Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

General Editor

Brian L. Cutler,Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of the

Department of Psychology at the University of North

Carolina at Charlotte. He conducts research on eye-

witness identification and the effectiveness of safe-

guards designed to protect defendants from erroneous

conviction resulting from mistaken identification. He

is the author of Mistaken Identification: Eyewitnesses,

Psychology, and the Law(with Steven Penrod, 1995)

and over 60 book chapters and articles on eyewitness

memory and legal safeguards. He serves as Editor-in-

Chief of Law and Human Behavior, the official jour-

nal of the American Psychology-Law Society. He also

serves as an expert witness and testifies on the psy-

chology of eyewitness memory. He received his doc-

toral degree in social psychology from the University

of Wisconsin–Madison in 1987.

Associate Editor

Patricia A. Zapf, Ph.D., is currently Associate

Professor in the Department of Psychology at John

Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of

New York. She is Associate Editor of Law and Human

Behaviorand was appointed Fellow of the American

Psychological Association in 2006 for outstanding

contributions to the field of law and psychology. She

has published over 60 articles and chapters, mainly on

the assessment of criminal competencies. In addition

to her research, she serves as a consultant to various

criminal justice and policy organizations and main-

tains a private practice in forensic assessment. She

received her doctoral degree in clinical forensic psy-

chology from Simon Fraser University in Canada in

1999.

Managing Editor

Sarah Greathouse,M.S., is currently working on her

Ph.D. in psychology at the City University of New

York. To date, her research has focused on issues rel-

evant to jury decision making and eyewitness identifi-

cation. She recently served as the editorial assistant

for Law and Human Behavior, the official journal of

the American Psychology-Law Society. She received

her master’s degree in legal psychology from Florida

International University.

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