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2000 PhD, The New School for Social Research, New York
1994 MA, The New School for Social Research, New York
1990 BA, Psychology, Hunter College of the City University of New York |
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Research interests: Eyewitness Identification and Testimony, Expert Testimony, Juror Decision Making, Persuasive Processes and Information Processing, Stereotypes, Legal Processes (Adversarial vs. Inquisitorial), and Pre-Trial Publicity.
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Rafaële Dumas earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, with a minor in Sociology, from Université Rennes 2 in France. She began her career as a researcher by working on criminals’ visage stereotypes. She continued in the master’s program in a student exchange program between France (Université Rennes 2) and Quebec (Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada). Her research work turned toward the influence of expert testimony on jurors’ verdicts and decision making processes. She continued her research in the doctoral program of the Université Rennes 2. Her dissertation examined juror decision making processes. More specifically, the goal was to test the decision making model called Story Model (Pennington & Hastie, 1993), which was developed and validated in the US adversarial context and in the French inquisitorial context. At the same time, she continued her research on the impact of visage stereotypes and collaborated on different works dealing with expert testimony influence and PTP impact on verdicts. To conduct these studies, the experimental method was used as well as content analysis of archival data or newspaper articles. After she obtained her PhD, Rafaële joined John Jay College to work with Steve Penrod on a post-doctorate. She taught Social Psychology, Statistical Psychology and Research Methodology for five years at Université Rennes 2. She is currently teaching Experimental Psychology at John Jay College.
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