Happy Canada Day!! 🍁 Get some fresh air during gatherings/ BBQ? Check out our new paper Evaluating Confessions in Context: A Policy-capturing Study by Madi Hynes and Brent Snook. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Evaluating confessions in context: a policy-capturing study

Given the well-documented risks associated with confession evidence, we examined how confessions influence lay perceptions of culpability, alongside other common forms of evidence. We hypothesized ...

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Morning reading for fun (4/n)? We have you covered 😃 . Our new book chapter, Serial Murder Spatial Behaviour: Data, Theory, and Application, by Tianshuang Han and Brent Snook, is now available in The Psychology of Serial Murder. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Serial Murder Spatial Behavior: Data, Theory, and Application

Humans often choose the fastest and frugal way to accomplish tasks—offenders are no exception. Decades of research have shown that crimes, including serial murders, are typically committed near ...

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Lunch break and looking for a read? Our latest paper is out in Psychology, Crime, & Law🍷 Housing stigma: the effects of wrongful conviction and mental illness by Tianshuang Han, Kelsey Downer, Laura Fallon & Brent Snook. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Housing stigma: the effects of wrongful conviction and mental illness

We examined potential housing discrimination against exonerees with mental illness in the Canadian rental market. We sent inquiries to landlords advertising apartments online across Canada, using s...

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Reading for a coffee break ☕️: check out our lab research Replication, a Hallmark of Good Science: Unraveling the Factors that Predict Replication Success by Malcolm Grant, Brent Snook & Cathryn Button doi.org/10.20982/tqm...

Reading for a coffee break ☕️: check out our lab research Replication, a Hallmark of Good Science: Unraveling the Factors that Predict Replication Success by Malcolm Grant, Brent Snook & Cathryn Button doi.org/10.20982/tqm...

Looking for some summer reading? Check out our lab's research by Madi Hynes and Brent Snook: “Potential Jurors’ Perceptions of Interrogations and Confessions in Canada.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Potential jurors’ perceptions of interrogations and confessions in Canada

Canadian potential jurors (N = 377) were surveyed about their perceptions of police interrogation practices, confession evidence, and factors contributing to false confessions. Most respondents (85...

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Looking for some summer reading? Check out our lab's research by Madi Hynes and Brent Snook: “Potential Jurors’ Perceptions of Interrogations and Confessions in Canada.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Potential jurors’ perceptions of interrogations and confessions in Canada

Canadian potential jurors (N = 377) were surveyed about their perceptions of police interrogation practices, confession evidence, and factors contributing to false confessions. Most respondents (85...

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1/#APB Summer 2025 Spotlight Day 20! Many people misunderstand police use of force - how often it’s used, officer shooting accuracy, & training levels. Research by Ariane-Jade Khanizadeh, Craig Bennell, & Heather McGale tests if public education can fix that. 🧵👇

With government science and regulation under attack, I thought I’d reshare this: The Myth That May Have Doomed the Titan www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/o...

Opinion | The Myth That May Have Doomed the Titan (Published 2023)

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👋 To help us celebrate 10 years of CREST this October, we’re collecting case studies, quotes, stories, and stats to show how our work has been used in policy, practice, research, or teaching. And we want to hear from YOU! 👉 lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

1/ #APB Summer 2025 Spotlight, Day 14! Can mindfulness help officers manage stress, burnout, and mental health? Léa Plisson & Shannon Ferguson highlight new a meta-analysis of mindfulness training in policing. 🧵👇

1/ 🧠 How much do we remember about a totally ordinary day...months later? Today’s #APB brief by yours truly😉, Madison Harvey, & Heather Price tackles memory recall for “unremarkable” events that only became important in hindsight. 🧵👇

1/🚨Our new paper in Legal and Criminological Psychology🚨 Fore! Does Forewarning Inoculate People Against the False Balance Effect? By Tianshuang Han, Brent Snook, and Martin V. Day www.researchgate.net/publication/... doi.org/10.1111/lcrp...

Legal and Criminological Psychology | BPS Forensic Psychology Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background & Aims We examined the effect of falsely balanced messages on perceptions of expert consensus about non-verbal lie detection and whether forewarning inoculates people against the fake deb.....

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1/ 🏢 Do police stations deter crime in the surrounding area? Today’s #APB showcase by Holly Thomson & Rémi Boivin explores what happened when 2 stations in Montreal closed. 🧵👇

Check out our new publication bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Fore! Does forewarning inoculate people against the false balance effect? Legal and Criminological Psychology

In a recent interview with The Conversation, Paddy Hill describes his harrowing experience being wrongfully convicted for the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974. His story underlines how the impact of a wrongful conviction can extend far beyond exoneration. o theconversation.com/people-think...

‘People think you come out … and live happily ever after. If only.’ The reality of life after wrongful conviction

‘Sometimes I sit in the bedroom and I’m crying my eyes out like a child’

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#APB Spotlight Day 1, written by Sophie Curtis-Ham, Ryan Jones, & Cathrin Jordan, explores how we can measure police effort. Introducing the Police Response Effort Index (PREI), a new tool to quantify how much time different calls for service take. 🧵👇(1/5)

Our new meta-science collaboration on @lhb-apls.bsky.social, Statistical Reporting Practices within Forensic Psychology, under the lead of Dr. Joseph Eastwood, Dr. Kirk Luther @kirkluther.bsky.social, and Dr. Brent Snook. We examined the stats evolution of field over 20 years doi.org/10.1037/lhb0...

Research day! Our honours students Sittara and Sarah presented their thesis. 🎉

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🚨Out in Applied Cognitive Psychology🚨 The False Balance Effect: Exploring Partition Dependence as a Potential Explanation. A new empirical study by Tianshuang Han, Dr. Brent Snook, & Dr. Martin V. Day examined a psychological mechanism underlying "bothsidesism". (1/n) doi.org/10.1002/acp....

🚨Out in Applied Cognitive Psychology🚨 The False Balance Effect: Exploring Partition Dependence as a Potential Explanation. A new empirical study by Tianshuang Han, Dr. Brent Snook, & Dr. Martin V. Day examined a psychological mechanism underlying "bothsidesism". (1/n) doi.org/10.1002/acp....

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Happy New Year! Check out our new publication Your alibi better not be a-changin' with Joseph Eastwood, Mark Snow, Quintan Crough, Tianshuang Han, Brent Snook, Madi Gregory, Laura Fallon & Chris Lively at Psychology, Crime & Law www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨 Out in Journal of Criminal Psychology🚨 How does "false balance" impact our understanding of scientific consensus? A new study by Tianshuang Han, Brent Snook, & Martin V. Day dives into this, focusing on an issue regarding interrogation practices. Let's break it down. doi.org/10.1108/JCP-... 1/n

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