性和依从性。此外，我们审查了潜在的虚假供述的现场数据及其与暗示性和遵从性的关系。这些不同的数据库可以得出相同的结论。我们明确地发现，高暗示性（和较小程度的合规性）与虚假供认的脆弱性增加有关。