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Research

A review of psycho-legal issues in credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion

Hedayat Selim, Julia Korkman, Peter Nynäs, Elina Pirjatanniemi & Jan Antfolk Read the article in full on ResearchGate.

7 April 2024

Psychological assumptions underlying credibility assessments in Finnish asylum determinations

Jenny Skrifvars, Veronica Sui, Jan Antfolk, Tanja van Veldhuizen & Julia Korkman Read the article in full on ResearchGate.

Factors related to rape victims’ decision to file police reports

Isabella Arponen, Julia Korkman, Jan Antfolk & Riina Korjamo Read the article in full on ResearchGate.

Preprint: Developing and Evaluating a Training Programme in Legal Psychology for Finnish Asylum Officials

Jenny Skrifvars, Jan Antfolk, & Julia Korkman Read the preprint in full on ResearchGate.

Preprint: White Paper on Forensic Child Interviewing: Research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law

Korkman, J., Otgaar, H., Geven, L.M., Bull, R., Cyr, M., Hershkowitz, I., Mäkelä, J-M., Mattison, M., Milne, R., Santtila, P., van Koppen, P., Memon, A., Danby, M., Filipović, L., Garcia, F.J., Gewehr, E., Gomes Bell, O., Järvilehto, L., Kask, K., Körner, A., Lacey, E., Lavoie, J., Magnusson, M., Miller, Q.C., Pakkanen, T., Peixoto, C.E., Perez,… Read more »

The masked villain: the effects of facial masking, distance, lighting, and eyewitness age on eyewitness identification accuracy

The study investigates if distance, lighting, and facial masking negatively impact eyewitness identification accuracy. Thomas J. Nyman, Julia Korkman, James Michael Lampinen, Jan Antfolk & Pekka Santtila Read the article here.

15 September 2023

How old was she? The accuracy of assessing the age of adolescents based on photos (preprint)

The study investigates the effects of gender, age, and ethnicity of both targets and observes on the accuracy of age estimation. Furthermore, the effects of targets’ facial expressions (neutral or smiling), use of makeup and photo quality are investigated.

1 March 2021

Psychological assumptions underlying credibility assessments in Finnish asylum determinations (preprint)

The study investigates assumptions underlying credibility assessments in Finnish first-instance asylum procedures and how these assumptions fit with widely accepted psychological science.

Low recidivism rates of child sex offenders in a Finnish 7-year follow-up

This study examines the recidivism rates of Finnish child sex offender convicted in 2010 (n = 361) over a follow-up period of seven years. The results indicate that while reoffending for other types of offences was common (34 %), offenders had very low sexual crime recidivism rates.

23 January 2020

Eyewitness identification in virtual reality or 2D

The article examines if eyewitness accuracy is affected by the method (VR/2D-video) in which threating and non-threatening scenes are shown in laboratory-based research.