Abstract: How is eyewitness testimony affected by the presence of an audience (e.g., in a court of law)? Relevant social psychological research () leads to testing the hypothesis that people will report more central and less peripheral details ...

Abstract: Criteria-Based Content Analysis () is part of a method used for assessing the credibility of witness statements. One underlying assumption of CBCA is that deceivers will leave out certain contents that they believe will ...

Abstract: Both lay persons and professionals have been repeatedly shown to be barely above chance in detecting deception. One reason for this may be the use of common sense assumptions about indicators of deception which do not correspond to objective ...

Abstract: Despite the increased relevance of crime and sentencing in the realm of public debate and politics, investigations in public or judicial attitudes towards punishment have been rare in Germany. Social psychology can contribute to the ...

Abstract: On the basis of previous results on anchoring effects in the courtroom as well as the selective accessibility model, the current study examines whether even a partisan heckler shouting into the courtroom may influence judicial sentencing ...

Abstract: Shame and guilt are moral emotions which result from the deviation of internalized standards. They serve, in the sense of monitoring, as instances of action-control and are a condition of self-control. Shame and guilt differ with respect to ...

Abstract: An evaluation of the voluntary participation of offenders in a restitution program is confronted with the problem of whether participating offenders differ a priori in certain features from non-attending offenders (selection-bias). So far ...