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🗳️ The results are in! Congratulations to our newly elected Executive Committee leaders! We would also like to extend our appreciation to all the candidates who participated in this election. @aplssc.bsky.social

A new special issue has been released! Guest Editors Brandon Garrett, Christopher King, and David DeMatteo have put together a tremendous issue on Justice, Legitimacy, and Technology. Check out all the articles in the issue here- buff.ly/nAfY2zt @aplssc.bsky.social @ap-ls.org

Interested in being a member of the AP-LS Student Committee? Self-nominations are now open, and we have extended the deadline to July 14th! Check out the recently email disseminated to all AP-LS student affiliates for more information and the nomination ballot link. DM us with any questions!

Last month, I attended @aplssc.bsky.social in sunny San Juan! 🌤️ #APLS2025

I presented work showing that humans are worse at judging guilt based on walking style than a computer algorithm trained on the same dataset.

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Poster: tinyurl.com/devineposter...

APLS is co-sponsoring an exclusive webinar with American Psychological Association President Debra Kawahara, PhD and Chief Advocacy Officer Katherine Brunett McGuire is being held 4/17/25 3PM PT.

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Meet the AP-LS Campus Representatives! Today we have Katie Cunius from University of Nevada Reno's Interdisciplinary Social Psychology Ph.D. program.

Meet the AP-LS Campus Representatives! Today we have Destynee Blank from Spalding University's Clinical Psychology Psy.D. program.

Meet the AP-LS Campus Representatives! Today we have Rebecca Ying from Iowa State University's Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. program.

#APLS2025 has ended, we hope you all enjoyed your time with us (and San Juan)! Next year we're in Reno! #APLS2026

Hope everyone enjoyed #apls2025! See you next year in Reno for #apls2026!

Happening tomorrow morning! #APLS2025

Our PI Jan Antfolk presented research today at #APLS2025 on questions asked in official asylum interviews with sexual minorities. Findings show low use of open questions and reliance on western narratives of sexuality. Further research and training is needed!

"The Legal Intersection of Psychosis and Substance Use: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Settled Insanity" by Maya Irvin-Vitela, Ciera Arnett, & Tess Neal of the Clinical & Legal Judgment Lab.

"The current study" slide that details the primary aims of the two studies comprising this work (case-law analysis of settled insanity cases in the U.S., and an experiment with 310 forensic mental health experts as participants). This work was preregistered and materials, data, and code are available on the OSF.

Case Law Review results showing that coders with clinical science training found about 30% of the cases reviewed as having some viability for settled insanity defense from a clinical science viewpoint, contrasted with the actual legal outcome of these cases in which just one case (2% of the sample) actually had a successful settled insanity claim.

Results from experiment with forensic mental health experts, showing that mental health experts generally saw settled insanity as redundant to traditional insanity. Findings across the two studies showed legal and mental health professionals agree that acute, voluntary substance intoxication at the time of a crime generally precludes the use of an insanity defense...but cases where substance use is more distal are more complicated.

Maya Irvin-Vitela will be presenting this work in the Saturday 3/15 datablitz (5pm-6pm) in San Cristobol. This work is from Ciera Arnett's dissertation (Maya helped as a coder!). Interesting work & findings about psychosis, substance use, & insanity. #APLS2025 #Law #Psychology #PsychLaw #CLJLab

What a great @ap-ls.org Legal Scholars Committee panel on due process, procedural justice and technology. Thanks @jurygirl.bsky.social, Tom Tyler, Avital Mentovich and Brandon Garrett. #APLS2025

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Day 2 of #APLS2025 - trust, trust, and more trust! Plus a session on research & training centers featuring a presentation by the always amazing Eve Brank on my former home, Center on Children, Families & the Law. Ending the day with my personal fave at APLS - the Nebraska party. Go big red!

Psychology's Contributions to Anti-Blackness in the United States Within Psychological Research, Criminal Justice, and Mental Health - PubMed The mass incarceration of Black people in the United States is gaining attention as a public-health crisis with extreme mental-health implications. Although it is well documented that historical effor...

@anthonyperillo.bsky.social addressing how psychology has been oppressive. We haven't earned trust. Cited @evanauguste.bsky.social at al. I recommend this paper to *everyone* pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36753574/
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Today’s plenary addressed the timely topic of trust in psych, law, science, & institutions. Panelists Amy Fettig, Joe Hamm, & Anthony Perillo shared their perspectives on why trust has eroded and how to build public trust in science & legal settings. Thank you to Tess Neal for moderating! #apls2025

Extremely important @ap-ls.org announcement: This little guy is one of the booths on the second floor. A must see. He is real. Not a stuffie. 13/10. #APLS2025 @aplssc.bsky.social

The AP-LS Fun Run was fantastic! No rain's gonna cancel our fun! #APLS2025

My grad student @sydneyspy11.bsky.social did an amazing job on her @ap-ls.org talk!! @aplssc.bsky.social #APLS2025

The #APLS2025 conference has officially started! Thank you to our 2025 Conference Co-Chairs, Jenni Cox & Lori Hoetger-Fendrick, for organizing an exciting program. Thank you to our President Christian Meissner for your leadership this year. Finally, congratulations to all our award winners!

Emily Line @emily-line.bsky.social will also be presenting results from her excellent master's thesis in this session (Friday 3/14 at 8am). She was awarded an #APLS2025 "Outstanding Student Presentation in Legal Research Award" for this paper at this conference. #PsychLaw #Law #Psychology

Fantastic to be in San Juan PR for the @ap-ls.org
annual meeting. Looking forward to a fun conference, full of psychology and/ in/ of law! #APLS2025 @templelaw.bsky.social

Ashley Vaughan from UTEP-Psychology's Legal Decision Lab gave a fantastic talk for the AP-LS Student Committee's Legal Workshop! Thank you Ashley for your insight on family law!

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Research from the FBI and Villanova University provide compelling evidence that the COPS Scale is not a valid tool for detecting the innocence or guilt of people placing 911 homicide calls. Read a short summary from the authors bit.ly/3DgM3dL @pppl-journal.bsky.social

Our Student Committee Welcome Breakfast was great! Hope you all had a good time! #APLS2025

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The AP-LS Student Committee Welcome Breakfast starts this morning @ 9:30am in San Juan 1!

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Looking for corrections programming at the @ap-ls.org conference? Check out what's going on this week!

🗓️ 1 day until #APLS2025! Make sure to tag us or use #APLS2025!

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