confession
Sign in to saveAlso known as admission, acknowledgement, self-disclosure, truth disclosure
thumb|Confession of Love by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicts a subject confessing feelings that had been concealed up to that point.
Research
1,452 papers- Confession at Bedside.JAMA oncology · 2021
- The effect of confession evidence on jurors' verdict decisions: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Law and human behavior · 2024
- A Confession for the End.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021
- An interviewer's confession.Journal of vascular surgery · 2022
- Deluded confession: Response to Kishor Patwardhan.Indian journal of medical ethics · 2023
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thumb|Confession of Love by Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicts a subject confessing feelings that had been concealed up to that point.
A confession is a statement – made by a person or by a group of people – acknowledging some personal fact that the person (or the group) would ostensibly prefer to keep hidden. The term presumes that the speaker is providing information that they believe the other party is not already aware of, and is frequently associated with an admission of a moral or legal wrong:
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