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Phoebe Ellsworth: Truth and Advocacy
APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Address delivered May 2016 in Chicago at the 28th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science.
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Rethinking the Rules for Police Interrogations
Undark: ON SEPTEMBER 3, 2006, a 16-year-old boy named Bobby Johnson confessed to murdering a retiree in New Haven, Connecticut. In his statement, Johnson said he borrowed a gun from his cousin. Then he and
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Why do police have such out-of-date psychological theories?
Aeon: What do police officers need to know to effectively do their jobs? They must ask the right questions to piece together the crimes that occurred, and make sure they don’t take advantage of the
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The Role of Predictive Analytics in Policing
As I have pointed out to members of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, the major omission not only of that report, but of also the article presented in December 2015 in Psychological
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Replication Report Looks at Verbal Aspect Effects on Perceived Intent
A multilab replication project found no evidence that the verb form used to describe a crime influences the way people judge criminal intent, in contrast to previously published findings. The Registered Replication Report (RRR), published
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Feeling sleepy? You may confess to a crime you didn’t commit
Science: Didn’t get your 40 winks last night? Better not get yourself arrested, or you may admit to a crime you didn’t commit. False confessions are surprisingly easy to extract from people simply by keeping
