Beliefs and Expectancies in Legal Decision Making

Bradley D. McAuliff, JD, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at California State University, Northridge, USA. He is Associate Editor of the journal Law & Human Behavior.Brian H. Bornstein, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Courtesy Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He is co-editor of the journal Psychology, Crime & Law.

• 1. Introduction: Beliefs and expectancies in legal decision making Bradley D. McAuliff and Brian H. Bornstein 2. Beliefs about alibis and alibi investigations: a survey of law enforcement Jennifer E. Dysart and Deryn Strange 3. Do jurors get what they expect? Traditional versus alternative forms of children’s testimony Bradley D. McAuliff and Margaret Bull Kovera 4. The effects of mock jurors’ beliefs about eyewitness performance on trial judgments Tess M.S. Neal, Ashley Christiansen, Brian H. Bornstein and Timothy R. Robicheaux 5. Minimization and maximization techniques: assessing the perceived consequences of confessing and confession diagnosticity Allyson J. Horgan, Melissa B. Russano, Christian A. Meissner and Jacqueline R. Evans 6. Perceptions of sexual assault: expectancies regarding the emotional response of a rape victim over time Marc A. Klippenstine and Regina Schuller 7. Terminating parental rights: the relation of judicial experience and expectancy-related factors to risk perceptions in child protection cases Alicia Summers, Sophia Gatowski and Shirley Dobbin 8. Attorney and lay beliefs about factors affecting jurors’ perceptions of juvenile offender culpability Catherine R. Camilletti and Matthew H. Scullin