The Psychology of Amanda Knox (2016 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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October 6, 2016
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. Today I thought I would talk about the psychology involved in the Amanda Knox case. |
| 0:07.0 | Amanda Knox. Hopefully, you've heard of her. If you haven't, you're going to learn a lot about her. |
| 0:11.4 | When this case was active in the media, I wasn't really paying attention to the news back then in the late |
| 0:17.8 | zeros. So I barely knew anything about it until I looked into it this week. I remember |
| 0:22.7 | back then hearing bits and pieces of the case in the news. I remember hearing there was this |
| 0:27.9 | young woman from Seattle involved in some sort of drug-induced satanic sex ring orgy thing |
| 0:35.8 | and that someone was murdered in Italy. And I remember thinking, wow, |
| 0:39.4 | sounds like a monster. And then every now and then, I would hear Amanda Knox come up in the news |
| 0:45.6 | again. But it just didn't really interest me for some reason. It just seemed like tabloid crap and |
| 0:51.0 | didn't really pay attention to it. And then this week, I watched the new documentary on |
| 0:56.2 | Netflix. It's actually pretty good. It's not amazing, you know, in terms of, it's not like making |
| 1:00.9 | a murder or anything, but it's, you know, worth a watch. And it's just, I think it's just like |
| 1:05.1 | an hour and a half or something. So it's not a huge commitment. But it really explains the |
| 1:10.1 | whole story in a concise manner, in a compelling manner. |
| 1:13.4 | They have a lot of great interviews and visuals and stuff. |
| 1:16.3 | Well, that's what I'm going to talk about today, not the documentary, but the entire Amanda Knox case. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm going to review the facts of the case, and I'm going to talk about some of the societal implications, sexism, sex and violence, media. |
| 1:32.4 | And then I'm going to end with a discussion regarding the research and psychology of false |
| 1:37.1 | confessions because there's a lot of research on false confessions. This is the Psychology in Seattle |
| 1:43.4 | podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a |
| 1:46.3 | therapist and a professor. So the documentary opens up with Amanda Knox saying something quite compelling, |
| 1:53.8 | actually. There's a number of interviews with her that I think are quite moving. And she says, |
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