In the late 1980s into the 1990s in the United States, there was a shocking wave of cases where day care workers in multiple states were accused of sexually abusing children in their care. All of these were common features of these unrelated cases, EXCEPT for:

If one were to replicate the experiment on lie detection by Bond and DePaulo (2006) today, they would hypothesize that people’s ability to distinguish between someone telling the truth and someone telling a lie is:

There have been studies on the use of anatomically detailed dolls as props when questioning children who are suspected of having been victims of sexual abuse. What can you conclude about the research findings?

When a confession exists, how often do juries come back with a conviction?

Which type of evidence is MOST likely to produce a conclusive forensic identification?

According to research studies, which form of evidence is the MOST incriminating or likely to lead to a conviction?

In various research studies examining the impact of coerced false confessions, how would one compare the likelihood of guilty verdicts between jurors from actual trials compared to mock jurors?

According to the story model, when do jurors construct their stories of the evidence in a case?

Which type of legal issue is BEST addressed by the expertise of developmental psychologists?

Liam is a 4-year-old who is being questioned by his mom about his physical contact with a visitor to Liam’s day care center. Even though the visitor never touched Liam, the mother keeps asking which part of Liam’s body the visitor touched first. Liam is likely to: