It’s no secret that where you sit makes all the difference when it comes to witnessing an event. The same is true when it comes to video recording of interrogations. What private investigators often are aware of (but the public not so much) is how the placement of the camera and positioning of suspects and interrogators can have a huge effect on the viewer and how he or she interprets everything from their perception of voluntariness to guilt.
Learn more about camera perspective bias and how to avoid it in your interrogation rooms from iRecord.
Studies in which researchers have used evaluations to measure how people respond to videotaped confessions have revealed significant results.
The three camera perspective biases that can be used include:
What is the impact of camera manipulation?
Here was what a 1992 study The Potential for Bias in Videotaped Confessions found:
To read more about camera perspective, check out the following two studies:
Accountability and the Camera Perspective Bias in Videotaped Confessions
Further Evidence of a Robust Point-of-View Bias in Videotaped Confessions
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