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Festschrift Celebration for Larry Wrightsman |
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| Posted by: | Monica Biernat |
| Title/Position: | Professor |
| School/Organization: | University of Kansas |
| Sent to listserv of: | SPSP, SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | July 3rd, 2008 |
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Perspectives on Psychology and the Law:
Celebrating the Contributions of Lawrence S. Wrightsman, Jr.
October 17-18, 2008, University of Kansas campus, Lawrence, KS
The University of Kansas Department of Psychology is pleased to announce a festschrift in honor of Lawrence (Larry) Wrightsman, who retired last year. Dr. Wrightsman’s contributions to the field of psychology and law are legendary, and include his popular textbook Psychology and the Legal System, as well as 46 other authored, edited, or co-edited books and some 75 articles and chapters over a 48-year career. The conference is being sponsored by the American Psychological Association, the American Psychology-Law Society, and the KU Department of Psychology, and is open to interested faculty, students, practitioners, and the general public.
Speakers include:
Jack Brigham, Pioneer in Injecting Social Psychological Knowledge Into the Legal System
Edie Greene, Recognized Excellent: Wrightsman’s Seminal Role in Undergraduate Education in Psychology and Law
Richard Wiener, Social Analytic Jurisprudence: Using Psychological Science to Test Legal Assumptions
Ronald Roesch, Larry Wrightsman’s Perspectives on the United States Supreme Court
Stanley Brodsky, Research and Applications on Witness Credibility and Effectiveness
Sol Fulero, Expert Testimony on False Confessions, Eyewitness Reliability and Eyewitness Evidence Collection: Tales from the Front
Gary Wells, Eyewitness Identification Evidence: Science and Reform
Saul Kassin, False Confessions: From Colonial Salem, Through Central Park, and into the 21st Century
Kay Deaux, Have We Successfully Gendered the Law? From Price/Waterhouse to the Present
Margaret Bull Kovera, Identifying Juror Bias: Moving from Assessment and Prediction to a New Generation of Jury Selection Research
Brian Bornstein, Empirical Findings on Religion and Judging, with an Aside on the Value of Multidisciplinary Scholarship
For more information, please visit the conference web site at:
http://www.psych.ku.edu/larry/
There is no enrollment fee, but we ask that you indicate your intent to attend by clicking on “registration” at the website.
Organizers: Monica Biernat (biernat@ku.edu), Christian S. Crandall (crandall@ku.edu), Omri Gillath (ogillath@ku.edu), and Patricia Hawley (phawley@ku.edu)
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