Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

in which five teenage boys confessed to brutally beat- ing and raping a female jogger in New York’s Central Park. Even though th ...

contains numerous stories of this type of confession— as in the Salem witch trials of 1692, when some 50 women were tortured and ...

are less likely to invoke these rights, and are more likely to confess when under pressure to do so. Mental retardation is also ...

the participant for help on an individual problem, inducing a violation of the experimental rule; in an innocent condition, the ...

Scientific Research on False Memories LLoosstt iinn tthhee MMaallll As the notion of repression became more popular, some psycho ...

implanting false memories. How do these memories develop? One model of false memory development was proposed by Giuliana Mazzoni ...

How Do We Figure Out If a Memory Is True or False? In experimental settings, scientists know which events are true and which are ...

and other scams, as well as greater susceptibility to undue influence by family members and third parties. As noted above, some ...

financial functioning and also about changes in func- tioning over time. At the present time, however, there are few rating form ...

Declines in FC have also been observed in persons with MCI. Relative to normal older adults, individuals with MCI demonstrated m ...

(FCI-8). New domains assessed bill payment (D7) and knowledge of personal assets and estate arrangements (D8). An index of overa ...

Further Readings Earnst, K., Wadley, V., Aldridge, T., Steenwyk, A., Hammond, A., Harrell, L., et al. (2001). Loss of financial ...

cause the anomalies that become a part of the config- urations within natural pattern structures. All natural patterns in volar ...

specific source or person made the unknown print (inconclusive). When testifying in court, the examiner must be able to present ...

by Tom Busey and colleagues has shown that experts appear to perceive fingerprints using the configural process or a holistic pr ...

process. However, employers may choose to use a psy- chological FFDE to mitigate discipline and develop rehabilitation or accomm ...

Designed as a structured clinical judgment instrument that guides evaluators through an assessment of the specific psycholegal a ...

predictor variable is negative) when used in this way and that it can reliably screen out individuals who are clearly competent ...

example, by pressing eyewitnesses to answer ques- tions about events that they are unsure of. Kathy Pezdek and her colleagues co ...

imposed by the U.S. Constitution and its state coun- terparts are the most significant restrictions on state authority in this r ...