The conducted experiment of Horselenberg et al. (2003) is a replication of the Kassin and Kiechel (1996) findings. They used the classic computer crash paradigm wherein they falsely accused the participants of touching the forbidden keys and used a pseudo-eyewitness who insisted they saw the participants touched the forbidden keys. With all the variables they explored: individual difference in compliance, suggestibility, fantasy proneness, dissociation, and cognitive failures; their findings suggest that only fantasy proneness has a relationship with false confessions. The result of this experiment shows that false confessions really occur; and that it is easy to make the participants confess because of the pseudo-eyewitness as evidence that made them internalize they really had touched the forbidden keys that resulted to the computer crash.
