#APLS2024
Things I found out I’m known for in the forensic psych world that aren’t really part of my job (thanks to #APLS2024):

🖋Signing reviews
📜Conference haikus
🇵🇷Making coquito
🤭Giggling w @kukucka.bsky.social
March 28, 2024 at 11:53 PM
My recent conference highlighted how much twitter engagement in my field has fallen & how Bluesky has dropped the ball as an alternative. Live #APLS2024 tweeting plummeted, yet I see no new forensic accounts on Bluesky.

We have much social media sharing to offer but little community to do it well.
March 27, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Had such a lovely time presenting, postering, and meeting new people at #APLS2024 :) A wonderful 1st in-person conference experience ❤️🧠
December 3, 2024 at 8:54 PM
What an epic week.
I miss you all already!
Hasta luego... 🇵🇷
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Empty lobby means that’s a wrap on #APLS2024! Sam & I are happy to take your compliments but please direct complaints to next year’s co-chairs 😉

On a serious note, it’s been a privilege to organize my favorite conference and spend it with my favorite people. Until Puerto Rico!
November 18, 2024 at 12:11 AM
I wish I could express, in proper haiku fashion, just how lovely it was to see folks, old friends and new, at #APLS2024 … but I’m afraid my travel-weary brain can’t hack it. Maybe after a good night’s sleep. #PsychLaw
March 24, 2024 at 3:36 AM
We have 2 talks on
race considerations in
police psych evals:

What clinicians *do*
to assess for racism,
as well as their *views*

#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
March 23, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Smith (@IowaStateU):
Time to abandon
AFTE source opinions. Just
report what you see! 🔫
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Smith (@IowaStateU):
Firearms experts
say "inconclusive" more for
non-matching items,
so innocent folks
are denied of info that
would exculpate them.
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Guarnera (@UVA):
Using VR to
make folks feel like they're being
interrogated!
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Guarnera (@UVA):
Not much research on
how coercion FEELS versus
how coercion LOOKS.
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Scherr (@CMUniversity):
False confessors have
harder time getting relief
and face more stigma.
Need to change statutes
that prevent them from getting
post-release support.
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Though clinicians feel
Their reports are worse, judges
don’t see it that way.

#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
March 23, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Never work weekends?
Went from over half of us
To just 8%!

Survey data of
Comp evaluators pre-
And post- Trueblood case.

(Impact of comp crisis on evaluator workload)

Robert Crosby, Office of Forensic MH Services

#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
March 23, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Biggest perceived keys
For less burnout: less cases!
And less admin hours.

#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
March 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Kassin (@JJ_PsychLawPhD):
Minimization
looks benign but is harmful,
like a Trojan horse 🐴
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Cleary (@VCU):
Courts are embracing
science of adolescence
(but not fully yet).
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Cleary (@VCU):
New paper highlights
more vulnerabilities
for false confession--
including trauma,
autism, ADHD,
and many others.
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Slight majority
Of forensic psychs report
Overwork, burnout.

Jacqueline Means, office of Forensic MH Services
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
March 23, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Core comp info is
What judges truly want in
Competence info.

(Survey of WA judges)
Jessica Hart, Office of Forensic Services

#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
March 23, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Kassin (@JJ_PsychLawPhD):
False confessions pose
a threat to public safety.
How to prevent them?
Mandate recording,
ban lying, provide counsel,
and revise statutes.
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Kassin (@JJ_PsychLawPhD):
Big developments
in the interrogation
world since 2010:
More states addressing
recording and deception
(and, of course, research).
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Froehlich (@uwyo):
Agreeableness
didn't change jurors' views of
firearms expert.
#APLS2024
November 23, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Stress induction seemed
To help challenge analysts
More than hinder them

(Fingerprint analysis study)

Mohammed Almazrouei, Yale
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
March 23, 2024 at 3:22 PM