Check out our article published in LHB examining jurors’ legal decisions of autistic juvenile defendants. This was my first research project as an assistant professor so it’s a huge accomplishment to see it finally published.

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#Participants invited for #research (18+ Canadian citizens/residents). The 10-minute study involves sharing opinions on Canada’s legal system, reading a news article and answering questions. Interested? Please click the #survey link/scan the QR code uoitsocialscience.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Our lab’s first study is published in @pppl-journal.bsky.social! We review definitions used in psych & law to describe those wrongly involved in the legal system. doi.org/10.1037/law0000468

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Hello Psych & Law folks! I have an undergrad student interested in risk assessment of sex offenders and jury decision-making. Does anyone have any paper recommendations or know folks who focus on this topic. Thanks in advance!

The peer review process, a snapshot

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🚨 HUGE NEWS: Indiana has passed its first-ever eyewitness ID reform bill!

S.B. 141 — championed by the Innocence Project & Notre Dame Exoneration Justice Clinic — tackles eyewitness misidentification, a top cause of wrongful conviction.

A major step forward. 🖤

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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Any friends here teach high school #psychology? APA asked me to write a short article for high school teachers about legal psychology. What are students interested in learning more about: Confessions? Eyewitness testimony? Juries? Expert testimony? Judicial decision-making?

Let me know!

Update I got all the books! 😊

If you had professional development funds that you needed to spend what would you buy? Any book recommendations?

I wrote an article (which later formed the basis of my book, Smoke but No Fire) about people wrongly convicted of crimes that never happened in the first place. Over one-third of all known exonerations of innocent people are in no-crime wrongful conviction cases.

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Now recruiting doctoral students! Click here to apply: www.uml.edu/fahss/psycho... #psychlaw #childmaltreatment

New followers might be interested to know many Law & Mental Health Series webinars are freely available on our YouTube channel. Literally hundreds of hours of publicly available info from mental health, legal, & criminology experts!

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Excited that our new paper on essentialism in the criminal legal system made SSRN’s top ten lists for both Crime/Psych and Crim. Thanks to @maddymillar.bsky.social for leading our work (w/ @anthonyperillo.bsky.social and many others).

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