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 to be voluntary when the camera focused only on the suspect. Why?

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The perceptual salience of the suspect triggered the fundamental attribution error, meaning that because the suspect was the only one in focus, judges and police officers were more likely to attribute their behavior to internal, dispositional factors (e.g. guilt) rather than external factors (e.g. the interrogation tactics used on them).

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