Why Would They Falsely Confess Why on earth would an innocent person falsely confess to committing a crime To most people, it just doesn't seem logical. But it is logical, say experts, if you understand what can happen in a police interrogation （审讯） room. Under the right conditions, people's minds are susceptible （易受影响的） to influence,and the pressure put on suspects during police grillings （盘问） is enormous.______（46） 'The pressure is important to understand, because otherwise it's impossible to understand why someone would say he did something he didn't do. The answer is: to put an end to an uncomfortable situation that will continue until he does confess.' Developmental psychologist Allison Redlich recently conducted a laboratory study to determine how likely people are to confess to things they didn't do.______（47） The researchers then intentionally crashed the computers and accused the participants of hitting the 'alt' key to see if they would sign a statement falsely taking responsibility. Redlich's findings clearly demonstrate how easy it can be to get people to falsely confess: 59 percent of the young adults in the experiment immediately confessed.______（48） Of the 15- to 16-year-olds, 72 percent signed confessions, as did 78 percent of the 12- to 13-year-olds. 'There's no question that young people are more at risk,' says Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at Williams College, who has done similar studies with similar results.______（49） Both Kassin and Redlich note that the entire 'interrogation' in their experiments consisted of a simple accusation--not hours of aggressive questioning--and still, most participants falsely confessed. Because of the stress of a police interrogation, they conclude, suspects can become convinced that falsely confessing is the easiest way out of a bad situation.______（50）