Bio
I have a longstanding interest in the way that expectations influence judgments and behaviors in a variety of socially important contexts, including interrogation rooms, courtrooms, crime labs, classrooms, and families. My work has demonstrated how social influence processes and expectations can lead innocent suspects to confess, jurors to wrongfully convict defendants, forensic experts to make mistakes, teachers to shape students’ performance and educational outcomes, and parents to influence their children’s drinking behavior. I retired from the psychology department at Iowa State University after 23 years of service and then moved to sunny Arizona where I am currently a professor at Arizona State University in the School of Interdisciplinary Forensics and Law and Behavioral Sciences program.