Dangerous decisions: A theoretical framework for understanding how judges assess credibility in the courtroom

By S. Porter, Leanne ten Brinke. 2009

131 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Law, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/7d26011a015045b7abc1af30a75347fc63455132

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Leanne ten Brinke
2. S. Porter
3. Chantal Gustaw

In Law

1. S. Porter
2. Leanne ten Brinke

In Social Psychology

1. Leanne ten Brinke
2. S. Porter
3. Chantal Gustaw

Citations in the corpus

• Dangerous decisions: the impact of first impressions of trustworthiness on the evaluation of legal evidence and defendant culpability (2010, background): “) would outperform laypersons, they too typically perform around the level of chance, or even below chance, in judging the credibility of speakers (Ekman & O'Sullivan, 1991 ; Porter, Woodworth, & Birt, 2000 ; see Porter & ten Brinke, 2009 ; Vrij, 2008 ).”
• The truth about lies: What works in detecting high‐stakes deception? (2010, background): “Dangerous decisions theory (DDT; Porter & ten Brinke, 2009) describes the 'path' of psychological processes leading to mistaken evaluations of honesty and ultimately leading to wrongful judicial outcomes.”