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Overview

Saul M. Kassin is affiliated with John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with a strong emphasis on social psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology, political science, and international relations.

The scientist's work extensively covers several main topics including:

  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending
  • Memory processes and influences
  • Policing practices and perceptions
  • Stalking, cyberstalking, and harassment
  • Psychology of social influence
  • Psychology of moral and emotional judgment

Saul M. Kassin has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Law and Human Behavior
  • Psychology Crime and Law
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Legal and Criminological Psychology

Recent published papers include:

  • Police-induced confessions, 2.0: Risk factors and recommendations, 2025, Law and Human Behavior
  • Cumulative Disadvantage: A Psychological Framework for Understanding How Innocence Can Lead to Confession, Wrongful Conviction, and Beyond, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada, 2020, Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • The psychology of confessions: A comparison of expert and lay opinions, 2020, Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • Facts only the perpetrator could have known? A study of contamination in mock crime interrogations, 2020, Law and Human Behavior

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Saul M. Kassin are:

  • Allison D. Redlich
  • Fabiana Alceste
  • Richard A. Leo
  • Jennifer Maria Schell-Leugers
  • Kyle C Scherr

Best Publications

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

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

  • The Social Psychology of False Confessions: Compliance, Internalization, and Confabulation

    Saul M. Kassin;Katherine L. Kiechel

  • "He's guilty!": investigator bias in judgments of truth and deception.

    Christian A. Meissner;Saul M. Kassin

  • On the Power of Confession Evidence: An Experimental Test of the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis

    Saul M. Kassin;Katherine Neumann

  • On the psychology of confessions: does innocence put innocents at risk?

    Saul M. Kassin

  • Police interviewing and interrogation: a self-report survey of police practices and beliefs.

    Saul M. Kassin;Saul M. Kassin;Richard A. Leo;Christian A. Meissner;Kimberly D. Richman

  • On the "general acceptance" of eyewitness testimony research. A new survey of the experts.

    Saul M. Kassin;V. Anne Tubb;Harmon M. Hosch;Amina Memon

  • On the Relationship Between Implicit and Explicit Modes in the Learning of a Complex Rule Structure

    Arthur S. Reber;Saul M. Kassin;Selma Lewis;Gary Cantor

  • Behavioral confirmation in the interrogation room: on the dangers of presuming guilt.

    Saul M. Kassin;Christine C. Goldstein;Kenneth Savitsky

  • THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFESSION EVIDENCE

    Saul M. Kassin

  • Investigating True and False Confessions Within a Novel Experimental Paradigm

    Melissa B. Russano;Christian A. Meissner;Fadia M. Narchet;Saul M. Kassin

  • “I'm Innocent!”: Effects of Training on Judgments of Truth and Deception in the Interrogation Room

    Saul M. Kassin;Christina T. Fong

  • Coerced confessions and the jury: An experimental test of the "harmless error" rule.

    Saul M. Kassin;Holly Sukel

  • The "general acceptance" of psychological research on eyewitness testimony: A survey of the experts.

    Saul M. Kassin;Phoebe C. Ellsworth;Vicki L. Smith

  • "I'd Know a False Confession if I Saw One": A Comparative Study of College Students and Police Investigators

    Saul M. Kassin;Christian A. Meissner;Rebecca J. Norwick

  • The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives

    Saul M. Kassin;Lawrence S. Wrightsman

  • Police interrogations and confessions: Communicating promises and threats by pragmatic implication.

    Saul M. Kassin;Karlyn McNall

  • The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure

    Saul M. Kassin;Lawrence S. Wrightsman

  • Police Interviewing and Interrogation: A Self-Report Survey of Police Practices and Beliefs

    Richard A. Leo;Saul M. Kassin;Christian A. Meissner;Christian A. Meissner;Kimberly D. Richman

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Lawrence S. Wrightsman University of Kansas
Christian A. Meissner
Christian A. Meissner Iowa State University
Allison D. Redlich
Allison D. Redlich George Mason University
Gisli H. Gudjonsson
Gisli H. Gudjonsson King's College London
Itiel E. Dror
Itiel E. Dror University College London
Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Thomas Grisso
Thomas Grisso University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Amina Memon
Amina Memon Royal Holloway University of London
Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Phoebe C. Ellsworth University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Samuel R. Sommers
Samuel R. Sommers Tufts University

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