Those Who Protest Too Much are Seen as Guilty
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 5 (1) , 44-47
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616727900500109
Abstract
160 students listened to a tape recording in which a target person was or was not accused of damaging a typewriter. The target person either denied damaging the typewriter or admitted damaging it, or the tape was stopped before his response was heard. Observers rated a target person who denied having damaged the typewriter as more likely to be guilty when his denial occurred in the absence of an accusation than when his denial followed an accusation.Keywords
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