Product Description: This brief, paperback version offers all of the strengths and popular features of Kassins's Psychology, 4/e; it allows readers to understand the research that is crucial to understanding psychology. Readers actively discover and experience the methods and findings of psychological research, learning in the process how to think like psychologists! Detailed accounts of classic or recent studies begin each chapter, asking the reader to take on the role of subject, experimenter, or observer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This in-depth book introduces the five major areas of psychology (biological, cognitive, developmental, social, and clinical) and weaves them into the five major areas of application (health, education, business, environment, and law).Draws examples from entertainment, sports, literature, medicine, law, politics, and current events. Integrates basic and applied psychology with boxes entitled Intersections combining the five areas of psychology with the five areas of application. Concludes with a chapter that unites all areas under a unified discussion of health and well-being presenting the latest research on the self, stress and coping, and the links between psychology and the immune system. The second edition of Psychology has been revised to include an essay entitled, The Big Picture previewing each section. There is also a new chapter on Motivation and a new chapter on Cultural Influences as well as increased coverage of I/O Psychology.

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Product Description: The causes of confessions, the acceptability of confessions extracted under duress and the interrogation procedures used by police are among the topics explored in this volume. The authors examine how the North American legal system has evolved in its treatment of confessions over the past 50 years, evaluate the process for determining the admissability of confession testimony and provide research findings on jurors' reactions to voluntary and coerced confessions...read more

Product Description: First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Trial evidence can only be introduced through exhibits or the testimony of witnesses, and psychologists and other social scientists have now begun to empirically evaluate questions such as: What is the impact of the testimony of eyewitnesses in the court decisions? Should hypnosis be used with crime witnesses? Is the polygraph an accurate device to determine the guilt or innocence of a suspect? This book contains articles reprinted from psychological journals relevant to the above questions...read more

Product Description: Psychologists and social scientists have recently undertaken systematic studies of the processes involved in the jurors' role in the courtroom. In the Jury Box is a collection of articles from the accumulating professional literature reflecting research into challenging issues such as: Does jury selection `work'? Are jurors able to make unbiased judgements? Should complex cases be determined by an experienced judge rather than inexperienced laypersons? There are four sections, each on a different aspect of the jury process, and each containing an introduction and summary written by the volume editors to place it in an appropriate context and provide conclusions...read more

Product Description: Kassin and Wrightsman's book concentrates on the single most important determinant of verdicts -- the evidence and court procedure. It is divided into four parts: (1) an overview and historical perspective; (2) seven substantive topics like eyewitness accounts, confessions, and character evidence; (3) an examination of the major stages of trial procedure; and (4) a provocative discussion of the role that psychology does, and should, play in the judicial process...read more