🎉 Huge congratulations to the amazing graduate students and post-doc at CNL — Laura, Deborah, Georgia, and Dr. Quincy Miller — for successfully presenting their research at the American Psychology-Law Society 2025 Conference! 🌟
#APLS2025 #ChildNarrativesLab #UCI
Still smiling after a great week at the American Psych-Law Society Conference in San Juan! Grateful to connect, present, and soak up the sun with my incredible doctoral students and former students. Proud of all the great work being done—excited for what’s ahead! #APLS2025 #PsychLaw #SanJuan
Last month, I attended @aplssc.bsky.social in sunny San Juan! 🌤️ #APLS2025
I presented work showing that humans are worse at judging guilt based on walking style than a computer algorithm trained on the same dataset.
w/ @kurtjgray.bsky.social
Poster: tinyurl.com/devineposter...
Highlights from #APLS2025: Got some great feedback on my research, reunited with Emporia State rising stars, and dinner out with the Flagler College folks ⚖️🌴
Last week in San Juan, our lab presented two projects at #apls2025 —one on children’s suggestibility in a transnational context and another on religious delusions on death row. Grateful for the thoughtful feedback & inspiring conversations. Can’t wait for #apls2026 in Reno, Nevada! ⚖️🧠
#PsychLaw
4 people sitting behind a blue table cloth covered table smiling toward the camera
A white plate of mofongo covered w/ fried pork and pink pickled onions
4 people sitting outside at a table filled with food and smiling toward the camera
6 people in a corner of a conference room behind a table filled with hot sauces, water, and papers. Most are smiling. The person on the left is in the midst of eating a chicken wing. The person on the right appears to be in agony.
Just a few pictures
from a great, busy conf'rence
in Puerto Rico.
Beyond sun & talks,
state of world was salient
in the discussions.
We need to focus
our work on bigger impact
now more than ever.
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
Dara Zwemer at a podium giving a talk. They are midsentence.
Stairs at El Morro, a fort at the edge of San Juan by the ocean.
A park mid-city street in Old San Juan with bright blue and yellow pigeons, a huge tree, and people sitting on benches. Pigeons roam the scene.
Dara in a bandana and their partner Kyle posing and smiling together in front of the ocean.
Incredibly grateful to have attended and given my first conference talk at #apls2025 🌴
Some pics from #APLS2025! This conference was a wonderful whirlwind of networking with role models in the #psychlaw field, practicing my Spanish, learning about intellectual disability and competency attainment, and exploring San Juan (puppy cuddles were just a bonus!) 🇵🇷☀️⚖️
#APLS2025 has ended, we hope you all enjoyed your time with us (and San Juan)! Next year we're in Reno! #APLS2026
Day 3 of #APLS2025 brings some exciting sessions outside the typical psych-law umbrella: closing plenary on using research to improve corrections, psych of tax-payers, and civil justice. And then I am going to sleep.
Distant pic of a screen w two people at a podium
Evaluator
Pay for competence evals
Varies quite a lot.
Even w/in states,
Some vary by district or
By assessment acts.
UNM Postdocs Andrew Cecil & Maeve Cardwell w/ @jenperillo.bsky.social & me
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
My Global @mitacs.bsky.social @mitacscanada.bsky.social student presenting our research at the @ap-ls.org conference in Puerto Rico from her visit to our lab at @ontariotechu.bsky.social last summer #APLS2025
Minnesota has
A different Roll 20
Than the D&D
(Their competency screenings and proceedings are also called Rule 20. Also extra points if you know what I mean with D&D! They also have a lack of evaluators).
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
Transgender laws now
Are coordinated attacks
This is nothing new
And since before Trump
Both micro and macro cuz
They did not like change
(anti-trans laws were active even before Trump’s presidency and were done in a coordinated way in red states where they would easily pass).
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw
I feel much better watching @anthonyperillo.bsky.social on the Hot Seat this year 😂 Hot wings and hot ethics is the theme this time #APLS2025 #PsychLaw
More correctional psychology research is needed to enact better living conditions for incarcerated individuals and working conditions for those who are employed in correctional institutions. Thank you to Ashley Batastini & David Pitts for your insights into this important area! #apls2025
@davidpitts.bsky.social
We should ask people
in prison what they think is
helpful, don't assume
#apls2025
@davidpitts.bsky.social
engaged incarcerated ppl, staff, local academics to study prison climate, develop innovations, evaluate pilot projects &implement change. Buy in, partnerships, providing value-> success. Leadership/staffing/funding, poss. litigation, being extractive=challenges
#apls2025
Broader system stress
Can impact cross-cultural
Mentorship efforts.
(On culturally & colonially informed mentoring)
Anumba & Guzman-Hosta
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
Just a snippet of
Representation boosting
Recommendations…
Fix the scaffolding:
Early pathways, leader roles,
Less required debt.
@drapryla.bsky.social (highlighting some parts of paper below)
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw
#AcademicHaiku
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
Thomas Hilliard:
Another name we should know
In forensic psych.
His impact in court
On solitary effects
Should be recognized.
@evanauguste.bsky.social
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
RNR centers
Person’s role in their offense
W/ no wide context.
No acknowledgement
Of social restraints is a
Colonial lens.
Lalane, IUP w/ @evanauguste.bsky.social
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
Let us recognize
Psych-Law people of color
Who don’t get their due.
Mae Belle Claytor’s work
In youth delinquent actions
Should be acknowledged.
Ryan, Bridgewater
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
Task irrelevance—
In irrelevant sources—
Did not change judgments
(In criminal responsibility eval record review)
Stephens, Bama
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
Procedures that said
Don’t see irrelevant info?
Whopping 5 percent.
(Finger print analysis lab Standard Operating Procedures that were accessible)
Gardner, UVA
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
Crime lab SOPs
Were not accessible when
We tried to get them.
(Re Standard Operating Procedures for quality assurance, reportedly supposed to be transparent)
Gardner, UVA
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
Biased info led
To mis-IDs in facial
Recognition tasks…
Particularly
For when the suspect was Black.
Are we that surprised?
Stewart, Towson
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
Youth incompetence
related to SMI
plus other factors:
Younger, Black youth &
those w/ ACEs also
found IST more.
White, Bama
#APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku
