We insist that we could never be induced by artful interrogators to confess to a crime that we did not commit (which may be correct) and that those who do offer false confessions must be dim-witted, weak, or plagued by a guilty conscience (which generally is not correct). Such misguided emphasis on the “dispositions” of the relevant actors, as Lewin 1931 observed long ago, represents a failing of lay psychology, in somewhat the same way that “Aristotelian” conceptions regarding the movement of objects (as opposed to Newtonian physics, which recognizes the role of forces between objects) erroneously attributed such movement to inherent properties of those objects rather than the forces acting on and between them.