Adversarial allegiance: Frontier of forensic psychology research

A colleague recently commented on how favorably impressed he was about the open-mindedness of two other forensic examiners, who had had the ...

More studies finding bias in PCL-R measurement of psychopathy

I've been reporting for quite some time about problems with the reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R), a popular...

New evidence of psychopathy test's poor accuracy in court

Use of a controversial psychopathy test is skyrocketing in court, even as mounting evidence suggests that the prejudicial instrument is hi...

Study: Risk tools don't work with psychopaths

If you want to know whether that psychopathic fellow sitting across the table from you will commit a violent crime within the next three yea...

Forensnips aplenty, forensnips galore

Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich ...

Remarkable experiment proves pull of adversarial allegiance

  Psychologists' scoring of forensic tools depends on which side they believe has hired them A brilliant experiment has proven that adve...

Exercise: Priming students to detect covert biases

In an eye-opening exercise in my graduate forensic psychology course, I had two groups separately analyze a sanitized forensic report. The s...

SVP risk tools show 'disappointing' reliability in real-world use

Rater agreement on three instruments commonly used  to assess sex offenders' risk of recidivism is much lower in practice than reported ...