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Strategies for Preventing False Confessions and Their Consequences

PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS, Mark R. Kebbell and Graham M. Davies, eds., Wiley & Sons, 2006, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-20

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2011

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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From False Confession to Wrongful Conviction: Seven Psychological Processes

Journal of Psychiatry and Law, 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-28

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2010

Richard A. Leo and Deborah Davis

University of San Francisco and University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology

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Mental Health and False Confessions

in Elizabeth Kelley, ed., Representing People With Mental Disabilities (2018 Forthcoming), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2017-16

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 30 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2017

William C. Follette, Richard A. Leo and Deborah Davis

University of Nevada, Reno, University of San Francisco and University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology

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Interrogations and Confessions

in Jay Albanese, ed., THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIMINOLOGY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE (John Wiley & Sons 2014)., Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2014

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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The Problem of Interrogation-Induced False Confession: Sources of Failure in Prevention and Detection

In Stephen Morewitz & Mark Goldstein, eds., The Handbook of Forensic Sociology and Psychology (Springer, 2013 Forthcoming), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2012-28

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 May 2012 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2013

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Misinformation Effect in Older versus Younger Adults: A Meta-Analysis and Review

Chapter 2 IN: The Elderly Eyewitness in Court, UK: Psychology Press, 2014, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2014-66

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Nov 2014

Lindsey E. Wylie, Lawrence Patihis, Leslie McCuller, Deborah Davis, Eve Brank, Elizabeth F. Loftus and Brian Bornstein

University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Portsmouth University, University of Nebraska at Lincoln - Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology, Law-Psychology Program, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychological Science and University of Nebraska at Lincoln - Department of Psychology

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Disputed Interrogation Techniques in America: True and False Confessions and the Estimation and Valuation of Type I and II Errors

in Sarah Cooper, ed., Controversies in Innocence Cases in America (Ashgate Publishing 2014)., Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2013-27

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2014

Deborah Davis, Richard A. Leo and Michael Williams

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology, University of San Francisco and Georgia State University

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His Story, Her Story: Sexual Miscommunication, Motivated Remembering, and Intoxication as Pathways to Honest False Testimony Regarding Sexual Consent

in R. Burnett, ed., Vilified: Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, Forthcoming)., Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2014-33

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2015

J. Guillermo Villalobos, Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno, University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Interrogation Through Pragmatic Implication: Sticking to the Letter of the Law While Violating its Intent

in Lawrence Solan & Peter Tiersma, eds. Oxford Handbook on Language and the Law (Oxford University Press 2012). , Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-13

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2014

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Acute Suggestibility in Police Interrogation: Self-Regulation Failure as a Primary Mechanism of Vulnerability

in Anne Ridley, ed., Suggestibility in Legal Contexts: Psychological Research and Forensic Applications, (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2013). , Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 11 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2016

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Three Prongs of the Confession Problem: Issues and Proposed Solutions

in Carol Henderson & Jules Epstein, eds., The Future of Evidence: How Science and Technology Will Change The Practice of Law (ABA 2011).

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2014

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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‘Interrogation-Related Regulatory Decline:’ Ego-Depletion, Failures of Self-Regulation and the Decision to Confess

Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2011-24

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2011

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Remembering Disputed Sexual Encounters: A New Frontier for Witness Memory Research

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 105, No. 4, 2015, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2017-03

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 01 Feb 2017

Deborah Davis and Elizabeth F. Loftus

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychological Science

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A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors: Flaws in Homicide Investigation in the USA

Fiona Bookman & Ed Maguire, eds., The Handbook on Homicide, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016, Forthcoming , Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2016-02

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2016

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Change Blindness Can Cause Mistaken Eyewitness Identification

Legal and Criminological Psychology, Vol. 16, pp. 62-74, 2011, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2011-09

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Feb 2011

Kally J. Nelson, Kally J. Nelson, Cara Laney, Nicci Bowman-Fowler, Eric D. Knowles, Deborah Davis and Elizabeth F. Loftus

Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga WakaUniversity of California, Irvine - Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, Reed College, Psychology, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychological Science

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'Unconscious Transference' Can Be an Instance of 'Change Blindness'

Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 22, pp. 605-623, 2008, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2008-09

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2010

Deborah Davis, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Samuel Vanous and Michael Cucciare

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology, University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychological Science, University of Utah and Stanford University - School of Medicine

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Interrogative Suggestibility

in Demosthenes Lorandos, ed. The Litigator’s Handbook of Forensic Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychology (Thomson Reuters, 2021 Forthcoming), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2021-08

Number of pages: 117 Posted: 27 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2022

Laura Nirider, Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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When Exoneration Seems Hopeless: The Special Vulnerability of Sexual Abuse Suspects to False Confession

Ros Burnett, ed., Wrongful Allegations of Person Abuse, Oxford Univ. Press, 2015, Forthcoming, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2014-25

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2014

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Interrogation and the Sexual Assault Suspect: On the Synergy between Pretext Caller and Police Interrogator

Nadine Deslauriers-Varin & Craig Bennell, eds., Criminal Investigations of Sexual Offenses: Investigative Techniques and Operational Challenges (Springer, Forthcoming), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2021-07

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2021

Deborah Davis, Richard A. Leo, Tyler Livingston and Peter Rerick

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology, University of San Francisco, University of Nevada, Reno and University of Nevada, Reno

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To Walk in Their Shoes: The Problem of Missing, Misunderstood, and Misrepresented Context in Judging Criminal Confessions

46 New England Law Review 737 (2011-2012), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2012-22

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2014

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Selling Confession: Setting the Stage with the ‘Sympathetic Detective with a Time-Limited Offer’

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, Forthcoming, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2010-29

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2010

Deborah Davis, Richard A. Leo and William C. Follette

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology, University of San Francisco and University of Nevada, Reno

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Commentary: Overcoming Judicial Preferences for Person- Versus Situation-Based Analyses of Interrogation-Induced Confessions

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2010, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2012-14

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 14 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2012

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Interrogation and the Infanticide Suspect: Mechanisms of Vulnerability to False Confession

Forthcoming Keith Findley, Cyrille Rossant, Kana Sasakura, Leila Schneps, Waney Squier, and Knut Wester Eds. (2022). Shaken Certainties (Cambridge University Press), Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2023

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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False Confessions and Miranda Waivers

Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper Forthcoming, Forthcoming In Elizabeth Kelley, Ed (2024). Representing People with Mental Disabilities: A Practical Guide for Criminal Defense Attorneys, 2nd Edition (Chicago: American Bar Association).

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 May 2024

William C. Follette, Richard A. Leo and Deborah Davis

University of Nevada, Reno, University of San Francisco and University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology

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Do Jurors Understand the Causes of False Confession, and Do They Adjust Their Perceptions of Suspects’ Confessions Appropriately?

Forthcoming in Gavin Oxburgh, Trond Myklebust, Mark Fallon and Maria Hartwig, Eds. (2023). Interviewing and Interrogations: A Review of Research and Practice since World War II (Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher).

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2023

Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of San Francisco

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Interrogation by Proxy: The Growing Role of Lay Interrogators in Eliciting Criminal Confessions

Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper, Criminal Law Bulletin, Volume 59, No. 4. Pp. 395-479

Number of pages: 103 Posted: 07 Aug 2023

Deborah Davis, Iris Blandon-Gitlin, Hayley Cleary, Mark Costanzo, Richard A. Leo and Stephen Margolis

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology, California State University, Fullerton, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Claremont McKenna College, University of San Francisco and California State University, Fullerton

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‘Unconscious Transference’ Can Be an Instance of ‘Change Blindness’

Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol. 22, pp. 605-623, 2008, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2009-35

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 29 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2010

Deborah Davis, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Samuel Vanous and Michael Cucciare

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology, University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychological Science, University of Utah and Stanford University - School of Medicine

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Recovered memories and false memories

Chapter IN: New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (3 edn), Edited by John R. Geddes, Nancy C. Andreasen, and Guy M. Goodwin, Oxford University Press, 2020, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2021-25

Posted: 18 May 2021

Deborah Davis and Elizabeth F. Loftus

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology and University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychological Science

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Recovered Memories

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 2, April 2006

Posted: 10 Jan 2008

Elizabeth F. Loftus and Deborah Davis

University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychological Science and University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology

Deborah Davis

University of Nevada, Reno - Department of Psychology

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