Publications

Note: Red names denote TU student co-authors.

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS


Kukucka, J., & Famulegun, O. (in press). “Not scientific” to whom? Laypeople misjudge manner of death determinations as scientific and definitive. Wrongful Conviction Law Review.


Almazrouei, M. A., Kukucka, J., Morgan, R. M., & Levy, I. (2024). Unpacking workplace stress and forensic expert decision-making: From theory to practice. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 8, 100473. [PDF]


LaBat, D. E., & Kukucka, J. (2024). How cognitive bias can impair forensic facial identification. The SciTech Lawyer, 20(2), 13-16. [PDF]


Growns, B., Kukucka, J., Moorhead, R., & Helm, R. K. (2024). The British post office scandal: Mental health and social experiences of wrongly convicted and wrongly accused individuals. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 29, 17-31. [PDF]


Kukucka, J. (2023). Growing pains of addressing cognitive bias in legal contexts: A commentary on Berryessa et al. (2022). Legal and Criminological Psychology, 28, 213-216. [PDF]


Kukucka, J. (2022). On the (mis)calculation of forensic science error rates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2215695119. [PDF]


Kukucka, J. (2022). "There is no 'right' answer": The perils of cognitive bias in autopsy decisions. For the Defense, 7(4), 6-8. [PDF]


Growns, B., Dunn, J. D., Helm, R. K., Towler, A., & Kukucka, J. (2022). The low prevalence effect in fingerprint comparison amongst forensic science trainees and novices. PLoS ONE, 17, e0272338. [PDF]


Kukucka, J., Horodyski, A. M., & Dardis, C. M. (2022). The exoneree health and life experiences (ExHaLE) study: Trauma exposure and mental health among wrongly convicted individuals. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 28, 387-399. [PDF]


Quigley-McBride, A., Dror, I. E., Roy, T., Garrett, B. L., & Kukucka, J. (2022). A practical tool for information management in forensic decisions: Using linear sequential unmasking-expanded (LSU-E) in casework. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 4, 100216. [PDF]


Dror, I. E., & Kukucka, J. (2021). Linear sequential unmasking–expanded (LSU-E): A general approach for improving decision making as well as minimizing noise and bias. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 3, 100161. [PDF]


Kukucka, J., Clow, K. A., Horodyski, A. M., Deegan, K., & Gayleard, N. M. (2021). Do exonerees face housing discrimination? An email-based field experiment and content analysis. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 27, 570-580. [PDF]


Dror, I. E., Melinek, J., Arden, J. L., Kukucka, J., Hawkins, S., Carter, J., & Atherton, D. (2021). Cognitive bias in forensic pathology decisions. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 66, 1751-1757. [PDF]



Growns, B., & Kukucka, J. (2021). The prevalence effect in fingerprint identification: Match and non-match base rates impact misses and false alarms. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35, 751-760. [PDF]


Grove, L. J., & Kukucka, J. (2021). Do laypeople recognize youth as a risk factor for false confession? A test of the "common sense" hypothesis. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 28, 185-205. [PDF]


Rothweiler, J. N., Goodwin, K. A., & Kukucka, J. (2020). Presence of administrators differentially impacts eyewitness discriminability for same- and other-race identifications. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 1530-1537. [PDF]


Kukucka, J., Hiley, A., & Kassin, S. M. (2020). Forensic confirmation bias: Do jurors discount examiners who were exposed to task-irrelevant information? Journal of Forensic Sciences, 65, 1978-1990. [PDF]


Crozier, W. E., Kukucka, J., & Garrett, B. L. (2020). Juror appraisals of forensic evidence: Effects of blind proficiency and cross-examination. Forensic Science International, 315, 110433. [PDF]


Kukucka, J., Dror, I. E., Yu, M., Hall, L., & Morgan, R. M. (2020). The impact of evidence lineups on fingerprint expert decisions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 1143-1153. [PDF]


Despodova, N. M., Kukucka, J., & Hiley, A. (2020). Can defense attorneys detect forensic confirmation bias? Effects on evidentiary judgments and trial strategies. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 228, 216-220. [PDF]


Kukucka, J. (2020). People who live in ivory towers shouldn't throw stones: A refutation of Curley et al. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2, 110-113. [PDF]


Kukucka, J., Applegarth, H. K., & Mello, A. L. (2020). Do exonerees face employment discrimination similar to actual offenders? Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25, 17-32. [PDF]


Kukucka, J., & Evelo, A. J. (2019). Stigma against false confessors impacts post-exoneration financial compensation. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 37, 372-387. [PDF]


Kassin, S. M., Russano, M. B., Amrom, A. D., Hellgren, J., Kukucka, J., & Lawson, V. Z. (2019). Does video recording inhibit crime suspects? Evidence from a fully randomized field experiment. Law and Human Behavior, 43, 45-55. [PDF]


Zapf, P. A., Kukucka, J., Kassin, S. M., & Dror, I. E. (2018). Cognitive bias in forensic mental health assessment: Evaluator beliefs about its nature and scope. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 24, 1-10. [PDF]


Kukucka, J., Kassin, S. M., Zapf, P. A., & Dror, I. E. (2017). Cognitive bias and blindness: A global survey of forensic science examiners. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 452-459. [PDF]




Kassin, S. M., Kukucka, J., Lawson, V. Z., & DeCarlo, J. (2017). Police reports of mock suspect interrogations: A test of accuracy and perception. Law and Human Behavior, 41, 230-243. [PDF]


Marion, S. B., Kukucka, J., Collins, C., Kassin, S. M., & Burke, T. M. (2016). Lost proof of innocence: The impact of confessions on alibi witnesses. Law and Human Behavior, 40, 65-71. [PDF]


Kukucka, J. (2014). The journey or the destination? Disentangling process and outcome in forensic identification. Forensic Science Policy & Management, 5, 112-114. [PDF]


Kukucka, J., & Kassin, S. M. (2014). Do confessions taint perceptions of handwriting evidence? An empirical test of the forensic confirmation bias. Law and Human Behavior, 38, 256-270. [PDF]


Kassin, S. M., Kukucka, J., Lawson, V. Z., & DeCarlo, J. (2014). Does video recording alter the behavior of police during interrogation? A mock crime-and-investigation study. Law and Human Behavior, 38, 73-83. [PDF]


Kassin, S. M., Dror, I. E., & Kukucka, J. (2013). The forensic confirmation bias: Problems, perspectives, and proposed solutions. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2, 42-52. [PDF]



Goodwin, K. A., Kukucka, J. P., & Hawks, I. M. (2013). Co-witness confidence, conformity, and eyewitness memory: An examination of normative and informational social influences. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 91-100.  [PDF]

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

Kukucka, J., & Findley, K. A. (2023). Cognitive bias in medicolegal judgments. In K. A. Findley, C. Rossant, K. Sasakura, L. Schneps, W. Squier, & K. Wester (Eds.), Shaken Baby Syndrome: Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy (pp. 205-217). Cambridge University Press. 


Kukucka, J., & Dror, I. E. (2023). Human factors in forensic science: Psychological causes of bias and error. In D. DeMatteo & K. C. Scherr (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law (pp. 621-642). Oxford University Press. [PDF]


Kukucka, J. (2018). Confirmation bias in the forensic sciences: Causes, consequences, and countermeasures. In W. J. Koen & C. M. Bowers (Eds.), The Psychology and Sociology of Wrongful Convictions: Forensic Science Reform (pp. 223-245). New York: Elsevier. [PDF]


Kassin, S. M., Perillo, J. T., Appleby, S. C., & Kukucka, J. (2015). Confessions. In B. L. Cutler & P. A. Zapf (Eds.), APA Handbook of Forensic Psychology: Volume 2 (pp. 245-270). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. [PDF]

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS


Kukucka, J. (2014, March 18). Socrates in the classroom: Helping students to discover what's already there. APA Division 2: GSTA Blog. Retrieved from http://teachpsych.org/Default.aspx?pageId=1784686&mode=PostView&bmi=1518822.