A5017863267- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
- Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychology of Social Influence
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Criminal Law and Evidence
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- International Law and Human Rights
- Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Statistics Education and Methodologies
- Educational Assessment and Pedagogy
- Child Abuse and Trauma
Allegheny College
2022-2023
Central Michigan University
2017-2019
Author(s): Mindthoff, Amelia; Evans, Jacqueline R; Perez, Gissel; Woestehoff, Skye A; Olaguez, Alma P; Klemfuss, J Zoe; Normile, Christopher J; Scherr, Kyle C; Carlucci, Marianna E; Carol, Rolando N; Meissner, Christian Michael, Stephen W; Russano, Melissa B; Stocks, Eric L; Vallano, Jonathan Woody, William Douglas
Alcohol-intoxicated suspects’ confessions are admissible in U.S. courts; however, it is unknown how jurors evaluate such confessions. Study 1 assessed potential jurors’ perceptions of intoxication interrogative contexts. Many respondents were unaware that questioning intoxicated suspects and presenting subsequent court legal, generally reported they would rely less on than sober In 2, read a case about defendant who had confessed or not while intoxicated. Participants an perceived the...
Research has identified numerous factors that influence suspects during police interrogations. However, the dynamics between individuals' physiologic reactivity and their confession decision making is in its infancy. This research sought to advance interrogation literature by examining relationships among different tactics, suspects' resistance confess, a mock interrogation. After manipulating innocence guilt, participants (N = 154) were accused interrogated using either minimization or...
Most suspects waive the guaranteed protections that interrogation rights afford them against police intimidation. One factor thought to motivate suspects' inclination their stems from acquiescence bias whereby mindlessly comply with interrogators' requests. However, research bearing on phenomenology of innocence has demonstrated power innocents' mindset, which could some innocent knowingly (instead complying). To test these ideas, participants (N = 178) were (a) rightfully (guilty) or...
Individuals often tend to irrationally blame victims for their plight. This research incorporated a bounded rationality framework examine first-person perspectives (rather than third-person) of both victims’ and nonvictims’ perceptions judgments acquaintance stranger sexual violence. Upon completing individual difference measures, including just-world belief assessment, participants ( N = 296) were randomly assigned read scenario in which the vignette victim was either acquainted with or had...
School administrators who investigate student misconduct are offered training in accusatorial-style interrogation techniques that frequently used the U.S. to interview and interrogate adult criminal suspects. We review research showing use of such accusatorial be problematic, especially with juveniles, as its coercive nature can lead an innocent individual falsely confess. Highlighting on adolescents' cognitive social immaturities, we specifically discuss unique challenges present when...
Little empirical research has examined postconviction processes associated with the unique legal events of release from incarceration and official exoneration. Across various models, we tested influence risk factors wrongful convictions (false confessions, faulty or misleading forensic evidence, inadequate defense, mistaken eyewitness identifications, misconduct, perjury) relevant alternative (e.g., presence DNA, false guilty pleas, race) on exoneration process, a particular focus role...