What Becomes of Second Chances?
Does erring toward leniency for first-time criminals amount to wisdom or wishful thinking?
May 24th, 2026
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June 22nd, 2022
How Psychology Could Change the Way We Understand Consent
The is more to consent than its legal definition. Understanding how people experience consent has important implications for a variety of social issues, including medical decisions and interactions with law enforcement.
June 07th, 2020
Selected Links: Police Violence, Protests, and Racial Injustice
Selected articles that help shed light on the behavioral features of the police violence and protests occurring across the United States and around the world.
May 31st, 2018
What We Learned By Failing to Make Work Better for Female Staff
Trainings to remove bias are mostly ineffective, and can even backfire. What, then, is the way forward?
February 08th, 2016
Stereotype Threat in Police Encounters: Implications for Miscarriages of Justice
Data from research I recently conducted with Bette Bottoms and Phillip Goff, published in Law and Human Behavior, suggest that the psychological experience of such police encounters is very different for Black as compared to White citizens.
October 16th, 2015
Teens, False Confessions, and Perceptions of the Police
There is no question that teenagers like Marty Tankleff and the Central Park Five suffered enormous miscarriages of justice—having spent years in prison for confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.
September 09th, 2014
How Psychology Can Help Ferguson Heal
As a nation, we must commit to the complex and difficult work of change. Change can start with our willingness to talk honestly with each other and to have difficult dialogues regarding race relations and the persistence of racial bias in this country.
September 03rd, 2014
Why Governor Nixon has to remove prosecutor from Michael Brown Case
We are a long way from knowing precisely what happened in Ferguson, two weeks ago, but one thing is clear: The town’s name has become yet another synonym for the chasm of experience dividing white and black America.
