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Police-Induced Confessions: Risk Factors and Recommendations (with Saul M. Kassin, Steven A. Drizin, Thomas Grisso, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, and Allison D. Redlich), Law and Human Behavior (2009)
Recent DNA exonerations have shed light on the problem that people sometimes confess to crimes...
 

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Jurors Believe Interrogation Tactics Are Not Likely To Elicit False Confessions: Will Expert Witness Testimony Inform Them Otherwise? (with Iris Blandon-Gitlin and Kathryn Sperry), Crime, Psychology, & Law (2009)
Situational factors – in the form of interrogation tactics – have been reported to unduly...
 

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What Do Potential Jurors Know About Police Interrogation Techniques and False Confessions? (with Brittany Liu), Behavioral Sciences and the Law (2009)
Psychological police interrogation methods in America inevitably involve some level of pressure and persuasion to...
 

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False Confessions: Causes, Consequences and Implications, The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (2009)
In the last two decades, hundred of convicted prisoners have been exonerated by DNA and...
 

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From False Confession to Wrongful Conviction: Seven Psychological Processes (with Deborah Davis), Journal of Psychiatry and Law (2009)
A steadily increasing tide of literature has documented the existence and causes of false confession...