Current Directions in Cognitive Science: Readings from the American Psychological Society

Lack of criminal responsibility due to “legal insanity” is probably one of the most misunderstood concepts in the criminal legal system.  Contrary to...

Societies worldwide are polarized over social justice, with identity-based status hierarchies manifesting inequalities at both individual and...

In New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, the Supreme Court acknowledged the difficulties in applying its constitutional originalism to the...

The history of public policy is littered with failures to solve large-scale social problems using interventions derived from behavioral science...

Memory issues stemming from criminal trials that involve the reliability of eyewitnesses are well-known. However, the relevance of memory to law...

Detailed descriptions of violent postictal episodes are rare. We provide evidence from an index case and from a systematic review of violent postictal...

Our perceptions of what we owe each other turn somewhat on whether we consider “another” to be “an other”—a stranger and not a friend. In this essay...

Professor Elizabeth Scott, the chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Children and the Law, has often observed that the...

Evidence law controls what information will be admissible in court and when, how, and by whom it may be presented. It shapes not only the trial...

Differences in employee evaluations due to gender bias may be small in any given rating cycle, but these small differences may accumulate to produce...

With the mainstreaming of virtual reality and 360° video, media consumption will increasingly include engaging with highly immersive messages...

Forensic evidence has become a common tool in police investigations and a familiar form of evidence at trial. Forensic scientists are trained to...

Scott Lilienfeld warned that psychology’s ideological uniformity would lead to premature closure on sensitive topics. He encouraged psychologists to...

We examined how the presentation of risk assessment results and the race of the person charged affected pretrial court actors’ recommendations to...

Given that no two acts, events, situations, and legal cases are identical, precedential constraint necessarily involves determining which two...

The practice of assessing and adjudicating competence for criminal adjudication in the United States developed largely without assistance from the U.S...

Gun-related violence and suicide in the United States are serious public health problems that are concentrated among young adults, especially those...