JUSTICE Lab

The JUSTICE (Just Undergraduate Students Thoroughly Investigating Crime Ethically) Lab consists of several undergraduates students who are interested in conducting research investigating psychology and law related issues. Topics that we investigate include false confessions, perceptions of exonerees, jury decision-making, and more.

As a member of the JUSTICE Lab, students learn how to design research studies from the bottom up. This includes reading journal articles, generating new ideas, developing materials, collecting data, and analyzing data. Students also have the opportunity to present research at national and regional psychology conferences.

Note: Professor Normile always recruits students to join the lab at the end of every semester during course registration. If you are an undergraduate student at Allegheny College interested in joining the JUSTICE Lab, please reach out to Professor Normile and schedule an appointment.

Current Members

Ella Ashton

Abby Behrend

Riley Carter

Hope Dixon

Chloe Fry

Chloe Fry is a Sophomore Psychology major with a minor in History. Choloe joined the JUSTICE lab because, "I find both the law and psychology incredibly interesting, particularly how they intersect. I love learning and studying our legal system and people's perceptions of it. "

Upon graduation, Chloe hopes to go to law school, preferably in Philadelphia.

Maggie Reinke

Former Lab Members

Kyle Stallard '22

Alexa Whyte '23

Carolyn Sidell '23

Will Kabazie '23

Ella Lunney '23

Zoe Romanowski '24

Emily Eshleman '24

Hannah Hinterleiter '24

Sarah Thorman '24

Carolyn McAndrews '24

William Lowthert, '24

Malia Guillory '25

Asaad Bell '25

Meghan Boudreau '25

Colin Jimerson '25

Emma Chow '25

Nathan Jyachosky '25

Mycah Quevillon '25

Emma Gilbert

AP-LS 2023 (Philadelphia, PA)

JUSTICE Lab members Ella Lunney '23, Sarah Thorman '24, and Hannah Hinterleiter '24 presenting our lab study entitled "Exoneree Identity Influences Support for Exonerees."

AP-LS 2023 (Philadelphia, PA)

Will Kabazie '23 presents his summer research project entitled "Effects of Training and the Cognitive Interview on Deception Detection Accuracy."

AP-LS 2024 (Los Angeles, CA)

Sarah Thorman '24, Carolyn McAndrews '24, Emma Chow '25, and Hannah Hinterleiter '24 present our lab study entitled "Beauty, Bribes, and Bias: The Impact of Jailhouse Informant Testimony on Jury Decision-Making."

AP-LS 2024 (Los Angeles, CA)

Will Lowthert '24 presents his summer research project entitled "Talking with the Mic Off: The Passage of Interrogation Recording Laws."

AP-LS 2024 (Los Angeles, CA)

Emily Eshleman '24 presents her summer research project entitled "Juror Decision-Making in Gun Violence Cases: The Impact of Victim Race and Sexuality."

AP-LS 2024 (Los Angeles, CA)

Sarah Thorman '24, Carolyn McAndrews '24, Emily Eshleman '24, Emma Chow '25, Hannah Hinterleiter '24, Will Lowthert '24, and Chris Normile (PI) celebrating a successful conference

End of Year Celebration

Pictured Back: Emma Chow '25, Mycah Quevillon '25, Colin Jimerson '25, Asaad Bell '25, Meghan Boudreau '25

Pictured Front: Chris Normile, Hannah Hinteleiter '24, Will Lowthert '24, Emily Eshleman '24, Sarah Thorman '24, Carolyn McAndrews '24

JUSTICE Lab Award Winners

5 members of the JUSTICE Lab were given awards at the annual Honors Convocation at Allegheny College

AP-LS 2025 (San Juan, PR)

Hannah Hinterleiter '24 presenting her Senior Comp project entitled "Perceptions of School and Custodial Interrogations."

AP-LS 2025 (San Juan, PR)

Emily Eshleman '24 presenting her Senior Comp Project entitled "Verdicts and Victim Blame: The Impact of Victim Race and Sexuality."

AP-LS 2025 (San Juan, PR)

Mycah Quevillon '25 presenting our lab project entitled "Examining the Influence of Entirely Opposing Confession & DNA Evidence on Mock-Jurors' Perceptions."

AP-LS 2025 (San Juan, PR)

Chris Normile (PI), Mycah Quvillon '25, Hannah Hinterleiter '24, and Emily Eshleman '24 celebrating a successful AP-LS.

NCUR 2025 (Pittsburgh, PA)

Nathan Jyachosky '25 presenting his senior comprehensive project entitled "Biases in Jury Decision-Making: Autism versus Down Syndrome" at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research

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