The Voluntariness of Voluntary Consent: Consent Searches and the Psychology of Compliance by Roseanna Sommers, Vanessa K. Bohns :: SSRN

In two preregistered laboratory studies, we approached a total of 209 participants (“Experi- encers”) with a highly intrusive request: to unlock their password-protected smartphones and hand them over to an experimenter to search through while they waited in another room. A sepa- rate 194 participants (“Forecasters”) were brought into the lab and a

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