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Evidence Evidence
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Deception Detection Deception Detection
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Training To Detect Deception Training To Detect Deception
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Are There Individual “Wizards” of Lie Detection? Are There Individual “Wizards” of Lie Detection?
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Situational Influences On Lie-Detection Performance Situational Influences On Lie-Detection Performance
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Police Interrogations and Confessions Police Interrogations and Confessions
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Dispositional Risk Factors Dispositional Risk Factors
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Situational Risk Factors Situational Risk Factors
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The Phenomenology of Innocence The Phenomenology of Innocence
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Situational And Dispositional Risk Factors As Sufficient Situational And Dispositional Risk Factors As Sufficient
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Alibi Evidence Alibi Evidence
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Eyewitness Identifications Eyewitness Identifications
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Estimator Variables Estimator Variables
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System Variables System Variables
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Lineup Composition Lineup Composition
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Lineup Instructions Lineup Instructions
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Lineup Presentation Lineup Presentation
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Lineup Administration Lineup Administration
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Postdictors of Witness Accuracy Postdictors of Witness Accuracy
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Witness Confidence Witness Confidence
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Witness Description Accuracy and Consistency Witness Description Accuracy and Consistency
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Identification Speed Identification Speed
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Trial by Jury Trial by Jury
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Jury Selection Jury Selection
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Scientific Jury Selection Scientific Jury Selection
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Bias In Jury Selection Bias In Jury Selection
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Other Procedural Issues in Jury Decision-Making Other Procedural Issues in Jury Decision-Making
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Jury Size Jury Size
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Decision Rule Decision Rule
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Evidentiary Issues in Jury Decision-Making Evidentiary Issues in Jury Decision-Making
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Nonevidentiary Issues in Jury Decision-Making Nonevidentiary Issues in Jury Decision-Making
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Pretrial Publicity Pretrial Publicity
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Inadmissible Evidence Inadmissible Evidence
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Jury Nullification Jury Nullification
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Science, Common Sense, and the Role of Forensic Psychology in the Courts Science, Common Sense, and the Role of Forensic Psychology in the Courts
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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30 Forensic Personality and Social Psychology
Get accessSaul Kassin, Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA
Margaret Bull Kovera, Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
Forensic psychology is a term used to describe a broad range of research topics and applications that address human behavior in the legal system. Personality and social psychologists are among those who have contributed to our understanding of individual differences in performance (e.g., among liars and lie detectors, crime suspects, witnesses, and jurors) and situational influences (e.g., effects of training on lie detection, the false evidence ploy on false confessions, police feedback on eyewitnesses, and inadmissible testimony on jurors) as well as the role that psychologists have played within the legal system. In this chapter, we discuss how individual difference and situational variables contribute to the reliability of different types of evidence (e.g., confessions, eyewitnesses, alibis) introduced in court as well as how jurors make decisions about the evidence presented at trial.
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