Research In the News

Online News Articles

Research in the field of psychology and law covers many topics. This Web page collects links to news stories and other articles that have appeared online covering research studies in psychology and law

Fake video footage 'persuades half of people to wrongly accuse others of crime' (9/18 from UK Telegraph)
Study: Terrorism Evokes Different Responses Among Genders and Personality Types (9/16 from PhysOrg.com)
Movement may reveal memories that the brain recalls even when a person isn’t aware of them (9/11 from US News & World Report)
How Do You Analyse A Criminal? (9/11 from Science Daily)
Only one woman confined in Florida under Jimmy Ryce Act (9/11 from Sun-Sentinel)
Death row inmates pushed to insanity in Japan (9/10 from CNN International)
Californians' support for death penalty waning (9/1 from LA Times)
Can handwriting analysis be used to detect lies? (8/28 from TIME)
How Much of Your Memory Is True? (Discover Magazine, August 3, 2009) [Eyewitness memory]
Adults who should know better feel driven to text (CNN, July 31, 2009)
Mystery: Who killed witness bill? (Houston Chronicle, July 30, 2009) [Eyewitness memory; DNA exonerations]
Eyewitness Testimony: In the Eye of the Beholder? ((audio report) Maine Public Broadcast Network, July 20, 2009) [Eyewitness memory]
In insanity cases, leave decision in juries' hands (Editorial) (Boston Globe, July 16, 2009) [Insanity; Jury decision making]
Judge grants change of venue for Kingsport man accused of killing toddler in 2005 (Kingsport Times-News, July 13, 2009) [Jury decision making]
Eyewitness: How Accurate Is Visual Memory? (CBS News, July 11, 2009) [Eyewitness memory]

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