Forensic Psychology

She shifted from laboratory work to using "real world" situations of criminal court cases.

After witnessing a crime or accident there may be opportunities for witnesses to interact and share information.

It was first developed by Elizabeth Loftus and her undergraduate student Jim Coan, as support for the thesis that it is possible to implant entirely false memories in people.

In the field of forensic psychology, researchers have validated the weapon focus effect and shown that a witness will remember less about a crime, or the perpetrator of a crime, when a weapon is present, as opposed to if the weapon is not present at an identical crime.

The CSI effect is a supposed shift in the attitudes of jurors due to the exaggerated portrayal of forensic science on television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which premiered in 2000.

A false confession is an admission of guilt for a crime which the individual did not commit.

The Rashomon effect is the phenomenon of the unreliability of eyewitnesses.

The Wells effect describes an empirical disconnect between people's judgment of guilt in a trial setting, and both the mathematical and subjective probability involving guilt.

Bias of jurors occurs when verdicts and sentencing recommendations by jurors are influenced by factors other than the legal evidence presented at trial.

At the University of Liverpool, David V. Canter is credited with the creation of the term investigative psychology, a sub-specialization of forensic psychology that pertains to of criminal behavior and the investigative process.

It is a subfield of criminology, forensic psychology, and applied psychology.

with his wife Elizabeth Holloway, invented an early prototype of the polygraph

Hugo Münsterberg (; German: [ˈmʏnstɐbɛʁk]; June 1, 1863 - December 16, 1916) was a German-American psychologist.

In psychology and psychiatry, acting out is the expression of one's emotion by physical movement, especially ones perceived as socially inappropriate or anti-social.

Ganser syndrome is a rare dissociative disorder characterized by nonsensical or wrong answers to questions and other dissociative symptoms such as fugue, amnesia or conversion disorder, often with visual pseudohallucinations and a decreased state of consciousness.

Factitious disorder imposed on self (FDIS), commonly called Munchausen syndrome, is a complex mental disorder in which an individual imitates symptoms of illness in order to elicit attention, sympathy, or physical care.

Factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA), also known as fabricated or induced illness by carers (FII) or medical child abuse, and originally named Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP) after Munchausen syndrome, are terms used to describe a situation in which a caregiver creates the appearance of health problems in another person.

Malingering is the intentional fabrication, feigning, or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms to obtain an external benefit, such as personal gain, relief from duty or work, avoidance of arrest, acquisition of medication, or mitigation of criminal sentencing.

David Victor Canter (born 5 January 1944) is a British psychologist known for his contributions to environmental psychology, behaviour in emergencies, forensic psychology, and investigative psychology.

Ronald Roesch (born 1947) is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.

Amina Memon (born 1961) is a social and cognitive psychologist, academic, and author.

Gísli Hannes Guðjónsson, CBE (born 26 October 1947) is an Icelandic-British academic, educator, forensic psychologist and former detective.

He is a board-certified forensic psychologist, worked as a senior consultant to the U.S.