Many people believe the personal attributes of trial participants substantially impact the
decisions of juries, and considerable research has examined the extent to which …

This chapter argues that the discussion of urban sustainability is in urgent need of new
understanding of how ecosystem services are generated in places where human and non …

The psychological study of alibis is in its nascent phase, and the empirical literature on alibis
is correspondingly inchoate. This chapter reviews the current state of the literature on the …

The present experiment tested the applicability of the verifiability approach to the case of an
alibi witness. Pairs of truth tellers carried out non-criminal activities. Pairs of liars were …

This review examines the workings of jurors deciding criminal cases. It seeks not to
commend or condemn jury decision making but rather to offer an empathic exploration of the …

Despite numerous calls for more research on alibis, there remain many unanswered
questions. Three experiments tested the beliefs about and behaviors toward criminal …

Previous studies have shown that mock jurors are skeptical of alibi witnesses who are
related to or even have a close social relationship with a defendant. The present project …

The verifiability approach (VA) presents a new content-based tool for distinguishing between
truths and lies. The VA is based on the finding that truth-tellers provide more verifiable …

The present study investigated how alibi witnesses react in the face of an innocent suspect's
confession. Under the pretext of a problem-solving study, a participant and confederate …

This article reports two experiments focusing on two stages of the alibi process. In
Experiment 1, participants generated a true or false alibi for one of two dates (short or long …