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 …

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 …

2 Introduction many times and beaten. Ronald Jones, who was familiar to the police
because he was a suspect in a sexual assault case that was never brought to a trial, was …

Metacognition is the first textbook to focus on people's extraordinary ability to evaluate and
control their cognitive processes. This comprehensive text covers both theoretical and …

Abstract Information that initially is presumed to be correct, but that is later retracted or
corrected, often continues to influence memory and reasoning. This occurs even if the …

In April 1989, a young woman was attacked while jogging in New York City's Central Park.
The jogger entered the park near 84th Street shortly after 9: 00 pm, traveled north along the …

In 2001, I returned to Iran after twenty-four years. This was in itself a risky undertaking. As a
feisty publisher said to me,“Dr. Rejali! How nice to meet you! How did you get in? How do …

Interrogation and confession-taking is of interest to a wide audience. To political scientists
and sociologists, police interrogation offers a paradigm case of the constitutional exercise …

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 …

The discovery of hundreds of wrongful convictions in the last fifteen years has shaken up the
criminal justice world. Since the advent of postconviction DNA testing around 1990, more …