Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

Bettens, T., & Normile, C. J. (2023). Concerns and recommendations regarding the training of school administrators in interrogating students. Psychology, Crime, & Law. Advanced Online Copy. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2023.2196424

Scherr, K. C., & Normile, C. J. (2022). False confessions predict a delay between release from incarceration and official exoneration. Law and Human Behavior, 46, 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000479

Scherr, K. C., Normile, C. J., Luna, S., Redlich, A. D., Lawrence, M., & Catlin, M. (2020) False admissions of guilt associated with wrongful convictions undermine people’s perceptions of exonerees. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26, 234-244. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000238

Mindthoff, A., Evans, J. R., Perez, G., Woestehoff, S. A., Olaguez, A. P., Klemfuss, J. Z., Normile, C. J., Scherr, K. C., Carlucci, M. E., Carol, R. N., Meissner, C. A., Michael, S. W., Russano, M. B., Stocks, E. L., Vallano, J. P., & Woody, W. D. (2020). Juror perceptions of intoxicated suspects’ interrogation-related behaviors. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 47, 222-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854819888962  

Normile, C. J., Bloesch, E., Davoli, C., & Scherr, K. C. (2019). Introducing the new statistics in the classroom. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. Advanced Online Publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/stl0000141 [PDF]

Catlin, M., Scherr, K. C., Barlett, C., Jacobs, E., & Normile, C. J. (2019). Bounded self-blame: The effects of relationship and victimization on judgments of sexual assault. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, NP8800-NP8823. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519846863 

Mindthoff, A., Evans, J. R., Perez, G., Woestehoff, S. A., Olaguez, A. P., Klemfuss, J. Z., Normile, C. J., Scherr, K. C., Carlucci, M. E., Carol, R. N., Meissner, C. A., Michael, S. W., Russano, M. B., Stocks, E. L., Vallano, J. P., & Woody, W. D. (2018). A survey of potential jurors' perceptions of interrogations and confessions. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 24, 430-448. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000182

Normile, C. J. & Scherr, K. C. (2018). Police tactics and guilt status uniquely influence suspects’ physiologic reactivity and resistance to confess. Law and Human Behavior, 42, 497-506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000306 [PDF]

Scherr, K. C., Normile, C. J., & Putney, H. (2018). Perpetually stigmatized: False confessions prompt underlying mechanisms that motivate negative perceptions of exonerees. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 24, 341-352. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000163

Scherr, K. C., Normile, C. J., Bierstetel, S. J., Franks, A. S., & Hawkins, I. (2018). Knowingly but naively: The overpowering influence of innocence on interrogation rights decision-making. Law and Human Behavior, 42, 26-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000265 

Scherr, K. C., Normile, C. J., & Sarmiento, M. C. (2017). Reluctant to embrace innocence: The influence of persevering culpability judgments on people’s willingness to support reintegration services for exonerees. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 14, 529-538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11292-017-9306-2 

Other

Normile, C. J. (2015). Planting the seeds of doubt: How memory reactivation and interrogation tactics influence internalized false confessions (Master's Thesis). Retrieved from: https://mdsoar.org/handle/11603/2043