Having neglected this blog somewhat in recent weeks I find myself now overwhelmed with interesting snippets from around the web and blogosphere. Here are just a few that caught my eye:
The Eyewitness Reform Blog reports on a conviction “overturned for failure to “seriously consider” expert testimony on eyewitness factors”: “The court didn’t go as [...]
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Some articles of forensic interest in the October 2007 issue of the APA’s Monitor on Psychology 38(9):
APA’s council calls for ban on torture: APA names specific torture methods that the U.S. government should prohibit.
Stay involved or get out? APA members deliberate whether psychologists should play a role in military interrogations.
Evil’s mundane roots: Three renowned behavioral [...]
The August, September and October 2007 issues of Violence Against Women are now online. Follow the links to the publisher’s website for abstracts and access to full text articles.
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Violence Against Women 13(8), August 2007
An Evaluation of the Coping Patterns of Rape Victims: Integration With a Schema-Based Information-Processing Model – [...]
Quick links from around the web and blogosphere:
Reports from a review of the Virginia Tech massacre have been published (download via Docuticker) prompting much commentary, including this detailed post over at World of Psychology, where John Grohol discusses the report (pdf) detailing mass murderer Seung Hui Cho’s mental health history.
Providentia draws our attention to a [...]
Those of you following the continuing debate about the participation of psychologists in interrogations may be interested in a one day conference this Friday in New York.
“War, Torture and Terror: The Role of Psychology” is being held on 22 June from 9am to 4pm at the Geraldine Schottenstein Center, 239-241 East 34th Street, NYC. Sessions [...]
Some recent podcasts on topics relevant to psychology and crime:
Mentally Ill and Incarcerated (The Leonard Lopate Show, 5 June) :
More than four times as many mentally ill people are in prison and jail than in all state psychiatric hospitals combined. Mary Beth Pfeiffer investigates why so many end up incarcerated in Crazy in America.
Inside Abu [...]
This month’s APA Monitor on Psychology magazine (Vol 38, No. 6, June 2007) includes several stories of interest in a forensic context.
The cover story is a triple-bill of short articles on psychology in the courtroom:
Order in the court: The best way to educate juries on the pitfalls of eyewitness evidence? Teach judges, say psychologists.
To ask [...]
I’ve posted before here about the publicity surrounding Philip Zimbardo’s book The Lucifer Effect. Two articles in the latest issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin take a look at Zimbardo’s famous/notorious Stanford Prison Experiment (follow the link for more details of the SPE).
In discussions of the SPE, the participants have usually been referred [...]
The whirlwind of publicity for Philip Zimbardo’s new book The Lucifer Effect continues. Here’s a round-up of recent interviews, blog posts and other commentary:
Zimbardo’s 2 April lecture at MIT can be viewed online via this link.
The Situationist Blog reported (13 April) on Zimbardo’s 3 April appearance at Harvard Law, and a video of the [...]
If you’re in the Cambridge Mass area on Monday 2 April at 4pm you can catch a forum led by renowned psychologist Philip Zimbardo, who will be discussing his new book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. If you’re not able to be in Boston, the forum will be broadcast via [...]
