Saul Kassin
Saul
Kassin
Distinguished Professor
Phone number
646.557.4505
Room number
10.63.06 NB
Education

1978 PHD Personality and Social Psychology, University of Connecticut
1976 MA Personality and Social Psychology, University of Connecticut

Bio

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Scholarly Work

Books

Kassin, S. M. (2006). Psychology in Modules. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Kassin, S. M., & Briggs, K. (Eds.) (2005). Readings from the American Psychological Society: Current Directions in Psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Brehm, S. S., Kassin, S. M., & Fein, S. (2005). Social psychology (6th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (previous editions 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002)

Kassin, S.M. (2004). Psychology (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. (previous editions 1995, 1998, 2001)

Kassin, S.M. (2004). Essentials of Psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Fein, S., & Kassin, S.M. (Eds.) (2002). Readings in social psychology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Wrightsman, L.S., & Kassin, S.M. (1993). Confessions in the courtroom. Newbury Park: Sage.

Kassin, S. M., & Wrightsman, L. S. (1988). The American jury on trial: Psychological perspectives. Washington, DC: Hemisphere.

Wrightsman, L. S., Kassin, S. M., & Willis, C. (Eds.) (1987). In the jury box: Controversies in the courtroom. Newbury Park: Sage Publications.

Wrightsman, L. S., Willis, C. & Kassin, S. M., (Eds.) (1987). On the witness stand: Controversies in the courtroom. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Kassin, S. M., & Wrightsman, L. S. (Eds.) (1985). The psychology of evidence and trial procedure. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Brehm, S. S., Kassin, S. M., & Gibbons, F. X. (Eds.) (1981). Developmental social psychology: 4

Theory and research. New York: Oxford University Press.


Book Chapters

Kassin, S.M. (in press). Forensic psychology. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Kassin, S. M. (in press). Expert testimony on the psychology of confessions: A pyramidal model of the relevant science. In E. Borgida & S. T. Fiske (Eds.), Psychological Science in Court: Beyond Common Knowledge. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishing.

Kassin, S. M. (in press). Internalized false confessions. In M. Toglia, R. Lindsay, D. Ross, & J. Read (Eds.), Handbook of eyewitness psychology: Volume 1, Memory for Events. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Kassin, S. M. (2006). Judging eyewitnesses, confessions, informants, and alibis: What is wrong with juries, and can they do better? In A. Heaton-Armstrong, E. Shepherd, G. Gudjonsson, & D. Wolchover, (Eds.), Witness Testimony: Psychological, Investigative and Evidential Perspectives (pp. 639-673). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kassin, S. M. (2006). A critical appraisal of modern police interrogations. In T. Williamson

(Ed.), Investigative interviewing: Rights, research, regulation (pp. 207-228). Devon,

UK: Willan Publishing.

Kassin, S. M. (2005). What’s your prediction? Introducing psychology via common sense. Chapter to appear in B. Perlman, L.. McCann, & W. Buskist (Eds.), Voices of NITOP: Favorite talks from the National Institute On The Teaching of Psychology.

Kassin, S. M. (2004). True or false: "I’d know a false confession if I saw one." In P. Granhag & L. Strömwall (Eds.), Deception detection in forensic contexts (pp. 172-194). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Meissner, C. A., & Kassin, S. M. (2004). You’re Guilty, So Just Confess!" Cognitive and

Behavioral Confirmation Biases in the Interrogation Room. In G. D. Lassiter (Ed.), Interrogations, confessions, and entrapment (pp. 85-106). New York: Kluwer Academic.

Kassin, S. M. (2001). Confessions: Psychological and forensic aspects. In N. J. Smelser & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Kassin, S. M. (2000). Psychology, Social Psychology. In Microsoft Encyclopedia Encarta 2000.

Kassin, S. M., & Studebaker, C. A. (1998). Instructions to disregard and the jury: Curative and paradoxical effects. In J. Golding & C. MacLeod (Eds.), Intentional Forgetting: 5

Interdisciplinary Approaches (pp. 413-434). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Kassin, S. M., & Pryor, J. B. (1985). The development of attribution processes. In J. Pryor & J. Day (Eds.), The development of social cognition. NY: Springer-Verlag.

Kassin, S. M., & Wrightsman, L. S. (1985). Confession evidence. In S. Kassin & L. Wrightsman (Eds.), The psychology of evidence and trial procedure. Beverly Hills: Sage Books.

Kassin, S. M., & Baron, R. M. (1985). Basic determinants of attribution and social perception. In J. Harvey & G. Weary (Eds.), Current perspectives on attribution theory and research. NY: Academic Press.

Kassin, S. M., & Lepper, M. R. (1984). Oversufficient and insufficient justification effects: Cognitive and behavioral development. In J. Nicholls (Ed.), The development of achievement motivation. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Kassin, S. M. (1981). From laychild to "layman": Developmental causal attribution. In S. Brehm,

S. Kassin, & F. Gibbons (Eds.), Developmental social psychology: Theory and research. New York: Oxford University Press.

Book Reviews

Kassin, S.M. (2005). True witness: Cops, courts, science, and the struggle against misidentification, by James M. Doyle. American Psychology Law Society News, 25, No. 1, 3-5, 19.

Kassin, S.M. (1998). Clinical psychology in court: House of junk science? Contemporary Psychology, 43, 321-324.

Kassin, S.M. (1991). Interpersonal perception: Lessons in the art and science of experimental social psychology. Contemporary Psychology, 36, 1035-1037.

Kassin, S. M. (1989). Inside the jury. Criminal Justice Review, 14, 103-104.

Kassin, S. M. (1981). Four differing social psychology texts. Contemporary Psychology, 26, 454-455.

Articles

Kassin, S. M., Leo, R. A., Meissner, C. A., Richman, K. D., Colwell, L. H., Leach, A-M., &

LaFon, D. (in press). Police interviewing and interrogation: A Self-report survey of police practices and beliefs, Law and Human Behavior.

Russano, M. B., Meissner, C. A., Narchet, F. M., & Kassin, S. M. (2005). Investigating true 6 and false confessions within a novel experimental paradigm. Psychological Science, 16, 481-486.

Kassin, S. M. (2005). On the psychology of confessions: Does innocence put innocents at risk? American Psychologist, 60, 215-228.

Kassin, S. M., Meissner, C. A., & Norwick, R. J. (2005). "I’d know a false confession if I saw one": A comparative study of college students and police investigators. Law and Human Behavior, 29, 211-227.

Kassin, S. M., & Gudjonsson, G. H. (2005). True crimes, false confessions: Why do innocent people confess to crimes they did not commit? Scientific American Mind, June issue, 24-31.

Kassin, S. M., & Gudjonsson, G. H. (2004). The psychology of confession evidence: A review of the literature and issues. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5, 35-69.

Kassin, S. (2004). Videotape police interrogations. The Boston Globe, OP-ED, April 26, 2004,
p. A-13.

Kassin, S. M., & Norwick, R. J. (2004). Why people waive their Miranda rights: The power of innocence. Law and Human Behavior, 28, 211-221.

Kassin, S. M., Goldstein, C. C., & Savitsky, K. (2003). Behavioral confirmation in the interrogation room: On the dangers of presuming guilt. Law and Human Behavior, 27, 187-203.

Kassin, S. (2002). False confessions and the jogger case. The New York Times OP-ED, Friday, November 1, 2002, p. A31.

Meissner, C.A., & Kassin, S.M. (2002). "He’s guilty!": Investigator bias in judgments of truth and deception. Law and Human Behavior. 26, 469-480.

Kassin, S.M., Tubb, V.A., Hosch, H.M., & Memon, A. (2002). Eyewitness researchers as experts in court: Responsive to change in a dynamic and rational process. American Psychologist, 57, 378-379.

Kassin, S.M. (2002). Human judges of truth, deception, and credibility: Confident but erroneous. Cardozo Law Review, 23, 809-817.

Kassin, S.M., Tubb, V.A., Hosch, H.M., & Memon, A. (2001). On the "general acceptance" of eyewitness testimony research: A new survey of experts. American Psychologist, 56, 405-416.

Sommers, S. R., & Kassin, S. M. (2001). On the many impacts of inadmissible testimony: 7

Selective compliance, need for cognition, and the overcorrection bias. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 1368-1377.

Vidmar, N., Lempert, R., Diamond, S., Hans, V., Landsman, S., MacCoun, R., Sanders, J., Hosch, H. Kassin, S., Galanter, M., Eisenberg, T., Daniels, S., Greene, E., Martin, J., Penrod, S., Richardson, J., Heuer, L., & Horowitz, I. (2000). Amicus brief: Kumho Tire v. Carmichael. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 387-400.

Kassin, S.M., & Fong, C. T. (1999). "I'm Innocent!": Effects of training on judgments of truth and deception in the interrogation Room. Law and Human Behavior, 23, 499-516.

Kassin, S.M. (1998). Eyewitness identification procedures: The fifth rule. Law and Human Behavior, 22, 649-653.

Kassin, S.M. (1998). More on the psychology of false confessions. American Psychologist, 53, 320-321.

Kassin, S.M. (1997). The psychology of confession evidence. American Psychologist, 52, 221-233.

Kassin, S.M. (1997). False memories turned against the self. Psychological Inquiry, 8, 300-302.

Kassin, S.M., & Sukel, H. (1997). Coerced confessions and the jury: An experimental test of the "harmless error" rule. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 27-46.

Kassin, S.M., & Sommers, S.R. (1997). Inadmissible testimony, instructions to disregard, and the jury: Substantive versus procedural considerations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1046-1054.

Kassin, S.M., & Neumann, K. (1997). On the power of confession evidence: An experimental test of the "fundamental difference" hypothesis. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 469-484.

Kassin, S.M., & Dunn, M. (1997). Computer-animated displays and the jury: Facilitative and prejudicial effects. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 269-281.

Kassin, S.M., & Kiechel, K.L. (1996). The social psychology of false confessions: Compliance, internalization, and confabulation. Psychological Science, 7, 125-128.

Regan, P.C., Snyder, M., & Kassin, S.M. (1995). Unrealistic optimism: Self-enhancement or person positivity? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 1073-1082.

Kassin, S.M., Ellsworth, P.C., & Smith, V.L. (1994). Deja vu all over again: Elliott's critique of eyewitness experts. Law and Human Behavior, 18, 203-210.

Smith, V.L., & Kassin, S.M. (1993). Effects of the dynamite charge on the deliberations of 8

deadlocked mock juries. Law and Human Behavior, 17, 625-644.

Kassin, S.M., & Barndollar, K.A. (1992). On the psychology of eyewitness testimony: A comparison of experts and prospective jurors. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 22, 1241-1249.

Kassin, S. M., Rigby, S., & Castillo, S. R. (1991). The accuracy-confidence correlation in eyewitness testimony: Limits and extensions of the retrospective self-awareness effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 698-707.

Kassin, S. M., & Garfield, D. A. (1991). Blood and guts: General and trial-specific effec

Research Summary

Honors, Awards, and Grants

Macarthur Foundation, Juvenile Justice Network grant to study biases in judgments of juvenile and
minority suspects in pre-interrogation interviews (2003-2006)

Marquis Who's Who in America (1999-present); Who’s Who in the World (2000-present)

NIH Research Fellowship, Stanford University, 1985-86

U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Fellowship Award, 1984-85

Foundation for Child Development, Research Grant, 1984-85

NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Kansas, 1978-79

University of Connecticut Research Foundation Grant, 1977-78

Phi Beta Kappa, 1975