Things I found out I’m known for in the forensic psych world that aren’t really part of my job (thanks to #APLS2024):
🖋Signing reviews
📜Conference haikus
🇵🇷Making coquito
🤭Giggling w @kukucka.bsky.social
My recent conference highlighted how much twitter engagement in my field has fallen & how Bluesky has dropped the ball as an alternative. Live #APLS2024 tweeting plummeted, yet I see no new forensic accounts on Bluesky.
We have much social media sharing to offer but little community to do it well.
Had such a lovely time presenting, postering, and meeting new people at #APLS2024 :) A wonderful 1st in-person conference experience ❤️🧠
What an epic week.
I miss you all already!
Hasta luego... 🇵🇷
#APLS2024
Empty lobby means that’s a wrap on #APLS2024! Sam & I are happy to take your compliments but please direct complaints to next year’s co-chairs 😉
On a serious note, it’s been a privilege to organize my favorite conference and spend it with my favorite people. Until Puerto Rico!
I wish I could express, in proper haiku fashion, just how lovely it was to see folks, old friends and new, at #APLS2024 … but I’m afraid my travel-weary brain can’t hack it. Maybe after a good night’s sleep. #PsychLaw
We have 2 talks on
race considerations in
police psych evals:
What clinicians *do*
to assess for racism,
as well as their *views*
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
Smith (@IowaStateU):
Time to abandon
AFTE source opinions. Just
report what you see! 🔫
#APLS2024
Smith (@IowaStateU):
Firearms experts
say "inconclusive" more for
non-matching items,
so innocent folks
are denied of info that
would exculpate them.
#APLS2024
Guarnera (@UVA):
Using VR to
make folks feel like they're being
interrogated!
#APLS2024
Guarnera (@UVA):
Not much research on
how coercion FEELS versus
how coercion LOOKS.
#APLS2024
Scherr (@CMUniversity):
False confessors have
harder time getting relief
and face more stigma.
Need to change statutes
that prevent them from getting
post-release support.
#APLS2024
Never work weekends?
Went from over half of us
To just 8%!
Survey data of
Comp evaluators pre-
And post- Trueblood case.
(Impact of comp crisis on evaluator workload)
Robert Crosby, Office of Forensic MH Services
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
Kassin (@JJ_PsychLawPhD):
Minimization
looks benign but is harmful,
like a Trojan horse 🐴
#APLS2024
Cleary (@VCU):
Courts are embracing
science of adolescence
(but not fully yet).
#APLS2024
Cleary (@VCU):
New paper highlights
more vulnerabilities
for false confession--
including trauma,
autism, ADHD,
and many others.
#APLS2024
Slight majority
Of forensic psychs report
Overwork, burnout.
Jacqueline Means, office of Forensic MH Services
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
Core comp info is
What judges truly want in
Competence info.
(Survey of WA judges)
Jessica Hart, Office of Forensic Services
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
Kassin (@JJ_PsychLawPhD):
False confessions pose
a threat to public safety.
How to prevent them?
Mandate recording,
ban lying, provide counsel,
and revise statutes.
#APLS2024
Kassin (@JJ_PsychLawPhD):
Big developments
in the interrogation
world since 2010:
More states addressing
recording and deception
(and, of course, research).
#APLS2024
Froehlich (@uwyo):
Agreeableness
didn't change jurors' views of
firearms expert.
#APLS2024
Stress induction seemed
To help challenge analysts
More than hinder them
(Fingerprint analysis study)
Mohammed Almazrouei, Yale
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
Teaching jurors how
Stuff could’ve biased expert
Had little impact.
(Re juror perceptions of forensic science analysis)
Adele Quigley-McBride, Simon Fraser U
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
How the case is framed
to the expert being hired
can impact evals.
This is even when
experts are kept unaware
of which side hired them!
@jenperillo.bsky.social
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
Patterns seen among
Competence evals from claims
Of sovereignty.
“Sov’reign citizens”
Referred for comp when judges
Found them disruptive.
@annabellefrazier.com & Isabella Callahan
#APLS2024 #PsychLaw
Kirshenbaum (@unevadareno):
Jurors more swayed by
experts' total earnings than
their hourly rate.
#APLS2024
