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Overview

Gisli H. Gudjonsson is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in Psychology, Medicine, and Neuroscience. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research has emphasized several key topics, including:

  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending
  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Autism spectrum disorder research
  • Memory processes and influences
  • Child abuse and trauma

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Females with ADHD: An expert consensus statement taking a lifespan approach providing guidance for the identification and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in girls and women" (2020, BMC Psychiatry)
  • "Guidance for identification and treatment of individuals with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder based upon expert consensus" (2020, BMC Medicine)
  • "Police-induced confessions, 2.0: Risk factors and recommendations." (2025, Law and Human Behavior)
  • "Failure of Healthcare Provision for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the United Kingdom: A Consensus Statement" (2021, Frontiers in Psychiatry)
  • "University students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): a consensus statement from the UK Adult ADHD Network (UKAAN)" (2022, BMC Psychiatry)

Gudjonsson has frequently published in venues such as BMC Psychiatry, Frontiers in Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, BMC Medicine, and Frontiers in Psychiatry.

The scientist has collaborated multiple times with co-authors including Susan Young, Jack Hollingdale, Emma Woodhouse, William Colley, and Sally Cubbin.

Best Publications

  • The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions: A Handbook

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • Police-induced confessions: risk factors and recommendations.

    Saul M. Kassin;Steven A. Drizin;Thomas Grisso;Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • The psychology of confessions - A review of the literature and issues

    S M Kassin;Gisli Gudjonsson

  • The causes and cures of criminality

    Hans J. Eysenck;Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • A new scale of interrogative suggestibility

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • The psychology of interrogations, confessions, and testimony

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • Suggestibility in police interrogation: A social psychological model.

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson;Noel K. Clark

  • Females with ADHD: An expert consensus statement taking a lifespan approach providing guidance for the identification and treatment of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder in girls and women

    Susan Young;Nicoletta Adamo;Nicoletta Adamo;Bryndís Björk Ásgeirsdóttir;Polly Branney

  • Compliance in an interrogative situation: A new scale

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • Interrogative suggestibility, confabulation, and acquiescence in people with mild learning disabilities (mental handicap): implications for reliability during police interrogations.

    I. C. H. Clare;G. H. Gudjonsson

  • A parallel form of the Gudjonsson suggestibility scale

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • Cognitive behaviour therapy in medication-treated adults with ADHD and persistent Symptoms: A randomized controlled trial

    Brynjar Emilsson;Brynjar Emilsson;Gisli Gudjonsson;Jon F Sigurdsson;Gisli Baldursson

  • Cognitive distortions and blame attribution in sex offenders against adults and children

    Stephen Blumenthal;Gisli Gudjonsson;Jan Burns

  • Persons at risk during interviews in police custody : the identification of vulnerabilities

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • Suggestibility, intelligence, memory recall and personality: an experimental study.

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • The identification and management of ADHD offenders within the criminal justice system: a consensus statement from the UK Adult ADHD Network and criminal justice agencies

    Susan J Young;Marios Adamou;Blanca Bolea;Gisli Gudjonsson

  • Differences and similarities between violent offenders and sex offenders

    Gisli H Gudjonsson;Jon F Sigurdsson

  • THE VULNERABILITY OF SUSPECTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES DURING POLICE INTERVIEWS: A REVIEW AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DECISION‐MAKING

    Isabel C.H. Clare;Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • The relationship between satisfaction with life, ADHD symptoms, and associated problems among university students.

    Gisli H Gudjonsson;Jon Fridrik Sigurdsson;Gudrun Agusta Eyjolfsdottir;Jakob Smari

  • The psychological characteristics of ‘false confessors’. A study among icelandic prison inmates and juvenile offenders

    Jon F. Sigurdsson;Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • The psychology of interrogations and confessions

    Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • The reasoning criminal. Rational choice perspectives on offending

    Gisli Gudjonsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Young
Susan Young Psychology Services Limited
Jon Fridrik Sigurdsson
Jon Fridrik Sigurdsson University of Iceland
Isabel C. H. Clare
Isabel C. H. Clare University of Cambridge
Hans J. Eysenck
Hans J. Eysenck King's College London
Saul M. Kassin
Saul M. Kassin John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Lucy A. Henry
Lucy A. Henry City, University of London
Robin G. Morris
Robin G. Morris King's College London
Thomas Grisso
Thomas Grisso University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Pamela J. Taylor
Pamela J. Taylor Cardiff University
Allison D. Redlich
Allison D. Redlich George Mason University

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