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Overview

Brian H. Bornstein is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research focuses broadly on social sciences and psychology, with key subfields including law, social psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and economics and econometrics.

Their main topics of work cover several areas:

  • Jury Decision Making Processes
  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Legal Education and Practice Innovations

Brian H. Bornstein has published in a variety of venues. Their frequent publication outlets include:

  • Psychology Crime and Law
  • Psychiatry Psychology and Law
  • Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Criminology

Selected recent papers by Bornstein include:

  • JUST: a measure of jury system trustworthiness, 2020, Psychology Crime and Law
  • The Perception of a Jailhouse Informant in a Sexual Assault Case, 2020, Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
  • How mock jurors' cognitive processing and defendants' immigrant status and ethnicity relate to decisions in capital trials, 2020, Journal of Experimental Criminology
  • Do Judicial Instructions Aid in Distinguishing Between Reliable and Unreliable Jailhouse Informants?, 2020, Criminal Justice and Behavior
  • The truth about snitches: an archival analysis of informant testimony, 2020, Psychiatry Psychology and Law

Coauthorship is a notable aspect of Bornstein's work. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jeffrey S. Neuschatz
  • Monica K. Miller
  • Stacy A. Wetmore
  • Melanie B. Fessinger
  • Jonathan M. Golding

They have contributed to published books as well, with one publication under Springer International Publishing titled Advances in Psychology and Law (2020).

Best Publications

  • The ecological validity of jury simulations: Is the jury still out?

    Brian H. Bornstein

  • A meta-analytic review of the effects of high stress on eyewitness memory.

    Kenneth A. Deffenbacher;Brian H. Bornstein;Steven D. Penrod;E. Kiernan McGorty

  • Rationality in medical decision making: a review of the literature on doctors' decision-making biases

    Brian H. Bornstein;A. Christine Emler

  • The More You Ask For, the More You Get: Anchoring in Personal Injury Verdicts

    Gretchen B. Chapman;Brian H. Bornstein

  • Mock juror sampling issues in jury simulation research: A meta-analysis.

    Brian H. Bornstein;Jonathan M. Golding;Jeffrey Neuschatz;Christopher Kimbrough

  • Mugshot Exposure Effects: Retroactive Interference, Mugshot Commitment, Source Confusion, and Unconscious Transference

    Kenneth A. Deffenbacher;Brian H. Bornstein;Steven D. Penrod

  • Just Deserts: An Experimental Study of Distributive Justice Norms

    John T. Scott;Richard E. Matland;Philip A. Michelbach;Brian H. Bornstein

  • Registered Replication Report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990)

    V. K. Alogna;M. K. Attaya;P. Aucoin;Š. Bahník

  • Forgetting the once-seen face: estimating the strength of an eyewitness's memory representation.

    Kenneth A. Deffenbacher;Brian H. Bornstein;E. Kiernan McGorty;Steven D. Penrod

  • Doing Rawls Justice: An Experimental Study of Income Distribution Norms

    Philip A. Michelbach;John T. Scott;Richard E. Matland;Brian H. Bornstein

  • Choosing a doctor: an exploratory study of factors influencing patients’ choice of a primary care doctor

    Brian H. Bornstein;David Marcus;William Cassidy

  • "I know I know it, I know I saw it": The stability of the confidence-accuracy relationship across domains

    Brian H. Bornstein;Douglas J. Zickafoose

  • Repeated testing in eyewitness memory : A means to improve recall of a negative emotional event

    Brian H. Bornstein;Lesley M. Liebel;Nikki C. Scarberry

  • Barriers to physicians' decisions to discuss hospice: insights gained from the United States hospice model

    E. Kiernan McGorty;Brian H. Bornstein

  • Web-based research: Methodological variables’ effects on dropout and sample characteristics

    Kevin M. O’Neil;Steven D. Penrod;Brian H. Bornstein

  • Child abuse in the eyes of the beholder: lay perceptions of child sexual and physical abuse.

    Brian H. Bornstein;Debra L. Kaplan;Andrea R. Perry

  • Jury Decision Making: Implications For and From Psychology

    Brian H. Bornstein;Edie Greene

  • From Compassion to Compensation: The Effect of Injury Severity on Mock Jurors’ Liability Judgments

    Brian H. Bornstein

  • Extra-Legal Factors and Product Liability: The Influence of Mock Jurors’ Demographic Characteristics and Intuitions about the Cause of an Injury

    Brian H. Bornstein;Michelle Rajki

  • The effects of Victim's substance use and relationship closeness on mock jurors' judgments in an acquaintance rape case

    Ashley A. Wenger;Brian H. Bornstein

  • Emotion and the Law: A Framework for Inquiry

    Richard L. Wiener;Brian H. Bornstein;Amy Voss

  • The Impact of Different Types of Expert Scientific Testimony on Mock Jurors’ Liability Verdicts

    Brian H. Bornstein

  • Learning lessons from sunk costs

    Brian H. Bornstein;Gretchen B. Chapman

  • Reducing courts' failure-to-appear rate by written reminders

    Brian H. Bornstein;Alan J. Tomkins;Elizabeth M. Neeley;Mitchel N. Herian

  • Determining Damages: The Psychology of Jury Awards

    Edie Greene;Brian H. Bornstein

  • Jurors of the Absurd? The Role of Consequentiality in Jury Simulation Research

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  • Web-based research: Methodological variables' effects on dropout and sample characteristicsWeb-based research: Methodological variables' effects on dropout and sample characteristics

    Kevin M. O'Neil;Steven D. Penrod;Brian H. Bornstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven D. Penrod
Steven D. Penrod John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Edith Greene
Edith Greene University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Christian A. Meissner
Christian A. Meissner Iowa State University
Gretchen B. Chapman
Gretchen B. Chapman Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan M. Golding
Jonathan M. Golding University of Kentucky
David DiLillo
David DiLillo University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lesa Hoffman
Lesa Hoffman University of Iowa
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine
Carmen P. McLean
Carmen P. McLean Stanford University
Nick Haslam
Nick Haslam University of Melbourne

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