Saul Kassin
Department of Psychology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
445 West 59 Street
New York, New York 10019
U.S.A.
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Saul Kassin is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in New York City. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut after which he spent most of his career at Williams College. At various times, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Kansas; a U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Fellow, working at the Federal Judicial Center; and a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor in the Psychology and Law Program at Stanford University.
Dr. Kassin is author of the textbook Psychology in Modules (2008), published by Pearson Custom Publishing. With Steven Fein and Hazel Markus, he is also co-author of Social Psychology (7th edition), published by Houghton Mifflin. He has contributed both the Psychology & Social Psychology entries for Microsoft's online Encyclopedia, Encarta 2000. He has also co-authored or edited a number of scholarly books, including: Confessions in the Courtroom, The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure, The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives, and Developmental Social Psychology.
Several years ago, Kassin pioneered the scientific study of police interviewing, interrogations, and confessions, and introduced a taxonomy to distinguish among types of false confessions. He has also studied the psychology of eyewitness testimony as well as the impact of these and other types of evidence on jury decision-making.
Dr. Kassin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and Association for Psychological Science (APS) and is President-Elect of APA Division 41 (Psychology and the Law). He lectures frequently to judges and magistrates, lawyers, psychologists, forensic psychiatrists, and various law enforcement groups. He has worked as an analyst for various news media and as a consultant and expert witness in federal, military, and state courts.
 Books:
 Kassin, S. (2008). Psychology in modules. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing.
- Kassin, S., Fein, S., & Markus, H.R. (2008). Social psychology (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
Journal Articles:
- Kassin, S. (2005). On the psychology of confessions: Does innocence put innocents at risk? American Psychologist, 60, 215-228.
- Kassin, S. (1997). The psychology of confession evidence. American Psychologist, 52, 221-233.
- Kassin, S., Goldstein, 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., & Gudjonsson, G. (2005). True crimes, false confessions: Why do innocent people confess to crimes they did not commit? Scientific American Mind, May, 24-31.
- Kassin, S., & Gudjonsson, G. (2004). The psychology of confession evidence: A review of the literature and issues. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5, Whole No. 2.
- Kassin, S., & Kiechel, K. (1996). The social psychology of false confessions: Compliance, internalization, and confabulation. Psychological Science, 7, 125-128.
- Kassin, S., Leo, R., Meissner, C., Richman, K., Colwell, L., Leach, A-M., & LaFon, D. (2007). Police interviewing and interrogation: A Self-report survey of police practices and beliefs. Law and Human Behavior, 31, 381-400.
- Kassin, S., Meissner, C., & Norwick, R. (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., & Norwick, R. (2004). Why people waive their Miranda rights: The power of innocence. Law and Human Behavior, 28, 211-221.
- Kassin, S., & Sommers, S. (1997). Inadmissible testimony, instructions to disregard, and the jury: Substantive versus procedural considerations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1046-1054.
- Kassin, S., Tubb, V., Hosch, H., & Memon, A. (2001). On the "general acceptance" of eyewitness testimony research: A new survey of the experts. American Psychologist, 56, 405-416.
- Russano, M., Meissner, C., Narchet, F., & Kassin, S. (2005). Investigating true and false confessions in a novel experimental paradigm. Psychological Science, 16, 481-486.
Other Publications:
- Kassin, S. (2002, November 1). False confessions and the jogger case. New York Times. [Op-Ed]
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