2013
DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000021
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False alibi corroboration: Witnesses lie for suspects who seem innocent, whether they like them or not.

Abstract: To test the commonly held assumption that individuals who share a personal relationship are more likely to lie for one another than are strangers, 81 undergraduate students were given the opportunity to either corroborate or refute a confederate's alibi. In either a "friendship-enhancing" or a "stranger-maintaining" condition, confederate-participant pairs completed tasks under the pretext of a problem-solving study. During the experimental session, the confederate briefly left the testing room; upon her retur… Show more

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“…Contrary to predictions, however, increasing the degree to which a participant liked a confederate did not increase the likelihood that the former would corroborate the confederate's false alibi. This manipulation, and resultant finding, was a direct replication from the work of Marion and Burke (). The null findings obtained in the original study were largely unexpected given the existing literature on the psychology of alibis, which suggests that those who are close to one another report being more willing to lie for one another (e.g., Hosch et al, ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 62%
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“…Contrary to predictions, however, increasing the degree to which a participant liked a confederate did not increase the likelihood that the former would corroborate the confederate's false alibi. This manipulation, and resultant finding, was a direct replication from the work of Marion and Burke (). The null findings obtained in the original study were largely unexpected given the existing literature on the psychology of alibis, which suggests that those who are close to one another report being more willing to lie for one another (e.g., Hosch et al, ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 62%
“…The first “problem‐solving” task also served as a friendship‐enhancing activity for those in the applicable condition: The participant and confederate completed an 8 min collaborative word‐generation activity. In keeping with the Marion and Burke () manipulation to increase perceptions of similarity and feelings of communality, the confederate pretended to be in the same psychology class as the participant and invited him or her to a study group for an upcoming exam. The intent was to increase interaction and to create the expectation that the participant would interact with the confederate again in the near future.…”
Section: Studymentioning
confidence: 99%
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