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​The Clinical and Legal Judgment Lab at Arizona State University conducts research on the way people think and reach decisions, and what can go wrong resulting in poor judgments. We are particularly interested in human judgment processes as they intersect with the law. We use multiple methods to study real-world behaviors, and we embrace open science practices.
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We are part of ASU's Law and Behavioral Science Initiative & the Future of Forensic Science Initiative.

Lab Updates

July 2022:        Tess Neal and Elizabeth Mathers publish with colleagues "The law meets psychological expertise: Eight best                                            practices to improve forensic psychological assessment" in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science. This paper                              accompanies an expert report. Specifically, Tess Neal testified as as expert witness alongside collaborator Kristy                                      Martire at the Joint Federal/Provincial Commission into the April 2020 Nova Scotia Mass Casualty (the "Mass Casualty                            Commission") to evaluation the quality of a particular psychological autopsy and behavioral profile. A twitter thread                                about all of this is here. Our expert report is here, and a video of our expert testimony is here. 
June 2022:       Kristen McCowan & Emily Denne pass their dissertation defenses, and are graduating this summer! Here is an ASU                                Now new story about them, the 1st graduates of our Law and Psychology PhD program.
Feb - July:       Tess Neal went to Australia for a few months on a Fulbright Scholar Award. She worked with Kristy Martire and                                          others at the University of New South Wales, and traveled around the region to develop further relationships with                                    other scholars as well. Her partner and kids went too - was an experience of a lifetime!
Feb 2022:         Tess Neal publishes a FREE edited special issue, Personality Assessments in Legal Contexts, in Journal of Personality                             Assessment. The issue provides comprehensive, credible reviews of the psychometric evidence for and legal status                               of some of the most commonly-used psychological and personality assessment measures used in forensic                                             evaluations. Twitter thread about the issue is here. The issue responds to Neal and colleagues’ (2019) call to improve 
                           the state of and access to knowledge about psychological assessments in legal contexts, and encourages critical
                           thinking about forensic assessment in the spirit of improvement. See also news coverage by the Associated
​                           Press
, NPR Phoenix Affiliate (KJZZ), andWired.
Feb 2022:          Tess Neal & Emily Denne publish "A general model of cognitive bias in human judgment and systematic review
                            specific to forensic mental health
" in Law and Human Behavior. A twitter thread is here.
Spring 2022:     Ciera Arnett, PhD student in clinical psychology at ASU, and Pamela Sandberg, J.D., join the lab!
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    • Forensic Psychology
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    • Abnormal Psychology
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