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Overview

Itiel E. Dror is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on the intersection of cognitive and social psychology with forensic science. Their work addresses issues related to human factors, cognitive biases, and decision-making processes within forensic contexts.

Dror has published extensively in various academic journals. Recent papers include:

  • Cognitive and Human Factors in Expert Decision Making: Six Fallacies and the Eight Sources of Bias (2020), published in Analytical Chemistry
  • Cognitive bias in forensic pathology decisions (2021), published in Journal of Forensic Sciences
  • Linear Sequential Unmasking-Expanded (LSU-E): A general approach for improving decision making as well as minimizing noise and bias (2021), published in Forensic Science International Synergy
  • (Mis)use of scientific measurements in forensic science (2020), published in Forensic Science International Synergy
  • Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making (2022), published in Medicine Science and the Law

Their frequent co-authors include Jeff Kukucka, Judy Melinek, Sarah Hawkins, Daniel S. Atherton, and Jonathan L. Arden.

Dror's publications are often found in these venues:

  • Journal of Forensic Sciences
  • Forensic Science International Synergy
  • Science & Justice
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Forensic Science International Mind and Law

Their research spans a number of subfields such as social psychology, sociology and political science, genetics, cognitive neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. They focus on topics including:

  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Forensic and genetic research
  • Risk perception and management
  • Forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment
  • Medical malpractice and liability issues
  • Autopsy techniques and outcomes

Best Publications

  • The forensic confirmation bias: Problems, perspectives, and proposed solutions.

    Saul M. Kassin;Itiel E. Dror;Jeff Kukucka

  • Contextual information renders experts vulnerable to making erroneous identifications.

    Itiel E. Dror;David Charlton;Ailsa E. Péron

  • Why Experts Make Errors

    Itiel E. Dror;David Charlton

  • Subjectivity and bias in forensic DNA mixture interpretation

    Itiel E. Dror;Greg Hampikian

  • To be or Not to be: The Effects of Aging Stereotypes on the Will to Live:

    Becca Levy;Ori Ashman;Itiel Dror

  • Mental Imagery and Aging

    Itiel E. Dror;Stephen M. Kosslyn

  • The need for a research culture in the forensic sciences

    Jennifer L. Mnookin;Simon A. Cole;Itiel E. Dror;Barry A J Fisher

  • When emotions get the better of us: the effect of contextual top-down processing on matching fingerprints

    Itiel E. Dror;Ailsa E. Péron;Sara-Lynn Hind;David Charlton

  • Meta‐analytically Quantifying the Reliability and Biasability of Forensic Experts

    Itiel E. Dror;Robert Rosenthal

  • Cognitive and Human Factors in Expert Decision Making: Six Fallacies and the Eight Sources of Bias

    Itiel E Dror

  • The vision in “blind” justice: Expert perception, judgment, and visual cognition in forensic pattern recognition

    Itiel E. Dror;Simon A. Cole

  • Decision making under time pressure: An independent test of sequential sampling models

    Itiel E. Dror;Beth Basola;Jerome R. Busemeyer

  • Letter to the Editor- Context Management Toolbox: A Linear Sequential Unmasking (LSU) Approach for Minimizing Cognitive Bias in Forensic Decision Making.

    Itiel E. Dror;J.D. William C. Thompson Ph.D.;Christian A. Meissner;Irv Kornfield

  • Optimising the Use of Note-Taking as an External Cognitive Aid for Increasing Learning.

    Tamas Makany;Jonathan Kemp;Itiel E. Dror;Itiel E. Dror

  • Technology enhanced learning: The good, the bad, and the ugly

    Itiel E. Dror

  • Cognitive bias in forensic anthropology: Visual assessment of skeletal remains is susceptible to confirmation bias

    Sherry Nakhaeizadeh;Itiel E. Dror;Ruth M. Morgan

  • Cognitive Bias and Blindness: A Global Survey of Forensic Science Examiners

    Jeff Kukucka;Saul M. Kassin;Patricia A. Zapf;Itiel E. Dror

  • Cognitive issues in fingerprint analysis: inter- and intra-expert consistency and the effect of a 'target' comparison.

    Itiel E. Dror;Christophe Champod;Glenn Langenburg;David Charlton

  • Visual-spatial abilities of pilots

    Itiel E Dror;Stephen Michael Kosslyn;Wayne L Waag

  • Mental imagery and aging.

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  • The Need for a Research Culture in the Forensic Sciences

    Jennifer Mnookin;Simon A. Cole;Itiel Dror;Barry A. J. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Saul M. Kassin
Saul M. Kassin John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
Bruce Budowle
Bruce Budowle University of North Texas Health Science Center
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal University of California, Riverside
Romola S. Bucks
Romola S. Bucks University of Western Australia
Daniel C. Murrie
Daniel C. Murrie University of Virginia
Philip J. Kellman
Philip J. Kellman University of California, Los Angeles
David J. Balding
David J. Balding University of Melbourne
Montgomery Slatkin
Montgomery Slatkin University of California, Berkeley
Terence P. Speed
Terence P. Speed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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