The Child Witness & Cognition Lab follows 4 different lines of scholarship, with a primary emphasis on topics at the intersection of psychology and law:
➊ Children & the law (suggestibility, competence to testify, deception, coerced confessions)
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➋ Topics within social psychology & law (moral decision making, perceptions of future criminality, gender biases within jury decision making, and bias within voir dire for capital punishment cases)
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➌ Professional issues such as women in science (alleged hiring bias, sex differences in productivity)
and free speech on campus
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➍ Intellectual development (cross-cultural influences, schooling, intelligence, cognitive sex differences, and achievement gaps)
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➋ Topics within social psychology & law (moral decision making, perceptions of future criminality, gender biases within jury decision making, and bias within voir dire for capital punishment cases)
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➌ Professional issues such as women in science (alleged hiring bias, sex differences in productivity)
and free speech on campus
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➍ Intellectual development (cross-cultural influences, schooling, intelligence, cognitive sex differences, and achievement gaps)