In defense of weird hypotheticals

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

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...

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

In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, Justice Thomas’s majority opinion announced that the key to applying originalist methodology...

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...

Although risk assessment tools have been widely used to inform sentencing decisions, there is uncertainty about the extent and quality of evidence of...

Pretrial risk assessment instruments are used in many jurisdictions to inform decisions regarding pretrial release and conditions. Many are concerned...

Until social psychology devotes as much attention to construct and external validity as it does to internal validity, the field will continue to...

The five articles in this special issue of FSI:Synergy were created to advance the understanding and adoption of insights from cognitive psychology...

The success of forensic science depends heavily on human reasoning abilities. Although we typically navigate our lives well using those abilities...

Behavioral scientists enjoy vast methodological freedom in how they operationalize theoretical constructs. This freedom may promote creativity in...

Replies to comments by Cowan (see record 2022-57821-002), Vlasceanu et al. (see record 2022-57821-003), Tullett (see record 2022-57821-004), Marsh...

For over a decade, a battle has been raging in the trial courts of this country over something called the "reptile theory," often simply referred to...