2022-23 Events and Speakers
Alia Wulff | Arizona State University
The Stressed Eyewitness: Downstream Consequences of Stress on Eyewitness Memory Accuracy
Friday October 28th 2022 | 3:00PM | BCLS 650
Lesley Zannella | Arizona State University
Public Perceptions of Exonerees and Willingness to Support their Reintegration
Friday November 4th 2022 | 3:00PM
Cortney Simmons | Yale University
Antisocial behavior in adolescence: separating myth from science
Friday November 18th 2022 | 3:00PM
Mikaela Spruill | Cornell University
Legal Inequity in Context: Theoretical and Empirical Insights into our Judgments and Decisions
Friday December 2nd 2022 | 3:00PM
Dan Simon | University of Southern California
Friday January 27 2023 | 3:00PM
Rick Trinkner | Arizona State University
Friday February 3rd 2023 | 3:00PM
Bobbie Spellman | University of Virginia
Friday February 10th 2023 | 3:00PM
Sam Sommers | Tufts University
Wednesday March 22 2023 | 12:00PM
Hal Arkes | Ohio State University
Friday April 14th 2023 | 3:00PM
Past Events
2021-2022 Speaker Series
Margaret Bull Kovera (John Jay CUNY) | Monica Miller (University of Nevada-Reno)
2020 Law and Behavioral Science Meeting
January 3, 2020 | ASU California Center | Santa Monica, CA
2019 Speaker Series
Tess Neal (ASU) | Kristy Martire (UNSW) | Stephanie Madon (Iowa State) | Max Guyll (Iowa State) | Bethany Growns (ASU)
2018-2019 Speaker Series
Adam Fine (ASU) | Eric Hehman (McGill) | Carly Giffin (ASU) | Janice Nadler (Northwestern) | Tom Tyler (Yale) | Brian Bornstein (UNL / NSF)
Recent News
Adam Fine receives NSF CAREER award to support his work on justice-involved youth
Tess Neal awarded the Samuel and Anne Beck Early Career Award from the Society for Personality Assessment
We are extremely proud to welcome Drs. Stephanie Madon, Max Guyll, and Karey O'Hara to our faculty!
ASU awarded $1.4M to house the National Science Foundation Law & Science Dissertation Grant program.
Law and Behavioral Science Initiative wins 2020 President's Award for Innovation
New research from Karey O'Hara on partner contact and stress after divorce appears in Clinical Psychological Science.
Tess Neal named Outstanding Faculty Mentor by the ASU Graduate College
Psychological Assessment in Legal Contexts: Are Courts Keeping “Junk Science” Out of the Courtroom? Read the paper or watch the AAAS Press Briefing of this major project led by Tess Neal
We are happy to welcome three new faculty members: Laura Smalarz, Karey O'Hara, and Alissa Knowles
PhD student Emily Denne awarded a 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Tess Neal writes on the history and relation of Forensic Psychology and Correctional Psychology in American Psychologist
Jessica Salerno named 2018 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science
Michael Saks was selected as the 2017 recipient of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Law and Psychology from the American Psychology-Law Society.
Jessica Salerno was selected as the 2017 recipient of the Saleem Shaw Early Career Award from the American Psychology-Law Society and American Academy of Forensic Psychology.
Hank Fradella was selected as the 2017 recipient of the Richard Tewksbury Award from the Western Society of Criminology. This award represents outstanding scholarly contributions to and activism on the intersection of crime, justice, sex, and sexuality.
Tess Neal was distinguished as a 2016 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science.