Intended for beginning graduate or advanced undergraduate students, this book provides a
comprehensive review of research methods used in psychology and related disciplines. It …

Recent DNA exonerations have shed light on the problem that people sometimes confess to
crimes they did not commit. Drawing on police practices, laws concerning the admissibility of …

A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist's “gripping and thought-provoking” look at
how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works). In …

En el año 1876, Ezequías Marco César Lombroso Leví publicó El hombre delincuente, cuyo
contenido estaba basado en un largo periodo de investigación sobre las características …

Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields
central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions …

Ce livre est une référence pour l'étude de la psychologie cognitive-des théories
fondamentales aux recherches contemporaines, notamment en neurosciences-et de ses …

Recently, in a number of high-profile cases, defendants who were prosecuted, convicted,
and sentenced on the basis of false confessions have been exonerated through DNA …

The criminal justice system relies heavily on eyewitness identification for investigating and
prosecuting crimes. Psychology has built the only scientific literature on eyewitness …

Understanding the interplay between memory and emotion is crucial for the work of
researchers in many arenas--clinicians, psychologists interested in eyewitness testimony …

Covering a range of fundamental topics essential to modern forensic investigation, the fifth
edition of the landmark text Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative …