Selected Topics in Experimental Psychology and Law PSYC 376 (3)

The roles of experimental developmental, cognitive, and social psychology in the understanding of behaviour and perceptions of individuals in legal contexts. Topics may include eyewitness testimony, children and the law, interviewing, deception detection, wrongful convictions, interrogations and false confessions, and forensic science. Course can be repeated for credit when taught under a different topic. Prerequisite: PSYC 201W and PSYC 268. Recommended: PSYC 210.