Dr. Jennifer Groscup is an Associate Professor in the psychology department at John Jay College. She is appointed to the Criminal Justice and the Forensic Psychology doctoral faculty. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology and her J.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her B.A. from Georgetown University . She is the Editor of the American Psychology-Law Society (Division 41 of the APA) Newsletter. Her research interests focus on legal decision making, primarily involving the evaluation of use of scientific evidence. She is currently completing research on jurors' use of expert testimony and the potential of legal safeguards to improve jurors' understanding of expert testimony, funded by the National Science Foundation. She is also conducting research on other aspects of expert evidence, including the effects of ultimate opinion testimony on jurors and the effects of expert characteristics on jurors. Other ongoing projects include investigations of the voir dire process in highly prejudicial cases, perceptions of sex offenders, decision making about sexual harassment, the use of information on sexual orientation by legal decision makers, and the development of scales measuring legally relevant attitudes.
