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2023

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Michael J. Saks is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. They have contributed to research primarily within the field of Computer Science, with emphases on subfields such as General Health Professions, Law, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, and Epidemiology.

Their work spans several main topics including:

  • Jury Decision Making Processes
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
  • Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
  • Algorithms and Data Compression

Michael J. Saks has authored multiple papers in various venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Mental health professional perspectives on health data sharing: Mixed methods study (2020, Health Informatics Journal)
  • The scientific reinvention of forensic science (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Mental health professionals' perceptions on patients control of data sharing (2020, Health Informatics Journal)
  • Recommendations to Inform Substance Use Disorder Data Sharing Research: Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis (2021, Journal of Addiction Medicine)
  • Reply to Response to Vacuous standards - Subversion of the OSAC standards-development process (2021, Forensic Science International Synergy)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael J. Saks are:

  • Barbara A. Spellman
  • Adela Grando
  • Julia Ivanova
  • Anita Murcko
  • Jonathan J. Koehler

Their works are commonly published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Health Informatics Journal
  • Forensic Science International Synergy
  • New York University Press eBooks
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

In 1985, Michael J. Saks was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), reflecting a formal acknowledgement by their peers in the field of psychology.

Best Publications

  • The Coming Paradigm Shift in Forensic Identification Science

    Michael J. Saks;Michael J. Saks;Jonathan J. Koehler;Jonathan J. Koehler

  • The Daubert/Kumho Implications of Observer Effects in Forensic Science: Hidden Problems of Expectation and Suggestion

    D. Michael Risinger;Michael J. Saks;William C. Thompson;Robert Rosenthal

  • Human Information Processing and Adjudication: Trial by Heuristics

    Michael Saks;Michael J Saks;Robert F Kidd

  • Modern scientific evidence : the law and science of expert testimony

    Edward K Cheng;David L. Faigman;Michael J. Saks;Joseph Sanders

  • The Individualization Fallacy in Forensic Science Evidence

    Michael J. Saks;Jonathan J. Koehler

  • Social psychology in court

    Michael J. Saks;Reid Hastie

  • Exorcism of Ignorance as a Proxy for Rational Knowledge: The Lessons of Handwriting Identification Expertise

    D. Michael Risinger;Mark P. Denbeaux;Michael J. Saks

  • Justice Improved: The Unrecognized Benefits of Aggregation and Sampling in the Trial of Mass Torts

    Michael J. Saks;Peter David Blanck

  • Merlin and Solomon: Lessons from the Law's Formative Encounters with Forensic Identification Science

    Michael J. Saks

  • Check Your Crystal Ball at the Courthouse Door, Please: Exploring the Past, Understanding the Present, and Worrying About the Future of Scientific Evidence

    David L. Faigman;Elise Porter;Michael J. Saks

  • 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

  • Neuroimages as evidence in a mens rea defense: No impact.

    Nicholas Schweitzer;Michael Saks;Emily R. Murphy;Adina L. Roskies

  • The CSI Effect: Popular Fiction About Forensic Science Affects the Public's Expectations About Real Forensic Science

    Michael Saks;Nicholas J Schweitzer;Michael J Saks

  • Children’s Competence to Consent

    Gary B. Melton

  • Decisionmaking About General Damages: A Comparison of Jurors, Judges, And Lawyers

    Roselle L. Wissler;Allen J. Hart;Michael J. Saks

  • A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Jury Size

    Michael J. Saks;Mollie Weighner Marti

  • Context effects in forensic science: a review and application of the science of science to crime laboratory practice in the United States.

    Michael Saks;D. M. Risinger;R. Rosenthal;W. C. Thompson

  • Juror Judgments about Liability and Damages: Sources of Viriability and Ways to Increase Consistency

    Shari Seidman Diamond;Michael J. Saks;Stephan Landsman

  • Do We Really Know Anything About the Behavior of the Tort Litigation System-And Why Not

    Michael J. Saks

  • What DNA 'Fingerprinting' Can Teach the Law About the Rest of Forensic Science

    Jonathan J. Koehler;Michael J. Saks

  • Science and Nonscience in the Courts: Daubert Meets Handwriting Identification Expertise

    D. Michael Risinger;Michael J. Saks

  • Neuroimage evidence and the insanity defense.

    Nicholas Schweitzer;Michael Saks

  • Evidence Scholarship Reconsidered: Results of the Interdisciplinary Turn

    Roger C. Park;Michael J. Saks

  • Be Careful What You Wish For: The Paradoxical Effects of Bifurcating Claims for Punitive Damages

    MJ Saks;Linda Dimitropoulos;S Diamond;S Landsman

  • The testimony of forensic identification science: what expert witnesses say and what factfinders hear.

    Dawn McQuiston-Surrett;Michael J. Saks

  • On the inefficacy of limiting instructions - When jurors use prior conviction evidence to decide on guilt

    Roselle L. Wissler;Michael J. Saks

  • An integration theory analysis of jurors' presumptions of guilt or innocence.

    Thomas M. Ostrom;Carol Werner;Michael J. Saks

  • Failed Forensics: How Forensic Science Lost Its Way and How it Might Yet Find it

    Michael J. Saks;David L. Faigman

Frequent Co-Authors

Shari Seidman Diamond
Shari Seidman Diamond Northwestern University
Robert Rosenthal
Robert Rosenthal University of California, Riverside
Neil Vidmar
Neil Vidmar Duke University
Reid Hastie
Reid Hastie University of Chicago
Gary B. Melton
Gary B. Melton University of Colorado Denver
Arturo Casadevall
Arturo Casadevall Johns Hopkins University
Steven L. Neuberg
Steven L. Neuberg Arizona State University
Barbara E. Bierer
Barbara E. Bierer Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peter Blanck
Peter Blanck Syracuse University
Thomas D. Albright
Thomas D. Albright Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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