Videos

Below is a listing of presentations videotaped at Cornell that are relevant to this course.

Introduction

Charles Brainerd: Law, Psychology and Human Development

Charles Brainerd: The Science of False Memory

Unit 8: False Memory Theories

Charles Brainerd: How Does Negative Emotion Cause False Memories?

Unit 11: Criminal Investigations: Adults

Phoebe Ellsworth: Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigations

Kim Kopko: The Science of Law and Memory

Gary Wells: Mistaken Eyewitness Identification and False Confidence: The Creation of Distorted Retrospective Judgment

Unit 12: Criminal Investigations: Children

Stephen J. Ceci: Children and the Law, a presentation sponsored by the Pre-Law Undergraduate Society and Psi Chi International Honor Society in Psychology, November 2009.

Stephen Ceci: Five Factors that Can Damage Childrens Memory

Unit 13: Psychotherapy and False Memory

Phoebe Ellsworth: Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigations (also in Unit 11)

Other videos of interest:

• Valerie Hans interviews Charles Brainerd: reliability issues with memory and the law
• Valerie Hans interviews Tom Tyler: crime deterrence and legitimacy
• Charles Brainerd: Anti-social Personality Disorder, Psychopathy, Future Dangerousness: Part 1, and Part 2.
• Human Development Outreach and Multimedia: this site has many video presentations from Cornell faculty and visiting experts on issues related to this course. Many of the videos listed above are hosted on that site, but you can also search the outreach site for recently added videos and others outside the scope of this course.

Death Penalty videos of interest:

• Joseph Armine: Mitigation Past, Present and Future
• John Blume: Trauma: The Case of Richard Johnson
• John Blume: Protected Classes: Mental Retardation
• John Blume: Significant Empirical Findings
• Charles Brainerd: Protected Classes
• Charles Brainerd: Protected Classes: Adolescents and Youth
• Sherri Johnson: Preparing a Mitigation Case
• Mark Olive: Atkins, Simmons, Kennedy and Beyond