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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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Lab Updates
Dec 2020: Tess Neal interviewed by the Master's in Psychology podcast about ASU's programs in law and psychology & the
Clinical and Legal Judgment Lab. The podcast is syndicated on 40+ platforms and is a "Top 15" Psychology Podcast
Dec 2020: Tess Neal's Fulbright Scholar application for 2021-2022 was selected for funding - it now advances to the next stages
of review to determine whether it will actually be funded!
June 2020: Tess Neal interviewed for NPR's Hidden Brain podcast about the psychological assessment evidence in the Fred Clay case.
June 2020: Tess Neal invited to write a review article on "The Law Meets Psychological Expertise" for the Annual Review of Law
and Social Science.
June 2020: ASU President's Award for Innovation awarded to Law & Behavioral Science group founders (Nick Schweitzer, Hank Fradella, Michael Saks, Jose Ashford, Jessica Salerno, Tess Neal, Tosha Ruggles, & Todd Sandrin).
May 2020: Tess Neal named a PLuS Alliance Fellow. PLuS is an alliance between ASU, King’s College London, & UNSW Sydney
to focus research capacities on global challenges & provide world-class higher education in high-need areas..
May 2020: Tess Neal presented "Legally-Required Scrutiny of Psychological Assessment Evidence is Rare" at Duke University's
Center for Science and Justice
May 2020: Tess Neal presented a paper at the annual (virtual this year) Law and Society Association conference in Denver, CO.
She also served as discussant in the symposium titled "New Directions in the Psychological Study of Access-to-
Justice and Civil Justice Design" at the conference.
May 2020: Graduates of the lab move on to their next steps. Annelissee Velazquez headed to the University of Dayton School of
Law, where she received a full tuition scholarship, the Dean's Advisory Council Award, and is part of the Leadership
Honors Program. Sarah Selman headed to Baylor University to pursue her Master's in Social Work with a clinical
concentration and a corrections emphasis, where she received the AmeriCorps University Partnership tuition
remission award as well as a graduate stipend. Emily Line headed to pursue her PhD in psychology at the University
of Illinois after fielding multiple offers of admission.
Mar 2020: CLJ lab members presented 10 paper presentations and 1 poster at the annual American Psychology-Law
Society conference in New Orleans, LA. Our lab organized two symposia ("Legal Scrutiny of Psychological Assessment Evidence" and "Calibration in Court: Jurors' Just of Scientific Information") and we were part of two other symposia as well as one poster session.
Feb 2020: "Psychological Assessments in Legal Contexts: Are Courts Keeping "Junk Science" Out of the Courtroom?" by Tess
Neal, Christopher Slobogin, Michael Saks, David Faigman, and Kurt Geisinger published in the high-impact journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest. It was selected for a special press briefing at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and subsequently received
widespread media attention. It was covered by more than 500 newspapers, including The New York Times,
Washington Post, Washington Times, Toronto Star (largest Canadian newspaper), Dagens Nyheter (largest Swedish
newspaper), U.S. News and World Report, and local newspapers in more than 30 U.S. states (e.g., Minneapolis Star-
Tribune, Boston Herald, Kansas City Star, San Francisco Chronicle). It was covered by television news stations,
including ABC National News and local television news stations in at least 20 U.S. states, and was covered
internationally, such as by CTN News (Canadian Television Network, Canada’s largest and highest-rated network, and
the Toronto City News). Radio covered it too, including NPR Phoenix Affiliate (KJZZ), dozens of local stations across
the U.S., and several Canadian stations (e.g., News 1130 in Vancouver, BC; 660 News in Calgary, AL; 680 News in
Toronto, ON). It was featured in various news mazagines, such as Wired, New Scientist (British), The
Atlantic (forthcoming), Der Speigel (German, forthcoming), in various blogs, such as Forensic
Psychology and PsycCentral, Finally, podcasts are pending, including National Public Radio’s (NPR) Short Wave
science podcast andThe Economist’s Babbage podcast .
Jan 2020: Tess Neal awarded ASU Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor, based on CLJ Lab students' nomination.
Sept 2019: Tess Neal presented "Developing an Integrated Model of Bias in Human Judgment" at Princeton University's Social
Research Seminar (Social Talk Series)
Apr 2019: PhD student Emily Denne was awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - we are incredibly excited for her!
Clinical and Legal Judgment Lab. The podcast is syndicated on 40+ platforms and is a "Top 15" Psychology Podcast
Dec 2020: Tess Neal's Fulbright Scholar application for 2021-2022 was selected for funding - it now advances to the next stages
of review to determine whether it will actually be funded!
June 2020: Tess Neal interviewed for NPR's Hidden Brain podcast about the psychological assessment evidence in the Fred Clay case.
June 2020: Tess Neal invited to write a review article on "The Law Meets Psychological Expertise" for the Annual Review of Law
and Social Science.
June 2020: ASU President's Award for Innovation awarded to Law & Behavioral Science group founders (Nick Schweitzer, Hank Fradella, Michael Saks, Jose Ashford, Jessica Salerno, Tess Neal, Tosha Ruggles, & Todd Sandrin).
May 2020: Tess Neal named a PLuS Alliance Fellow. PLuS is an alliance between ASU, King’s College London, & UNSW Sydney
to focus research capacities on global challenges & provide world-class higher education in high-need areas..
May 2020: Tess Neal presented "Legally-Required Scrutiny of Psychological Assessment Evidence is Rare" at Duke University's
Center for Science and Justice
May 2020: Tess Neal presented a paper at the annual (virtual this year) Law and Society Association conference in Denver, CO.
She also served as discussant in the symposium titled "New Directions in the Psychological Study of Access-to-
Justice and Civil Justice Design" at the conference.
May 2020: Graduates of the lab move on to their next steps. Annelissee Velazquez headed to the University of Dayton School of
Law, where she received a full tuition scholarship, the Dean's Advisory Council Award, and is part of the Leadership
Honors Program. Sarah Selman headed to Baylor University to pursue her Master's in Social Work with a clinical
concentration and a corrections emphasis, where she received the AmeriCorps University Partnership tuition
remission award as well as a graduate stipend. Emily Line headed to pursue her PhD in psychology at the University
of Illinois after fielding multiple offers of admission.
Mar 2020: CLJ lab members presented 10 paper presentations and 1 poster at the annual American Psychology-Law
Society conference in New Orleans, LA. Our lab organized two symposia ("Legal Scrutiny of Psychological Assessment Evidence" and "Calibration in Court: Jurors' Just of Scientific Information") and we were part of two other symposia as well as one poster session.
Feb 2020: "Psychological Assessments in Legal Contexts: Are Courts Keeping "Junk Science" Out of the Courtroom?" by Tess
Neal, Christopher Slobogin, Michael Saks, David Faigman, and Kurt Geisinger published in the high-impact journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest. It was selected for a special press briefing at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and subsequently received
widespread media attention. It was covered by more than 500 newspapers, including The New York Times,
Washington Post, Washington Times, Toronto Star (largest Canadian newspaper), Dagens Nyheter (largest Swedish
newspaper), U.S. News and World Report, and local newspapers in more than 30 U.S. states (e.g., Minneapolis Star-
Tribune, Boston Herald, Kansas City Star, San Francisco Chronicle). It was covered by television news stations,
including ABC National News and local television news stations in at least 20 U.S. states, and was covered
internationally, such as by CTN News (Canadian Television Network, Canada’s largest and highest-rated network, and
the Toronto City News). Radio covered it too, including NPR Phoenix Affiliate (KJZZ), dozens of local stations across
the U.S., and several Canadian stations (e.g., News 1130 in Vancouver, BC; 660 News in Calgary, AL; 680 News in
Toronto, ON). It was featured in various news mazagines, such as Wired, New Scientist (British), The
Atlantic (forthcoming), Der Speigel (German, forthcoming), in various blogs, such as Forensic
Psychology and PsycCentral, Finally, podcasts are pending, including National Public Radio’s (NPR) Short Wave
science podcast andThe Economist’s Babbage podcast .
Jan 2020: Tess Neal awarded ASU Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor, based on CLJ Lab students' nomination.
Sept 2019: Tess Neal presented "Developing an Integrated Model of Bias in Human Judgment" at Princeton University's Social
Research Seminar (Social Talk Series)
Apr 2019: PhD student Emily Denne was awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - we are incredibly excited for her!
