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Jan 1, 2014 · The development of psychology and law depends on institutional support for establishing an interdisciplinary research group gathering both psychologists and lawyers.
Law of Psychology. Some legal (e.g., Perlin, 1985) and psychological (e.g., Wulach, 1998) scholars study and write about the law affecting the practice and science of psychology (aka law of psychology).
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Introduction Legal aspects of children as witnesses Evaluations of Live Link/closed-circuit television (CCTV) Child witnesses and popular beliefs about them Children’s remembering ability and autobiographical memories Deception in children Factors that impact on children’s testimony Enhancing children’s testimony Interviewing children in sexual abu...
Introduction A jury of twelve: historical background and legal aspects The notion of an impartial and fair jury: a critical appraisal Methods for studying juries/jurors What do we know about juries? Defendant characteristics Victim/plaintiff characteristics Interaction of defendant and victim characteristics Lawyer and judge characteristics Hung ju...
Introduction Admissibility of expert evidence United States England and Wales Australia, New Zealand and Canada The impact of expert testimony by psychologists Appearing as an expert witness Conclusions Revision questions Additional reading
While the decision by Cambridge University Press to go for a fourth edition was unexpected, I accepted the challenge having first, as in the past, been assured by my wife Maria and our children Elena and Konstantinos-Raphael that I would have their full support and understanding. Little did they know, of course, that this time they would need to de...
Thus, a suitably broad definition is that law and psychology is the scientific study of the effect the law has on people, and the effect people have on the law (see Small, 1993). All laws are designed with an ultimate purpose in mind: to regulate human behavior.
The congruencies between psychology and law are explored in this collection of learning objectives, exercises, and reference material that addresses the intersection of these two disciplines.
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in legal rules and practices. We narrow our focus specifically to social psychology, which we define as the scientific study of the ways in which individuals’ thoughts, feel-ings, and behaviors are influenced by the real, implied, or imagined presen.
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Characteristics of the Scientific Approach 1. Control (single most important element of the scientific process)—The ability to remove or account for alternative explanations (or variables) for observed relationships. 2. Operational definition—Defining variables or constructs in such a way that they are measurable; this
