Consensus Meeting Legal Psychology - Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology Yesterday, at the Faculty Club in Leiden, approximately 35 legal psychologists from the Netherlands and Flanders came together at the Consensus Meeting Legal Psychology, organized by Jan de Keijser, A...

Yesterday, a consensus meeting for Dutch and Flemish legal psychologists was organized by Jan de Keijser, @anneliesvrede.bsky.social and @henryotgaar.bsky.social to discuss how expert witnesses can best serve in court. It was a fruitful meeting, hopefully the first of many! allp.nl/consensus-me...

Check out our new preprint! We conducted four meta-analyses and our findings challenge the common belief that inconsistency is a sign of deception while consistency equals credibility @vucriminologie.bsky.social allp.nl/what-does-co...

Looking for paid research experience? Help Gabi de Bruïne with her research on culture and emotional memories! Send your CV and short motivation to g.de.bruine@vu.nl before December 24th!

Gabi de Bruïne is op zoek naar een (recent afgestudeerde) student die haar kan helpen bij het coderen van interviews met Afrikaanse en Europese deelnemers!
💡 Fulltime, onderzoekservaring + vergoeding
📩 Solliciteer vóór 24 dec: g.de.bruine@vu.nl

Kom bij ons werken als onderzoeksassistent! Nog 5 dagen om te solliciteren (t/m 5 oktober).

Come work with me! I need a part-time research assistant to help me with research articles, presentations, expert witness reports and social media. I need someone with a background in legal psychology, fluent English and Dutch and a healthy dose of enthusiasm :)

Vacature — Onderzoeksassistent Rechtspsychologie Heb jij hart voor rechtspsychologisch onderzoek en zin in een leerzame bijbaan? Solliciteer dan nu voor de functie van onderzoeksassistent bij de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)!

🚨 Vacature alert! Ben jij op zoek naar een leerzame bijbaan binnen de rechtspsychologie? Solliciteer dan nu op de #vacature Onderzoeksassistent Rechtspsychologie voor 6 oktober!
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On the first day of the #EAPL2025 conference in Vilnius, @anneliesvrede.bsky.social presents the recently developed ALLP training on cross-cultural communication for interviewers @vucriminologie.bsky.social

NWO grant for research on legal psychological expert witness reports - Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded one of their competitive Open Competition M grants to ALLP director Annelies Vredeveldt, for a project on legal psychological expert witnesses reports. The...

Excited to share that I've been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant for research on expert witness reports in legal psychology, allowing the fantastic @evanrosmalen.bsky.social to start her PhD @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social! allp.nl/nwo-grant-fo...

🚨 Just published! Our case study on the ICTR reveals how cultural background shapes courtroom communication. Witnesses from non-WEIRD contexts often gave indirect responses, easily misinterpreted as unclear or evasive by legal professionals @anneliesvrede.bsky.social doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

New article alert! 🚨 Our field study on South African eyewitness reports shows six main cultural differences, regarding detailedness, confidence, assertiveness and more. Published open-access! @anneliesvrede.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

About to start our #SARMAC2025 symposium on eyewitness memory in cross-cultural contexts in the Fountain Suite with @anneliesvrede.bsky.social @gabidb.bsky.social Nkansah Aankwam @lorrainehope.bsky.social and Qi Wang @officialsarmac.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social

The way we remember and report: Cultural differences in eyewitness memory - Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology How do people from different cultural backgrounds remember and report what they have witnessed? In a newly published open-access article in Memory, Gabi de Bruïne, Annelies Vredeveldt, and Peter J. va...

How do people from different cultures remember and report what they have witnessed? @gabidb.bsky.social explored this question in her PhD research with a cleverly designed cross-cultural experiment. #eyewitness #memory @amslablegpsy.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social allp.nl/the-way-we-r...

The way we remember and report: an experiment testing cultural differences in eyewitness memory More and more people report their memories in cross-cultural contexts, including eyewitness interviews. In a pre-registered experiment (N = 64), we examined cultural differences in mock eyewitness ...

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🔍 New research on cultural differences in eyewitness memory
By De Bruïne, Vredeveldt & Van Koppen (2025)
We compared how sub-Saharan African and Western European participants recalled the same mock crime video.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0965...

The emeritus Professor in Legal Psychology and the newly minted Professor in Legal Psychology :) @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @anneliesvrede.bsky.social

Our research on collaborative interviewing is now also featured on the VU website! @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social vu.nl/en/news/2025...

Great to see our field study on the Collaborative Eyewitness Interview featured in Applied Police Briefings!

Great to see this important work led by @evanrosmalen.bsky.social @amslablegpsy.bsky.social featured in Applied Police Briefings!

Want to know what it's like being interviewed as a witness? Participate in this study on witness interviewing in Amsterdam! @nscr-instituut.bsky.social #PsychLaw

Historic moment! Previous Prof Peter van Koppen and newly appointed Prof @anneliesvrede.bsky.social talk together about the history and future of legal psychology at the VU @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social #PsychLaw

Vacature — Docent Criminologie Ben jij gepassioneerd over de Criminologie en heb jij de ambitie om wetenschappelijk onderwijs te geven? Solliciteer dan bij de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) naar de vacature van Docent Criminolog...

Ben jij gepassioneerd over criminologie en heb jij de ambitie om wetenschappelijk onderwijs te geven? Solliciteer dan nu bij @vuamsterdam.bsky.social naar de vacature van Docent Criminologie! @vucriminologie.bsky.social #JobAlert werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/do...

Annelies Vredeveldt appointed Professor of Legal Psychology - Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology We are happy to announce that our Director, Annelies Vredeveldt, has been appointed Full Professor of Legal Psychology at VU Amsterdam from the 1st of March 2025. She was selected for the prestigious ...

Our director @anneliesvrede.bsky.social has been appointed Full Professor in Legal Psychology @vuamsterdam.bsky.social! Please save the date for her inaugural lecture on the 13th of November 2025. allp.nl/annelies-vre...

This month's Lies & Allies lineup on March 4th, 4-5pm UK time: emotions in false allegations, the nature of honesty (@charactergap.bsky.social), and predicting suspicion in emergency service calls. To join us, email info@deceptionresearchsociety.org

A list of top researchers in criminal psychology, criminology, police investigations, forensic psychiatry & other crime-related areas.

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Again we want to promote the online talk by Prof. Richard J. McNally! Just two days to wait. It‘s on Thursday, Feb 27 at 3 pm CET (2 pm UK time)x the Talk is on 'Trauma, Memory, and the Law'. Please save the date for this not-to-be-missed event! Please retweet.

Have you ever witnessed a crime while under influence of #cannabis? Your experience could help advance #research on psychological processes in crime-related contexts! Sign up for this online study here: lnkd.in/ehZ_JuBB

How could AI be used to assess eyewitness identification accuracy? Andrew Smith, @nydia-ayala.bsky.social and @rying.bsky.social discuss three ways AI could prove useful! @officialsarmac.bsky.social #PsychLaw psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

II-RP JOURNAL NEW - IIIRG - International Investigative Interviewing Research Group II-RP JOURNAL INVESTIGATIVE INTERVIEWING:RESEARCH & PRACTICE II:RP (Investigative Interviewing: Research & Practice) is a free, open access publication and the official journal of the International In...

Call for papers!!

FIRST BILINGUAL SPECIAL ISSUE OF INVESTIGATIVE INTERVIEWING: RESEARCH & PRACTICE!!

Submission deadline: 31st May 2025

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