In a study by Lassiter and his colleagues (2007),they found that when judges and police officers viewed tapes of interrogations,they were more likely to find the confession of a suspect voluntary when the camera focused only on the suspect.Why?

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The perceptual salience of the suspect triggered a defensive bias, where the judges and police officers were more likely to attribute the suspect's behavior solely to their own free will rather than external factors such as the interrogation tactics used by the police. By focusing solely on the suspect, these individuals were more likely to see them as the cause of the confession rather than the situational pressures in the interrogation room.

In a Study by Lassiter and His Colleagues (2007),they Found