Our laboratory is primarily concerned with forensic and legal psychology research.

Forensic and legal psychology concerns the intersection of psychology and the criminal justice system and examines human behavior related to the legal process, including eyewitness memory, testimony, jury decision making, the insanity defense, and lie detection. Within that area, some of our research concerns criminal behaviors such as homicide and rape. For example, one thing I am interested in is using details from the crime scene, like the weapon, to predict who the perpetrator is in a homicide case. This is really fun research since a lot of people including the police have all sorts of ideas about what crime scene details mean, and they are frequently wrong or sometimes there is just no existing data. But it is fascinating that people form many beliefs about such things, and sometimes are very confident in those beliefs, despite lack of empirical evidence. Other research focuses on topics related to the fourth amendment. But we do actually do more than just forensic psychology research, which includes social cognitive research like on self-control, and evolutionary research like understanding exploitative strategies. 

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We are currently located at:  IMBM 309