From the University of Kent press release via HealthCanal: New research published by a team of international psychologists has shown that people can suppress incriminating memories and thereby avoid detection in brain activity guilt detection…
From the UNC Charlotte press release via ScienceDaily: One way to understand what motivates and deters burglars is to ask them. UNC Charlotte researcher Joseph Kuhns from the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology did…
From the University of Adelaide press release via HealthCanal: University of Adelaide researchers are studying the reliability of eyewitness identification testimony in criminal cases in the hopes of improving evidence from witnesses and leading to…
From the Duke University press release via EurekAlert!: A new study conducted by The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., shows that neuroimaging data can predict the likelihood of whether a criminal will reoffend following…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Eyewitness identification evidence is often persuasive in the courtroom and yet current eyewitness identification tests often fail to pick the culprit. Even worse, these tests sometimes result…
From the British Medical Journal press release: Tools designed to predict an individual’s risk of repeat offending are not sufficient on their own to inform sentencing and release or discharge decisions, concludes a study published…
From the UC Riverside press release: New research by a University of California, Riverside psychologist raises serious questions about eyewitness identification procedures that are being adopted by police departments across the United States. These new…
From the UT Dallas press release: A prison inmate’s IQ, as well as the average IQ of a prison unit, can play a role in predicting violent prison misconduct, according to a recently published UT…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: Gestures made during interviews can influence or even misinform eyewitnesses. In addition eyewitnesses are unlikely to recall the influential gestures being shown to them, new…
From the British Psychological Society (BPS) press release via AlphaGalileo: Violent offending can be associated with impaired structure and function in a number of areas of the brain. Professor Anthony Beech presents a review of…