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 (i.e. when the camera focuses only on the suspect) triggers the correspondence bias, which refers to the tendency to attribute someone's behavior to their personality traits or disposition rather than situational factors. In this case, the judges and police officers may be more likely to believe that the suspect voluntarily confessed because they are focusing only on the suspect and not considering the situational factors that may have influenced the confession.

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