John Jay College Of Criminal Justice | The City University of New York

Director of Experimental Training: Professor Angela Crossman
Degree Requirements:
60 credits of coursework
Dissertation
(Graduates are not eligible to become licensed as psychologists)

The Experimental Psychology Training Program (Experimental Forensic Psychology Track) emphasizes research training as well as training in applied work such as evaluation research and policy development. It will prepare students as academicians and applied researchers and to provide professional psychological expertise to and within the criminal and civil justice stems. This track prepares students to develop and conduct independent basic science research in the field of forensic psychology. The experimental track includes social, cognitive, developmental, policy and decision sciences orientations. Scholarly activity in this track addresses issues such as jury decision-making in criminal and civil cases (e.g., pretrial publicity); the impact of expert testimony; the ability of jurors to understand and use scientific and probabilistic evidence; the impact of new forms of evidence such as graphics and reconstructions; the plausibility of psychological assumptions built into legal rules of evidence and procedure; jury comprehension and the use of legal instructions; the impact of juror characteristics on decision-making; group processes in juries; jury selection by attorneys and social scientists; the accuracy of child and adult eyewitness identification and crime reports; witness memory; investigatory procedures on witness memory; and the assessment of the utility and biases inherent in alternative police procedures such as show-up, photoarrays, and lineups, police psychology, attributions of blame in sexual assault; and the psychology of confessions, false confessions and alibis.

To view the model curriculum in Experimental Forensic Psychology, click here.

To view the Experimental Psychology Training Program Student Handbook, click here.

To view the Experimental Course Checklist, click here.

To view the Chart of Applicant Admissions (Experimental Track) as a function of GRE and GPA, click here.

For a list of faculty who teach in our Experimental Forensic Psychology track, click here.