Introduction; References; Larry Wrightsman: A Pioneer in Injecting Social-Psychological Knowledge Into the Legal System; References; Psychological Science on Eyewitness Identification and the U.S. Supreme Court: Reconsiderations in Light of DNA-Exonerations and the Science of Eyewitness Identification; Manson Permits the Routine Admission of Flawed Identification Evidence; Manson Fails to Weed Out Unreliable Identifications; The First Prong of Manson: Was the Procedure Suggestive?; The Second Prong of Manson: The Reliability Criteria.

Issues in the Application of the Manson Factors Eyewitness Testimony Is Persuasive to Jurors; Manson Fails to Administer Justice; The Pleading Effect; Manson Acts as an Incentive: Not as a Deterrent-For Police Use of Suggestion; What Is the Solution?; References; The Credibility of Witnesses; Witness Preparation and the Growth of a Profession; Witness Credibility: The Concept and the Scale; The Assessment of Credibility; Women Experts and Personally Intrusive Questions; Scientific Expertise; Neuroscience Experts on the Stand; Impressions of Neuroscience.

Impact of Neuroscience on Juror Decision-Making Cautionary Notes; Conclusion; References; False Confessions: From Colonial Salem, Through Central Park, and into the Twenty-First Century; Historical Overview; Miranda: The Right to Remain Silent; Social Psychology of Police Interrogations; Developments in Great Britain; The Innocence Project's DNA Exoneration Cases; The Current Study of False Confessions; Why Are Innocent People Interrogated?; Why Do Innocent People Confess?; Personal Risk Factors; Situational Risk Factors; Does Innocence Put Innocents at Risk?

How Do Juries Perceive Confessions? What Consequences Follow from Confession?; Proposed Reforms to Policy and Practice; Closing Thought; References; Identifying Juror Bias: Moving from Assessment and Prediction to a New Generation of Jury Selection Research; Psychological Assumptions Underlying Jury Selection; Predicting Juror Verdicts; Measures of General Juror Bias; Using Case-Specific Attitudes to Predict Juror Bias; Moving Beyond the Assessment of Juror Bias: A New Generation of Jury Selection Research; Juror Rehabilitation as a Moderator of Juror Bias.

Biased Hypothesis-Testing and Voir Dire Behavioral Confirmation and Voir Dire; Conclusion; References; Race and Its Place in the United States Legal System; Early Colonial Experience; Slavery; Colorism; Psychological Meaning; Racial Profiling; Biased Legal Decision Making; Sentencing; Elimination; Conclusions; References; Law and Social Science: How Interdisciplinary Is Interdisciplinary Enough?; Interdisciplinary Training and Research; Concepts in Search of a Definition; Benefits and Challenges of Interdisciplinarity; The Case of Law and Social Science in header (LSS).