Kom bij ons werken als onderzoeksassistent! Nog 5 dagen om te solliciteren (t/m 5 oktober).

Come work with me! I need a part-time research assistant to help me with research articles, presentations, expert witness reports and social media. I need someone with a background in legal psychology, fluent English and Dutch and a healthy dose of enthusiasm :)

🚨 Vacature alert! Ben jij op zoek naar een leerzame bijbaan binnen de rechtspsychologie? Solliciteer dan nu op de #vacature Onderzoeksassistent Rechtspsychologie voor 6 oktober! @anneliesvrede.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/on...

On the first day of the #EAPL2025 conference in Vilnius, @anneliesvrede.bsky.social presents the recently developed ALLP training on cross-cultural communication for interviewers @vucriminologie.bsky.social

Excited to share that I've been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant for research on expert witness reports in legal psychology, allowing the fantastic @evanrosmalen.bsky.social to start her PhD @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social! allp.nl/nwo-grant-fo...

🚨 Just published! Our case study on the ICTR reveals how cultural background shapes courtroom communication. Witnesses from non-WEIRD contexts often gave indirect responses, easily misinterpreted as unclear or evasive by legal professionals @anneliesvrede.bsky.social doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

New article alert! 🚨 Our field study on South African eyewitness reports shows six main cultural differences, regarding detailedness, confidence, assertiveness and more. Published open-access! @anneliesvrede.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

About to start our #SARMAC2025 symposium on eyewitness memory in cross-cultural contexts in the Fountain Suite with @anneliesvrede.bsky.social @gabidb.bsky.social Nkansah Aankwam @lorrainehope.bsky.social and Qi Wang @officialsarmac.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social

How do people from different cultures remember and report what they have witnessed? @gabidb.bsky.social explored this question in her PhD research with a cleverly designed cross-cultural experiment. #eyewitness #memory @amslablegpsy.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social allp.nl/the-way-we-r...

(1/8) 🔍 New research on cultural differences in eyewitness memory By De Bruïne, Vredeveldt & Van Koppen (2025) We compared how sub-Saharan African and Western European participants recalled the same mock crime video. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0965...

The emeritus Professor in Legal Psychology and the newly minted Professor in Legal Psychology :) @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @anneliesvrede.bsky.social

Our research on collaborative interviewing is now also featured on the VU website! @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social vu.nl/en/news/2025...

Great to see our field study on the Collaborative Eyewitness Interview featured in Applied Police Briefings!

Great to see this important work led by @evanrosmalen.bsky.social @amslablegpsy.bsky.social featured in Applied Police Briefings!

Want to know what it's like being interviewed as a witness? Participate in this study on witness interviewing in Amsterdam! @nscr-instituut.bsky.social #PsychLaw

Historic moment! Previous Prof Peter van Koppen and newly appointed Prof @anneliesvrede.bsky.social talk together about the history and future of legal psychology at the VU @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social #PsychLaw

Ben jij gepassioneerd over criminologie en heb jij de ambitie om wetenschappelijk onderwijs te geven? Solliciteer dan nu bij @vuamsterdam.bsky.social naar de vacature van Docent Criminologie! @vucriminologie.bsky.social #JobAlert werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/do...

Our director @anneliesvrede.bsky.social has been appointed Full Professor in Legal Psychology @vuamsterdam.bsky.social! Please save the date for her inaugural lecture on the 13th of November 2025. allp.nl/annelies-vre...

This month's Lies & Allies lineup on March 4th, 4-5pm UK time: emotions in false allegations, the nature of honesty (@charactergap.bsky.social), and predicting suspicion in emergency service calls. To join us, email [email protected]

A list of top researchers in criminal psychology, criminology, police investigations, forensic psychiatry & other crime-related areas. go.bsky.app/EH9dNn6

Again we want to promote the online talk by Prof. Richard J. McNally! Just two days to wait. It‘s on Thursday, Feb 27 at 3 pm CET (2 pm UK time)x the Talk is on 'Trauma, Memory, and the Law'. Please save the date for this not-to-be-missed event! Please retweet.

Have you ever witnessed a crime while under influence of #cannabis? Your experience could help advance #research on psychological processes in crime-related contexts! Sign up for this online study here: lnkd.in/ehZ_JuBB

How could AI be used to assess eyewitness identification accuracy? Andrew Smith, @nydia-ayala.bsky.social and @rying.bsky.social discuss three ways AI could prove useful! @officialsarmac.bsky.social #PsychLaw psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Call for papers!! FIRST BILINGUAL SPECIAL ISSUE OF INVESTIGATIVE INTERVIEWING: RESEARCH & PRACTICE!! Submission deadline: 31st May 2025 iiirg.org/resources/ii...

🚨 Hot off the press 🚨 Conducting First Conversations in Cases of Suspected Child Sexual Abuse in Schools iiirg.org/resources/ii...

If you know an early career researcher (<10yrs PhD) who has made outstanding contributions to applied memory or cognition, please consider nominating them for the SARMAC J. Don Read Early Career Award! Deadline for nominations: 31st March. See website for eligibility and process #cogsci

@oxfordcrim.bsky.social is hiring. We are looking for a 3-year Departmental Lecturer in Criminology (to replace me while on leave). Friendly colleagues, wonderful students, supportive environment. Open to all areas of the field. Closing date midday Monday 10th March www.law.ox.ac.uk/departmental...

Looks like this will be a great conference! Together with Adina Nistor, Laura Weiss, @nan-knust.bsky.social and Michael Riegler we submitted a panel on "Cultural considerations from criminal investigation to courtroom". Hope to see many people there! #culture #crime

Abstract submission for the International Conference on Culture, Crime, and Global Challenges is now open! The conference will take place at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social on April 16-17. Submit your abstract now! Deadline: March 1st www.uu.nl/en/events/in...

Happy to share that I will be Full Professor @amslablegpsy.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social from the 1st of March! Honoured to become the first female professor in legal psychology in The Netherlands, ever. And so grateful to the many people who helped me get here ❤️

NEW PAPER ALERT! Post Doctoral researcher Jenny Skrifvars, with Jan Antfolk & @juliakorkman.bsky.social, in collaboration with @migri.fi created and evaluated a training programme for asylum officials in legal psychology. Read full article here - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nieuwe vacature: @vucriminologie.bsky.social zoekt een enthousiaste kandidaat die onderzoek wil doen naar de besluitvorming van forensische professionals bij het gebruik van innovatieve tools. Solliciteer nu! werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/pr...

We are so proud to announce an online talk by Prof. Richard J. McNally, on Thursday, Feb 27 at 9am (ET). Speaking on 'Trauma, Memory, and the Law' , please save the date for this not-to-be-missed event!

Reducing the disproportionate policing of Black children policinginsight.com/feature/opin...

📣 new paper out in #JARMAC! We found that witnesses who experienced inattentional blindness for a crime were only less accurate and confident when asked cued recall questions. When asked a free recall question, they were just as acc and conf as noticers. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

What better way to start the new year than with a *NEW* issue of Applied Police Briefings?! 🥳 That's right! #APB Winter 2025 is now available at appliedpolicebriefings.com/index.php/APB I'll showcase one article each day - check back tomorrow! 🎶: shorturl.at/Md78Z

Yes!! We can register for #SARMAC2025 in Ireland! Really excited about this conference - we have a hackathon, expert witness workshop, tons of interesting symposia, presentations and posters, and of course plenty of fun social events! See you there!

"Often, what goes hand in hand with innovation, is inequity". Thought-provoking considerations on #technology, #justice and #racism by @ruha9.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW7N...

Carleton University is looking for a new Assistant Professor in Forensic Psychology! #PsychLaw carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

The official journal account for the international Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG) is here!!! #Criminology #Psychology #Policing #lawenforcement iiirg.org/resources/ii...

Don't forget that the abstract deadline for SARMAC 2025 is this Sunday! #sarmac2025 #academicsky #cognition #memory

Friendly reminder as our 12/1 deadline approaches!

Little reminder, 10 days left to apply 😊

We asked our incoming President @anneliesvrede.bsky.social what she loves about SARMAC: "For me, the best thing about SARMAC has always been how welcoming senior academics are towards more junior researchers, creating that feeling of an extended academic family. I hope to continue that spirit."

Can eyewitnesses help each other remember? Together with @anneliesvrede.bsky.social, I conducted a field study revealing that collaborative #witness interviews can uncover new and highly relevant details. Proud to see this work published after 5 years of dedication! #LegalPsy doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

@megternes.bsky.social We are thrilled to share that Joseph Eastwood, Christopher Lively, Kirk Luther, & Madison Hynes will deliver symposium: "Suspect Interviewing: Charter Rights, Coercion and Confession Evidence" at Canadian Forensic Psychology Virtual Conference 2025. Call for abstracts here.

We are still in the black place (Twitter/X), but we are now also over here in the blue place! For practitioners, academics, and anyone else interested in research on deception broadly speaking, give us a follow and repost!

Trying to foster connections between emerging, early career, and senior policing scholars! Open to all fields — please share and let me know if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/GwDMiAc

Psychology and Law by @tessneal.bsky.social