Alma Patricia Olaguez

California State University, Los Angeles | CSULA · Department of Psychology

Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of introducing gang evidence on jurors’ memory of the evidence and decision-making. In Experiment 1, 234 participants viewed a staged trial. The evidence against the defendant was weak and consisted of a single tentative eyewitness identification. Half of the participants viewed a version of the...

In this book, eminent scholars from varied disciplines detail how developmental science and the law shape one another across the lifespan. The chapters address fundamental questions about how human development influences laws and practices in the legal system and how the law and its practices influence development. The chapters also reveal how the...

While there is a growing body of research examining the relatively “cold”, cognitive decision-making components of showups, few attempts have been made to capture the “hot” affective components of showups that are thought to exacerbate the suggestiveness of the procedure. In three simulated-field experiments, we partnered with law enforcement to ex...