Top scholars supported Loftus
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Case No.
S133805
2-15-06 5 PM
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA
________________________________________________________
NICOLE TAUS,
Plaintiff and Respondent,
vs.
ELIZABETH LOFTUS, et al.,
Defendants and Appellants.
Appeal From an Order of the Solano County Superior Court
Honorable James F. Moelk, Judge
Review After Judgment of the Court of Appeal,
First Appellate District, Division Two
Justice Paul R. Haerle, Acting Presiding Justice
APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO FILE AMICI CURIAE BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF Defendants and
APPELLANTS,
ELIZABETH LOFTUS, ET. AL.
R. Chris Barden, Ph.D., J.D., LP
R.C. BARDEN & ASSOCIATES
1093 E. Duffer Lane
No. Salt Lake, UT 84054
Tel: 801-230-8328
E-mail: rcbarden@mac.com
As Pro Bono Attorney for the
National Committee of Scientists for Academic Liberty
Submitted to the California Supreme Court by California Bar Member
Mark C. Raskoff, S.B. No. 72330
Bishop, Barry,Howe, Haney & Ryder
2000 Powell Street 14th Floor
Emeryville, California 94608
Tel. No. 510.596.0888
Fax No. 510.596.089
Case No. S133805
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA
________________________________________________________
NICOLE TAUS,
Plaintiff and Respondent,
vs.
ELIZABETH LOFTUS, et al.,
Defendants and Appellants.
Appeal From an Order of the Solano County Superior Court
Honorable James F. Moelk, Judge
Review After Judgment of the Court of Appeal,
First Appellate District, Division Two
Justice Paul R. Haerle, Acting Presiding Justice
TO THE HONORABLE RONALD M. GEORGE, CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME
COURT, AND TO THE ASSOCIATE JUSTICES OF THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT:
Pursuant to California Rules of Court, Rule 29.1(f), the National Committee of
Scientists for Academic Liberty (“Scientists”) respectfully request permission
to file their concurrently-lodged Amicus Curiae Brief in the above-entitled
case in support of Defendant-Appellant, Elizabeth F. Loftus, et al.
SCIENTISTS amici are a group of nationally and internationally prominent
psychiatrists, psychologists and behavioral scientists, Federal grant
recipients, private foundation grant recipients, members of professional
journal editorial boards, journal reviewers, recipients of national research
awards, collectively publishers of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific
journal articles, and/or licensed clinical health care practitioners
(SCIENTISTS Amicus, Exhibit A for a list of the names, addresses, e-mail
addresses, university positions and other affiliations of the amici). Put
simply, this group of internationally acclaimed scientists reads like a “Who’s
Who” in the worlds of psychiatry, psychology and cognitive (including the field
of memory) science. These amici have extensive experience with conducting and
publishing peer-reviewed scientific research, clinical service provision,
program administration, and advising on public policy issues germane to the
fields of cognition, memory, development, trauma, and posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) for the full range of relevant populations, including civilians
and veterans, adults and children. They are, in essence, the relevant
scientific community for the theoretical disputes underlying this
litigation.[1] Prior to the litigation at issue, they were not organized
in any formal way, and many, if not most of them, have never met the individual
defendants in this case.
As argued infra, the issues in
the case of Taus vs. Loftus et al. are so relevant to the past, present and future
work of Amici as scientists and practitioners that they have joined together to
form The Committee of Scientists for Academic Liberty to raise scientific and
policy issues they feel are essential to the future of free and unfettered
scientific investigation and debate. This group of highly esteemed
international experts fear for the viability of the social science and
biomedical research enterprises if lawsuits such as this one are permitted to
derail the scientific process and crush the processes of scientific discourse,
debate and investigation under the wheels of costly, wasteful and destructive
personal litigation.
As with any expert witness opinion the goal of this brief is to assist the
court by providing detailed, technical or other relevant information not
otherwise available to the court.
SCIENTISTS
amici submit their accompanying brief to provide an in-depth analysis and
discussion of several issues including but not limited to the following:
A.
This case involves a highly newsworthy, important and contentious scientific
debate of great public interest. We are concerned about the use of this
lawsuit as a strategic attempt to prohibit participation by the Defendants in
the public and scientific debate and thus improperly control the outcome.
B. Continuation of this lawsuit is likely
to chill, impede or destroy significant areas of research within the biomedical
and social sciences especially areas involving interviews.
C. Important areas of scientific research will be
imperiled if research subjects who voluntarily inject themselves into national
science controversies are later permitted to sue researchers for invasion of
privacy.
D. Research involving public documents is
essential to scientific progress and should not be subject to improper privacy
litigation.
E. Slander litigation based on newsworthy,
factually accurate comments at professional and educational conferences, could
chill, impede or destroy debate on important scientific issues.
For these and other reasons as argued in our Amicus brief, SCIENTISTS amici
respectfully request this Court to accept the accompanying brief for filing in
this case.
Dated: April _____, 2007
R. Christopher Barden, Ph.D., J.D., LP
R.C. BARDEN & ASSOCIATES
1093 E. Duffer Lane
No. Salt Lake, UT 84054
Tel: 801-230-8328
E-mail: rcbarden@mac.com
By: ___________________________
R. Christopher Barden, Ph.D., J.D., LP (Pro Hac Vice)
As Pro Bono Attorney for the National Committee of Scientists for Academic
Liberty
Submitted to the California Supreme Court by
Mark C. Raskoff, J.D. S.B. No. 72330
Bishop, Barry, Howe, Haney & Ryder
2000 Powell Street 14th Floor
Emeryville, California 94608
Tel. No. 510.596.0888: Fax No. 510.596.0899
APPENDIX A
DESCRIPTION OF AMICI CURIAE
Aaron T. Beck, M.D., University Professor of
Psychiatry Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine, is the founder of cognitive therapy. He has received numerous
awards, including research awards from the American Psychiatric Association,
the American Psychological Association, and the Institute of Medicine. He
has also been listed as one of the ten Americans with the greatest influence in
the history of American psychiatry. Dr. Beck is the author or co-author
of over 500 publications, including 17 books. His cognitive therapy, the
most heavily researched form of psychotherapy, represents a major advance in
the understanding and treatment of a variety of psychiatric disorders including
affective disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, personality disorders,
and schizophrenia.
Henry L. Roediger, III, Ph.D. is the James S.
McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Department Chair at
Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Roediger’s research has centered
on human learning and memory, and he has published 180 articles and chapters on
various aspects of cognitive processes involved in remembering. His
recent research has focused on illusions of memory (how we sometimes remember
events differently from the way they actually occurred) and effects of testing
memory (how retrieving events from memory can change their representation,
often making them more likely to be retrieved in the future. Dr. Roediger
served as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory
and Cognition (1985-1989) and was founding editor of Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review (1994-1999). He has served as President of the American Psychological
Society (2003-2004), Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society
(1989-1990) and Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (2003-2004).
He was recently elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Harrison G. Pope, Jr, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry
at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory
at McClean Hospital, Harvard’s principal psychiatric teaching
hospital. Dr. Pope is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed
scientific papers in a wide range of fields within psychiatry, and has
published extensively on the controversy surrounding “repressed memory” and
childhood sexual abuse. Professor Pope is among the approximately 260
psychologists and psychiatrists in the world identified by the Institute for
Scientific Information as the most “highly cited” (i.e., top one half of one
percent of all published psychologists and psychiatrists worldwide in terms of
citation impact).
Richard McNally, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and
Director of Clinical Training at Harvard University. Dr. McNally is the author
of over 250 publications, many in the field of traumatic stress and memory,
including the book Remembering Trauma (2003, Harvard University Press).
His research, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, includes
laboratory studies on cognitive functioning in adults who report having been
sexually abused as children. He served on the American Psychiatric
Association’s committee for revising the diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic
stress disorder (PTSD). Dr McNally is among the approximately 260 psychologists
and psychiatrists in the world identified by the Institute for Scientific
Information as the most “highly cited” (i.e., top one half of one percent of
all published psychologists and psychiatrists worldwide in terms of citation
impact).
James Hudson, M.D., Sc.D. -- is Associate Professor of
Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Director of the Biological
Psychiatry Laboratory and the Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Program at
McLean Hospital, Harvard's principal psychiatric teaching hospital. Dr. Hudson
is the author of more than 250 peer reviewed scientific publications in a wide
range of psychiatric fields. Professor Hudson has published extensively on the
controversy surrounding "repressed memory" and childhood sexual
abuse. Professor Hudson is among the approximately 260 psychologists and
psychiatrists in the world identified by the Institute for Scientific
Information as the most "highly cited" (i.e., top one half of one
percent of all published psychologists and psychiatrists worldwide in terms of
citation impact.
Richard Ofshe, Ph.D. is a Professor (emeritus, recalled to
service) in the Department of Sociology of the University of California at
Berkeley. He is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship,
the Dorcus Award of the International Society for Clinical and Experimental
Hypnosis and shared in the award of the Pulitzer Prize for Pubic Service given
to the Point Reyes Light Newspaper. He has been the recipient of Federal
research grants and has served on the editorial boards of scientific journals.
His research in recent years has focused on two topics, the misuse of influence
by incompetent psychotherapists leading to pseudomemories of sexual abuse (so
called recovered memories) and the misuse of influence by police detectives
during interrogation leading to false confessions by the innocent. His work on
both topics is internationally recognized.
William M. Grove, Ph.D. -- is Assoc. Professor and former
Co-Director of the Ph.D. Clinical Training Program at the University of
Minnesota, Department of Psychology. Professor Grove of the University is
an internationally recognized expert in psychopathology, diagnosis, behavior
genetics and scientific methodology. Professor Grove has served as a reviewer
for virtually every leading journal in psychology and psychiatry, and is the
author of over 100 professional publications. Dr. Grove has been awarded
several millions of dollars of research grants from the National Institutes of
Health. He has also testified as an expert witness on the methods of
science in many legal cases involving so-called “repressed memories”.
Paul R. McHugh M.D. Presently University Distinguished
Service Professor of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University, Dr. McHugh
was Psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1975-2001. He has
published 4 books and over 150 scientific papers on psychiatry and related
subjects. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine (NAS) and of the
President's Council on Bioethics and recipient of the Menninger Award from the
American College of Physicians and the Zubin Award from the American
Psychopathological Association.
Robert Perloff, Ph.D. is the Distinguished
Service Professor Emeritus of Business Administration and of
Psychology at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of
Pittsburgh. A past president of the American Psychological
Association, Dr. Perloff was also president of the American
Psychological Foundation, the Eastern Psychological Association, the Evaluation
Research Society, and several other regional and national associations. He is
the author of over 400 publications, reviews, commentaries, and presentations
at universities and professional conferences. In 2000, the American
Psychological Foundation awarded him its Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in
Psychology in the Public Interest
Stephen Ceci, Ph.D. is a Chaired Professor of Developmental
Psychology and Co-Director of the Cornell Institute for Research on Children in
the Department of Human Development at Cornell University. Dr.
Ceci is the author of over 300 articles, chapters, reviews and books many in
the field of children’s memory, including the award-winning book Jeopardy in
the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children’s Testimony (1995), published
by the American Psychological Association. In 1994-1995, Dr. Ceci served on the
American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) Task Force on Recovered Memories
of Childhood Abuse.
August Piper, M.D. is a clinical and forensic psychiatrist in
Seattle, WA. Dr. Piper has testified as an expert in a number of
prominent “repressed memories” trials. He is the author of several
essential pieces in the field including “Hoax and Reality :The Bizarre World of
Multiple Personality Disorder”, “Custer's last stand: Brown, Scheflin,
and Whitfield's latest attempt to salvage "dissociative
amnesia." and "Multiple Personality Disorder”.
Christopher Frueh, Ph.D. is a tenured Professor and
Director, Division of Public Psychiatry, within the Department of Psychiatry at
the Medical University of South Carolina. A clinical
psychologist, he also serves as Director of the PTSD clinic at
the VA Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina. He has been Principal
Investigator on 7 federally-funded research grants in the arena of PTSD, has
over 100 scientific publications, and provides editorial board service for 4
scientific journals—this includes currently serving as an Associate
Editor for the Journal of Traumatic Stress. He has testified
before a U.S. congressional committee on mental health service delivery for
veterans, and consults for the South Carolina Dept. of Mental Health.
Steve Lynn, Ph.D. is a Professor in the
Department of Psychology at the State University of New York at
Binghamton. He has 237 publications, including the book Truth in
Memory. Many of these publications cover the topics of hypnosis
and memory recovery techniques, traumatic stress, dissociation and purportedly
repressed memories, and psychopathology. Professional distinctions include: a) past
president of the American Psychological Association Division of Scientific Hypnosis;
b) Diplomate in both Clinical and Forensic Psychology (ABPP); c) editorial
board or editor service for 13 scientific journals; d) research funded by the
National Institute of Mental Health; e) Fellow in 6 professional
organizations, including the American Psychological Association and the
American Psychological Society; and f) numerous professional awards including
the Chancellor's Award of the State University of New York for Scholarship,
Creativity, and Professional Activity.
Peter van Koppen, Ph.D. is a tenured Senior
Chief Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law
Enforcement (NSCR) in Leiden, the Netherlands, as well as a tenured
Professor of Law and Psychology at the Departments of Law of both Maastricht
University and the Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Both an
experimental psychologist and a lawyer, he has over 200
scientific publications in the field of psychology and law and serves as
Co-Editor of Psychology, Crime, and Law. He has served as expert witness in
more than 200 cases in the Netherlands, Belgium, and England. He served on a
committee for the Dutch minister of Justice to investigate cases of ritual
sexual abuse. He wrote a report for the Dutch minister of Justice on how the
police and prosecution should handle cases with repressed and recovered
memories. Currently he serves on the Dutch National Expert Group on
Unusual Sexual Crimes of the College of Attorneys-General to which the
prosecution is obliged to turn for advice before any arrest is made in cases in
which claims of recovered memories are made.
John F. Kihlstrom, Ph.D. is Professor in the
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, where he
is also a member of the interdisciplinary Institute for Cognitive and Brain
Sciences and the Institute for Personality and Social Research. He has
published more than 100 articles, chapters, and books, many on the subject of
memory and its pathology, including a number of articles on trauma and memory
as well as a textbook and handbook chapters on the dissociative disorders and
on functional amnesia.
Gerald Rosen, Ph.D. is a practicing psychologist in
Seattle, Washington, and holds an appointment as Clinical Professor in
the Department of Psychology, University of Washington. He is editor of the
text Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies, and
author of over 60 articles, many in the field of posttraumatic studies.
Sally Satel, M.D. is a psychiatrist and Resident
Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She has published
two books, PC MD and One Nation Under Therapy, and writes frequently for the
Wall Street Journal and the Science section of the New York Times. Her
writings have included extensive discussion of issues germane to trauma, memory
and reporting of trauma, and treatment of PTSD. She has testified before
a U.S. congressional committee on matters related to PTSD funding for the
Veterans Affairs system.
Maryanne Garry, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer
(the U.S. equivalent of Associate Professor) in Psychology at Victoria
University of Wellington, in New Zealand. Her area of expertise is memories for
personal experiences, particularly false memories from childhood. She has
numerous scholarly publications, has been Principal Investigator on grants from
both the U.S. and New Zealand, and is the Chair of her human research ethics
committee.
Dr, Hans F.M. Crombag, Ph.D. is Professor
Emeritus of Law & Psychology at the Universities of Antwerp (Belgium),
Leiden and Maastricht (both in the Netherlands). He has published
approximately 200 scientific publications in Dutch or English, most of which
are concerned with problems of legal evidence. The most relevant in the present
context is his book (written in collaboration with prof. Harald Merckelbach)
Hervonden Herinneringen en Andere Misverstanden (Recovered Memories and
Other Misconceptions. Amsterdam: Contact, 1996), that was also
translated into German (Missbrauch Vergisst Man Nicht: Erinnern und Verdrängen
- Fehldiagnosen und Fehlurteile. Berlin: Ullstein Buchverlag, 1997).
David F. Bjorklund, Ph.D. is a Professor of
Psychology at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of
Children’s Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences,
co-author, of Looking at Children: An Introduction to Child Development, and
The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology; he is the
co-editor of False-Memory Creation in Children and Adults: Theory, Research,
and Implications, among others. He has served as Associate Editor of
Child Development (1997-2001) and will become the next Editor
of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (January, 2007).
He has served on the editorial boards of Developmental Psychology,
Cognitive Development, Journal of Comparative Psychology, Journal of Cognition
and Development, and Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. He has
published more than 120 scholarly articles and has received funding for his research
from the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the German
Research Foundation.
Phillip W. Esplin, Ph.D. is in private practice in
forensic psychology. He is also a senior research consultant with
the National Institute of Child Health & Development: Child Witness
Project.
James M. Wood, Ph.D. is tenured Professor in the
Department of Psychology of the University of Texas at El Paso.
He has 58 publications, including the book What’s Wrong With the
Rorschach? Much of his research addresses child interviewing in sexual
abuse cases, suggestibility of child and adult witnesses, and the use of
controversial assessment techniques such as the Rorschach Inkblot test in
clinical and forensic contexts. His work has been reported in the New
York Times, the New York Review of Books, and Scientific American. He
is on the editorial board of three professional journals: Child Maltreatment,
Assessment, and the Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice.
Richard Gist, Ph.D. is the Principal Assistant to the
Director of the Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department. He has written and
consulted all over the world on matters related to first-responding in the
aftermath of disasters and terrorist attacks.
Irving Kirsch, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical
Psychology at the University of Plymouth. He is an author of
more than 200 scientific journal articles, books, and book chapters, most of
which focus on the effects of suggestion in various contexts, including the
effects of suggestion on memory. He is a past president of the
American Psychological Association Division of Psychological Hypnosis,
an editorial consultant to numerous scientific journals in the field of
psychology, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and
American Psychological Society, and a recipient of many professional
awards.
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. is Nevada Foundation
Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada.
An author of 25 books and 340 scientific articles, he has developed a widely-researched
experimental analysis of human language and cognition, as well as psychotherapy
methods that link this work to a variety of disorders. In 1992 he was listed by
the Institute for Scientific Information as the 30th “highest impact” psychologist
in the world during 1986-1990 based on the citation impact of his publications.
He has been President of Division 25 of the American Psychological
Association, of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology,
and of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He was the first
Secretary-Treasurer of the American Psychological Society. He has
received the Don F. Hake Award for Exemplary Contributions to Basic Behavioral
Research and Its Applications from Division 25 of the American Psychological
Association and was appointed by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna
Shalala to a 5 year term on the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse in the
National Institutes of Health.
James D. Herbert, Ph.D. is a tenured Associate
Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at
Drexel University, where he also currently serves as Associate Dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences. He is Associate Editor of two scientific
journals (The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice and Cognitive and
Behavioral Practice). He is a Fellow of the Commission for Scientific
Medicine and Mental Health, and is on the Board of Scientific Advisors of the
American Council on Science and Health. His research on anxiety
disorders has been funded by the NIMH, and he has published over 80 scientific
papers on a variety of psychological topics, including the scientific basis of
clinical practice and the proliferation of pseudoscience in mental
health.
Robert Montgomery, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who
served on the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on
Empirically Validated Treatments and as Chair of the Clinical Interest Group of
Association for Behavior Analysis. He has published in a variety of
professional journals on such topics as PTSD, medication effects on developing
brains, reduction of aggression, and overcorrection. He currently serves
as a fellow and editorial board member of the Commission for Scientific
Medicine and Mental Health, and as an editorial board member of The Journal of
Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention.
Harald Merckelbach, Ph.D. is a Professor of
Experimental Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht,
the Netherlands. He is also a Vice-Dean of this faculty. He has
published more than 300 research papers, most of them in domain of
psychopathology, forensic psychology, and psychology & law. He frequently
serves as an expert witness in court cases that require expert opinions on
malingering, confessions, PTSD, schizophrenia, memory loss, and/or recovered
memories. Recently, he served on a committee appointed by the Dutch
Minister of Health to investigate cases of recovered memories (2004).
James Ost, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer at the
University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom and a Chartered Psychologist of the
British Psychological Society. He teaches courses on Advanced
Cognitive Psychology and the Psychology of False and Recovered Memory.
He has given over 30 presentations at international conferences, and published
several articles on the Recovered Memory controversy in peer-reviewed journals
(e.g., Applied Cognitive Psychology, British Journal of Psychology,
Memory). He is also regularly invited to give presentations to professional
audiences about issues surrounding contested claims of childhood abuse.
He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the BFMS, a registered
charity who provide support to individuals and professionals in contested cases
of child abuse.
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. is a tenured Associate
Professor of Psychology at Emory University. He is founder and editor of
the new journal, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice and is past
(2001-2002) President of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology,
which is Section III within Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) of the
American Psychological Association. He is a member of eight journal
editorial boards, including the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychological
Assessment, and Clinical Psychology Review. He has published
over 130 articles, book chapters, and books in the areas of personality
assessment, anxiety disorders, psychiatric classification and diagnosis, and
questionable practices in clinical psychology. He has published several
peer-reviewed articles and chapters on the controversy concerning false
memories of abuse and suggestive therapeutic procedures that can give rise to
such memories. His work on psychological pseudo-science has been widely
featured in the media.
Marc Sageman, Ph.D. is psychiatrist and Clinical
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and a lecturer at the Department of
Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania; a senior fellow
at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia; a fellow of the American
Psychiatric Association; and a fellow at the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia. He is the coordinator of the Law and Psychiatry program at
the University of Pennsylvania and has taught a year-long seminar of
the same title for the past four years. He has published and lectured on
the concept of emotional trauma for the past ten years.
Grant J. Devilly, Ph.D. is a Professorial Fellow
in Neuropsychology at the Swinburne University and an adjunct
research fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. A clinical
psychologist, he directs the Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Neuropsychology
and Psychiatry Research Unit within the Centre for Neuropsychology at Swinburne
University. He conducts both treatment and experimental
psychopathology studies and has published widely on the nature, concomitants
and treatment of trauma reactions in international journals. He has acted as an
expert witness in forensic cases relating to trauma and memory of events and is
a frequent “first-call” for the media on topics related to the above.
Anthony Pratkanis, Ph.D. is currently Professor of
Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he
studies social psychology, social influence, and prejudice reduction. He
earned his Ph.D. in 1984 from Ohio State University. A frequent contributor to
scientific journals and the popular press (over 80 publications) on the topics
of persuasion and influence, he is a co-editor of Attitude Structure
and Function, Social Psychology, The Science of Social Influence, and a
past associate editor for the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
His research program has investigated such topics as the delayed effects of
persuasion, attitudes and memory, groupthink, affirmative action, subliminal
persuasion, mass communications, source credibility, persuasion and democracy,
and a variety of influence processes. In 1995, he was elected a
fellow of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Pratkanis is the founding
editor of a new scientific journal, Social Influence. Currently, he is
working with various groups including law enforcement agencies on strategies
for preventing economic fraud crimes, with government agencies including the
United States military on countering the propaganda of terrorists and
dictators, and with the National Association of Attorneys General’s Tobacco
Litigation Group as an expert on marketing and consumer behavior.
Jon D. Elhai, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of
Psychology at the Disaster Mental Health Institute and Department of Psychology
at The University of South Dakota. He has published more than 40
scientific papers in mental health journals and books, and he is the Co-Editor
of the Journal of Trauma Practice, and Managing Editor of the Journal of Trauma
and Dissociation.
Timothy Tumlin, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in
private consulting practice in Burr Ridge, Illinois. For seven years his
clinical practice has focused on assessment and treatment of individuals in
medical treatment for chronic pain. This has included the assessment and
treatment of many individuals diagnosed with PTSD. He has served as an expert
witness in federal and state court cases in which PTSD diagnoses were at
issue.
D. Stephen Lindsay, Ph.D. is a Professor of
Psychology at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
He is a cognitive psychologist specializing in human memory, with a
particular specialty in memory errors and distortions. He has
published 57 articles and 11 chapters, co-edited two volumes, and co-authored
an introductory psychology text. He is currently Editor of the
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, published by the American
Psychological Association.
Peter A. Ornstein, Ph.D. is the F. Stuart Chapin
Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. He is a developmental psychologist who served as Co-Chair
of the American Psychological Association’s Working Group on Adult Memories of
Childhood Abuse. He has long been interested in the development
of children’s memory and cognition. His research has explored the
development of strategies for storing and retrieving information, long-term
retention of salient, personally-experienced events, and the implications of
children’s memory skills for understanding their testimony in legal
settings. He served as Associate Editor of Developmental
Psychology, and serves on numerous editorial boards.
Susan A. Clancy, Ph.D. is a research psychologist in
experimental psychopathology who, broadly, studies the impact of trauma on
memory functioning. Her research focuses on the relationship between
personality and clinical characteristics and false memory creation.
John W. Bush, Ph.D. is in private practice of clinical
psychology in Brooklyn, NY. He is also Chairperson of the New
York Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, a training
institute for mental health professionals, and author since 1996 of the
most-consulted Web site on cognitive behavior therapy.
Paul R. Lees-Hale, Ph.D. y is a clinical psychologist specializing
in the evaluation of trauma victims across the entire spectrum of human
tragedy. He is the recipient of the Nelson Butters National
Academy of Neuropsychology Award for Research Contributions to Clinical
Neuropsychology. He is the author or co-author of 200 publications,
including articles related to assessment of PTSD in forensic settings. He
has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, NASA, New
York Times, FBI, Rand Corporation, State of California, University of California
(UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCSF), California Department of Justice (Attorney General),
California Board of Psychology, National Security Agency, JFK Special Warfare
Center, California Bar Association, U.S. Army Intelligence Center & School,
U.S. Army Missile Command (MICOM), and U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Systems
Command. He was the first non-physician to conduct a court-ordered
independent examination in Canada.
Howard D. Eisman, Ph.D. is the Director of
Psychology and Behavioral Health at the Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, NY.
He is also Executive Director of the New York Institute for Cognitive and
Behavioral Therapies and conducts research on child and adult
psychopathology.
Mark Creamer, Ph.D. is Director of the
Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health and a Professor in the
Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. He is a
clinical psychologist with many years of experience in the field of traumatic
stress from both research and clinical perspectives. He has provided advice to
a variety of government and non-government agencies on psychological recovery
following disaster and trauma. He has published widely in the area and is on
the editorial board of the Journal of Traumatic Stress.
W. Jake Jacobs, Ph.D. is a Professor of
Psychology and Psychiatry, a Fellow in Sports Medicine, and founder
and director of the Anxiety Research Group at the University of Arizona.
In addition, he is the Head of Psychology at the University of Arizona
South. He currently serve on the Editorial Boards of
Traumatology and Psychological Review and on an APA Presidential Task Force
mandated to specify criteria that psychologists must meet to claim Proficiency
or Specialization in a field of practice. He served on the Continuing
Education Committee of the APA where he helped to set current
standards for Continuing Education in psychology. He has published over 60
peer-reviewed papers examining fear, stress, memory, and their role in the
etiology of various anxiety disorders.
Timothy E. Moore, Ph.D. is a Professor and Chair
of the Department of Psychology at Glendon College, York University in Toronto,
Canada. He is a cognitive psychologist who teaches Psychology
& Law. He has published articles on the reliability of children’s
courtroom testimony, is on the editorial board of the Journal of
Emotional Abuse, and is associate editor of the Scientific Review of Mental
Health Practices. He often serves as an expert witness in
criminal trials.
Daniel David, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and the President of the
International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied
Mental Health. He is also the Editor of the Journal of
Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapies. His expertise includes
evidence-based psychotherapy, cognitive science, cognitive-behavioral
interventions, clinical trials research. He has a private clinical practice and
has published 4 books and over 60 scientific articles.
Maggie Bruck, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. One of
her major teaching responsibilities is to provide residents and postdoctoral
fellows a solid background in the empirical literature on memory and
memory distortion, on scientifically validated interviewing techniques,
and on the perils of junk science. She is Associate Editor of Journal
of Experimental Child Psychology and sits on the editorial board of
several other peer-reviewed journals in psychology and psychology and the law.
She has published extensively in many fields of psychology including:
children’s autobiographical memory, developmental dyslexia, second language
acquisition, and first language acquisition.
Dr Amina Memon, Ph.D. is a Professor of Forensic
Psychology at Aberdeen University. Over the last 20 years she
has published over 50 scientific articles in psychology and law, and she has
obtained numerous research grant awards. Her expertise is in applied cognitive
and social psychology. She is a fellow of the British
Psychological Society and provides expert advice and training in the
UK.
Jeffrey M. Lohr, Ph.D., is a Professor within the
Department of Psychology at the University of Arkansas. He has
published widely on the PTSD treatments and the pseudo-sciences.
Giuliana Mazzoni , Ph.D. is Senior Reader in Cognitive
Psychology at the University of Plymouth. She is an author of
more than 100 scientific journal articles, books and book chapters, many of
which are on the effects of suggestion on memory. She has been the recipient
of two Fulbright scholarships, and her work has received extensive
media attention.
Dr Jean-Roch Laurence, Ph.D. is a tenured Associate
Professor of Psychology and currently Ph.D. Program Director at the Department
of Psychology, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is
the author of over 100 articles, book chapters, and scientific presentations on
autobiographical memories, pseudo-memories, dissociation and hypnosis. He
published in 1983 the seminal article and experiment demonstrating the
possibility of implanting a pseudo-memory in an unsuspecting
subject. His 1988 book, Hypnosis, will, and memory: A
psycho-legal history, documented the fact that the issue of false memory of
abuse was already noted and discussed at the end of the 19th century.
Elizabeth A. Meadows, Ph.D. is an Associate
Professor within the Department of Psychology, and the Director of the Trauma
and Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Central Michigan University. She
has published important scientific articles on the treatment of PTSD and other
anxiety disorders, including a seminal review of PTSD treatments in the Annual
Review of Psychology.
Ron Acierno, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor
of Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is a clinical
psychologist, with an emphasis on PTSD and Depression in older adults.
He has received funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the
National Institute on Aging, among others. He has published over 60 articles
and book chapters in the field of clinical psychology. He is past
president of the Charleston-area Tri-County Victims Council, and
current board member of the local domestic violence shelter My Sister's House.
Steven E. Clark, Ph.D. is a tenured Associate
Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside.
He is also the Chair of the Faculty Committee on Law and Society at
UC-Riverside, and Chair of the University’s Institutional Review Board,
which oversees the protection of human subjects in research. He is the
author of 25 publications in the areas of cognition, human memory, eyewitness
identification, and mathematical modeling.
Saul Kassin , Ph.D. is the Massachusetts Professor of
Psychology and founder of Legal Studies at Williams College, in Williamstown,
Massachusetts. He is a former U.S. Supreme Court
Judicial Fellow and a visiting professor in the Psychology and Law Program at
Stanford University. He has 107 publications, including several
general textbooks and scholarly books (e.g., Confessions in the
Courtroom, The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure, and The American
Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives). Many of Kassin’s
scientific publications are on the topic of police interrogations and
confessions, including false and internalized confessions and the impact of
this evidence on juries. He has testified as an expert witness in state,
federal, and military courts; lectures frequently to judges, lawyers,
psychologists, and law enforcement groups; has written op-ed articles for the
New York Times and Boston Globe; and has frequently appeared in the national
media.
Richard Shiffrin, Ph.D. is one of the world’s
leading authorities on memory, and is an author of the leading
theories and models of memory phenomena. He has had over 120 publications, has
received continuous federal grants supporting his research on human memory, has
trained many students who have gone on to major research careers in this field,
and among his editing duties has served as Editor of the Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, the leading journal specializing
in publications concerning memory. He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and
the American Philosophical Society. He has received several of the
major awards his field confers, including the Howard Crosby Warren Medal of the
Society of Experimental Psychologists, the
David E, Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Formal Analysis of Human
Cognition, and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the
American Psychological Association.
Michael Toglia, Ph.D. holds the rank of Professor in
the Department Psychology at the State University of New York-Cortland.
Since 2003 he has served as the Executive Director of an international
organization, the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
(SARMAC). He has authored over 50 scientific publications which
include 7 books, most of which are edited volumes devoted to issues on
eyewitness memory. Dr. Toglia’s other editorial experience includes: editor
service for 13 journals, a term as Action Editor for the journal Memory,
a current appointment on the editorial board for SARMAC's official
journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, and reviewer of National Science
Foundation grant proposals. Similarly, he recently completed a
two-year position as a consultant on a NIH grant concerning false memory in
special populations. He has testified and/or consulted in numerous cases
involving the suggestibility of memory. He is a Fulbright Senior
Specialist as well as a Fellow in Division 3 (Experimental), and Division 41
(Psychology and the Law) of the American Psychological Association.
Robert V. Kail, Ph.D. is a Professor of
Psychological Sciences at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
He is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and a member of
the Society for Research in Child Development. He serves as editor of the
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology and editor of Advances in Child
Development and Behavior. He has published over 100 scientific
articles and is the author of The Development of Memory in Children.
J. Don Read, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director
of the Law and Forensic Psychology Program at Simon Fraser University in
Burnaby, Canada. He is a cognitive psychologist with a special
interest in long-term autobiographical memory for a variety of events,
including trauma. He was the most recent North American Editor
for the Applied Cognitive Psychology journal and serves on Editorial
Boards of Law and Human Behavior, and Legal and Criminological Psychology.
He co-edited (with Professor Steve Lindsay) the 1997 volume Recollections
of trauma: Scientific evidence and clinical practice, a volume that
summarizes the international NATO conference in1996 on recollections of
childhood abuse, attended by 100 scientists and practitioners.
Loren Pankratz, Ph.D., served from 1970 to 1995 as a Consultation
Psychologist at the Portland VA Medical Center and was a Professor
in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University
where for ten years he chaired the Promotion and Tenure Committee.
In 1983, he introduced a strategy for the assessment of malingering that became
the gold standard in neuropsychology. In that same year, he coauthored
the first description of factitious posttraumatic stress disorder and, in1989,
a paper that defined and outlined the management of drug-seeking
behavior. He has authored one highly relevant book, Patients who
deceive. He now maintains an independent forensic consulting practice,
writes, and collects books that chronicle the history of deception and harmful
ideas. He is currently a Clinical Professor at OHSU.
Michael A. Persinger, Ph.D., C. Psych., is a Full
Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology, and Biology at Laurentian
University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and is the Coordinator
of the Neuroscience Research Group. He has published over 300 articles
in refereed journals and six books. His research includes the analyses of
anomalous experiences, the experimental replication of these experiences within
the laboratory, and the pursuit of the correlative neuro-mechanisms. His
research has shown how experiences attributed to "memories"
can be easily generated. Other major experimental work involves
understanding the molecular and histological correlates of "mild"
closed head injury. His private practice in Neuropsychology focuses upon the
thorough assessment of individuals who display complex partial epileptic-like
symptoms following mild to moderate brain trauma and who report experiences of
sensed presences as well as "intrusive memories".
Debra Poole, Ph.D. - is a Professor of Psychology at
Central Michigan University. Her research on children's eyewitness
testimony, which has been funded by grants from the National Institutes
of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Skillman foundation, has
appeared in numerous scientific journals. She drafted the
investigative interviewing protocol that is used in Michigan and has worked
with Family Independence Agency and the Prosecuting Attorneys
Association to train investigative interviewers. Her book on
investigative interviewing with Michael Lamb was published by the American
Psychological Association, and she is the author of a forthcoming human
development textbook from Prentice Hall. Debra is a fellow of the American
Psychological Society, and she has received a Governor's award from Family
Independence Agency for public service to the State of Michigan.
Charles A. Weaver, III, Ph. D., has been at Baylor University
since 1989, where he is currently a Professor of Psychology and
Neuroscience. He has published more than 30 scientific articles
and two books, and delivered more than 60 professional and scientific
presentations, primarily in the areas of memory, cognition, and language.
He has served on the editorial boards of five journals, several grant review
panels, and was named Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition in 2000. He has also
consulted on numerous legal cases involving eyewitness testimony in a number of
states, giving expert testimony in both civil and criminal trials on the
reliability of eyewitness memory as well as memory for exceptional and
traumatic events.
Joseph de Rivera, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology and Director
of the Peace Studies Program at Clark University. The author of
numerous works on emotions and their impact on experienced reality, he is the co-editor
of Believed-in Imaginings, and has published a number of articles on
persons who have realized that their purported memories were erroneous.
David S. Holmes, Ph.D., Distinguished Chancellor's Club Professor of
Psychology, University of Kansas. Professor Holmes is the author of
more than 130 articles in scientific journals, the author of a widely used
textbook on abnormal behavior, and is a former Chairman of the Board of
Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association.
Terence W. Campbell, Ph.D. is a clinical and forensic psychologist from
Michigan. Dr. Campbell is a Fellow of the Association for
Psychological Science in recognition of "a distinguished contribution to
psychological science." Dr. Campbell is the author or
co-author of more than 40 articles published in various peer-reviewed
scientific and professional journals. He is also the author or co-author
of five books. His "Cross-Examining Experts in the
Behavioral Sciences" has assisted numerous attorneys to better
understand legitimate science versus junk science in psychology.
Emily Carota Orne is a Senior Research Psychologist of
the Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of
Pennsylvania Medical School. She is Executive Director and Trustee of the
Institute for Experimental Psychiatry Research Foundation and a Director of the
False Memory Syndrome Foundation. She is on the editorial board of
the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.
She has co-authored journal articles on hypnosis, and suggestibility in memory.
John Cannell, MD, is a board certified psychiatrist practicing
at Atascadero State Hospital who has treated thousands of trauma victims. He
has written several articles on recovered memory therapy and has appeared as an
expert witness in dozens of cases of recovered memory therapy, including three
cases rendering multimillion dollar verdicts for victims of recovered memory
therapy
Howard Fishman, M.Ed., M.S.W.,
., is a national
forensic consultant in the areas of child custody, abuse and neglect who has
qualified as an expert witness in thirteen states and in Canada. He has served
as director of continuing medical education at both Massachusetts
Mental Health Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and
The Menninger Clinic. He also served as associate publisher
and senior editor of The Psychiatric Times and has published more than
one hundred articles including a series of peer-reviewed clinical supplements
on best practices in psychopharmacology. A veteran clinician and
educator, his major interests include the protection of children in medical
research settings, the standard of care in the child protection enterprise, and
pseudoscience in the clinic and courtroom.
Dr. Richard A. Leo, Ph.D., J.D., is an Associate
Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Associate Professor of Psychology
and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine and will
soon be joining the University of San Francisco Law School as an Associate
Professor of Law. He is an internationally recognized expert on police
interrogation practices, false confessions, Miranda requirements, and
miscarriages of justice. He has published dozens of articles and
book chapters on these subjects and has received awards for
distinguished research from the American Psychological Association, the
American Academy of Forensic Psychology and the American Society of
Criminology.
Amici Contact Information:
B. Christopher Frueh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Director, Division of Public Psychiatry Department
of Psychiatry Medical University of South Carolina
67 President Street, 4
South
P.O. Box 250861
Charleston, SC 29425
843/789-7967 (tel)
843/792-6889 (fax)
fruehbc@musc.edu
Steven Jay Lynn, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor
Department of Psychology
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY 13902
607/222-6891 (tel)
607/777-4890 (fax)
slynn@binghamton.edu
Peter J. van Koppen, J.D.
Senior Chief Researcher Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law
Enforcement (NSCR)
Professor of Law and Psychology, Departments of Law Maastricht University and
Department of Law Free University Amsterdam
Wassenaarseweg 72
2333 AL Leiden
The Netherlands
31-71-5278527 (tel)
pvankoppen@nscr.nl
John F. Kihlstrom, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
3210 Tolman Hall, MC 1650
Berkeley, CA 94720-1650
510/643-3928 (tel)
510/642-5293 (fax)
jfkihlstrom@berkeley.edu
Gerald M. Rosen, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Seattle Washington
Clinical Professor, University of Washington
205 Eastlake Center
2825 Eastlake Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98102
grosen@u.washington.edu
Sally Satel, M.D.
Resident Scholar
American Enterprise Institute
Washington DC, 20036
202/862-7154 (tel)
Slsatel@aol.com
Maryanne Garry, Ph.D.
Victoria University of Wellington
School of Psychology * Te Kura Maatai Hinengaro
Box 600 Wellington
New Zealand
64-4-463 5769 (tel)
64-4-463-5402 (fax)
maryannegarry@mac.com
Hans F. M. Crombag
Professor Emeritus of Law & Psychology
Faculty of Law, Maastricht University
P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
31-43-388-30-20 (tel)
31-43-388-49-12 (fax)
hans.crombag@metajur.unimaas.nl
David F. Bjorklund, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431
561/297-3367 (tel)
561/297-2160 (tel)
dbjorklu@fau.edu
Phillip W. Esplin, Ed.D.
Forensic Psychologist
4242 N. 56th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85018
602/943-0288 (tel)
phillipesplin@aol.com
James M. Wood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968
915/747-6570 (tel)
915/747-6553 (fax)
jawood@utep.edu
Richard Gist, Ph.D.
Principal Assistant to the Director
Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department
816/784-9242 (tel)
816/784-9230 (fax)
816/989-8741 (pager)
Richard_Gist@kcmo.org
Irving Kirsch, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Social Work
Mary Newman Bldg., Room 307
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus
Plymouth PL4 8AA
UK
44-(0)-1752-232506
irving.kirsch@plymouth.ac.uk
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.
Foundation Professor
Department of Psychology /298
University of Nevada
Reno, NV 89557-0062
775/784-6828 x2005 (tel)
775/784-1126 (fax)
hayes@unr.edu
James D. Herbert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Director of Clinical Training
Department of Psychology
Drexel University
Mail Stop 988
245 N. 15th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192
215/762-1692 (tel)
james.herbert@drexel.edu
Robert W. Montgomery, Ph.D., BCBA
Director, Autism Spectrum Assessment Program
Fellow, Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Georgia State University
P. O. Box 1572
Woodstock, GA 30188
770-591-9552 (tel)
rwmontgomery@mindspring.com
H.L.G.J. Merckelbach
Department of Experimental Psychology
Faculty of Psychology, University of Maastricht
P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht
The Netherlands
43-3881945/43-3881908 (tel)
www.psychology.unimaas.nl/
Base/research/Psychology&law.htm
James Ost, C.Psychol.
Department of Psychology
King Henry Building
King Henry I Street
Portsmouth
Hampshire, UK, PO1 2DY
44 (0) 23 9284 6311 (tel)
james.ost@port.ac.uk
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology,
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
slilien@emory.edu
Marc Sageman, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Coordinator for Law and Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3535 Market Street, 2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
301/208-6772 (tel)
sageman@post.harvard.edu
Grant J. Devilly, Ph.D.
Professorial Fellow
Centre for Neuropsychology
Swinburne University
PO Box 218, Hawthorn
Victoria 3122
Australia
61-3-9214-5920 (tel)
61-3-9214-5230 (fax)
gdevilly@swin.edu.au
Anthony R. Pratkanis, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
peitho@cats.ucsc.edu
Jon D. Elhai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Disaster Mental Health Institute
The University of South Dakota
414 East Clark Street - SDU 114
Vermillion, South Dakota 57069-2390
605/677-6575 (tel)
203/413-6227 (fax)
jelhai@usd.edu
Timothy R. Tumlin, Ph.D.
Clinical & Health Psychologists, Ltd.
100 Tower Drive, Suite 120
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
630/371-1556
trtumlin@aol.com
D. Stephen Lindsay, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 3050 STN CSC
Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P5
Canada
250/721-8593 (tel)
250/472-5014 (fax)
http://web.uvic.ca/psyc/Lindsay/
Peter A. Ornstein, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
CB # 3270, Davie Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270
919/962-4138 (tel)
919/962-2537 (fax)
pao@unc.edu
Susan A. Clancy, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychology
Harvard University and
Visiting Professor
Center Behavioral Sciences & Social Policy
INCAE, Campus Francisco de Sola
Managua, Nicaragua
susan.clancy@incae.edu
John Winston Bush, PhD
207 Berkeley Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217-3801
718/636-5071 (tel)
718/636-5166 (fax)
jwb@alumni.stanford.org
Paul R. Lees-Haley, Ph.D., ABPP
2915 Bob Wallace Avenue
Huntsville, AL 35805
256/551-1024 (tel)
256/551-1036 (fax)
paul@lees-haley.com
Howard D. Eisman, Ph.D.
Director, Psychology and Behavioral Health Coney Island Hospital
Brooklyn, NY
howardeisman@verizon.net
Mark Creamer, Ph.D.
Professor/Director
Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health
University of Melbourne
A&RMC Repat Campus, PO Box 5444,
Heidelberg Heights, VIC 3081
Australia
61-3-9496-4329 (tel)
61-3-9496-2830 (fax)
markcc@unimelb.edu.au
W. Jake Jacobs, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
wjj@u.arizona.edu
Timothy E. Moore, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair, Department of Psychology
Glendon College, York University
2275 Bayview Ave.
Toronto, Ont. M4N 3M6
Canada
416/736-2100 ext 88355
416/487-6851 (fax)
TimMoore@glendon.yorku.ca
Daniel David, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Babes-Bolyai University
President of the International Institute for the Advanced Studies of
Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health
No. 37 Republicii street, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
danieldavid@psychology.ro
00-40-744266300 (tel)
00-40-264595576 (tel)
Maggie Bruck, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins University
600 N, Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287
Mbruck1@jhmi.edu
Amina Memon Ph.D. FBPsS
Professor
School of Psychology
University of Aberdeen
Kings College, Old Aberdeen
Scotland AB24 2UB
44 (0)1224 272230 (tel)
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/psychology/
people/academic/amemon.shtml
Jeffrey M. Lohr, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
216 Memorial Hall
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AK 72701
479/575-5813 (tel)
479/575-3219 (fax)
jlohr@uark.edu
Giuliana Mazzoni, Ph.D.
School of Psychology
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus
Plymouth PL48AA
UK
44-(0)-1752-233168 (tel)
giuliana.mazzoni@plymouth.ac.uk
Jean-Roch Laurence, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Concordia University
7141 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H4B 1R6
514/848-2424 ext 7555 (tel)
514/848-4523 (fax)
jrlaure@alcor.concordia.ca
Elizabeth A. Meadows, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Director, Trauma and Anxiety Disorders Clinic
Central Michigan University
Sloan Hall
Mt Pleasant, MI 48859
elizabeth.a.meadows@yahoo.com
Ron Acierno, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center
Department of Psychiatry
Medical University of South Carolina
165 Cannon Street
Charleston, SC 29425
acierno@musc.edu
Steven E. Clark, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
951/827-5541
steven.clark@ucr.edu
Saul Kassin, Ph.D.
Massachusetts Professor of Psychology
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
M. A. Persinger, Ph.D., C. Psych.
Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory
Depts of Psychology and Biology
Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
Canada P3E 2C6
Tel: (705)-675-4824
Fax: (705)-671-3844
email:mpersinger@laurentian.ca
Richard M. Shiffrin, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Luther Dana Waterman Professor
Director, Cognitive Science Program
Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science
Psychology Department
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
812-855-4972 (tel)
shiffrin@indiana.edu
Michael P. Toglia, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
State University of New York College at Cortland
Cortland, New York 13045
607/753-4222 (tel)
607/753-5738 (fax)
toglia@cortland.edu
Robert V. Kail, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
703 Third Street
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2004
765/494-6921 (tel)
765/496-1264 (fax)
rkail@cla.purdue.edu
J. Don Read, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Law and Forensic Psychology
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6
Canada
604/291-4243 (tel)
604/291-3427 (fax)
jdonread@sfu.ca
Debra Poole
231 Sloan Hall
Central Michigan University
Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
989-774-4349
poole1da@cmich.edu
Charles A. Weaver, III, Ph. D.
Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
Baylor University, Dept. of Psychology & Neuroscience
One Bear Place #97334
Waco, TX 76798
Charles_Weaver@Baylor.edu
(254) 710-2240 (direct)
(254) 710-3033 (fax)
(254) 710-2961 (dept office)
Richard Ofshe, Ph.D.
7112 Marlborough Terrace
Berkeley, CA 94705
510-845-4911
rofshe@aol.com
Joseph de
Rivera
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 10610
jderivera@clarku.edu
508-793-7259 (Tel);
508 793 7265 (FAX)
Emily Carota Orne
Unit for Experimental Psychiatry
1016 Blockley Hall
University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021
215 898 9665 (phone)
215 573 6410 (fax)
eorne@mail.med.upenn.edu
David S. Holmes
Psychology Department
University of Kansas
1415 Jayhawk Blvd
Lawrence, KS 66045
(785) 864-4131
dholmes@ku.edu
Howard Fishman, M.Ed., M.S.W.,
5805 Charles Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19135
215/744-5010 (tel)
253/669-3838 (fax)
HFJustice@aol.com
Henry L. Roediger, III
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor
Dean for Academic Planning in Arts & Sciences
Department of Psychology, Box 1125
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
e-mail: roediger@artsci.wustl.edu
Telephone: 314-935-6567
Fax: 314-935-7588
www.psych.wustl.edu/memory
Loren Pankratz, Ph.D.
1525 SW Palatine St.
Portland, OR 97219
503/452-8949
loren.pankratz@comcast.ne
James Hudson, M.D., Sc.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Biological Psychiatry Laboratory
Director, Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Program
McLean Hospital
115 Mill Street
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel: 617-855-2911
Fax: 617-855-3585
jhudson@mclean.harvard.edu ; jihudson@comcast.net
Richard J. McNally, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
1230 William James Hall
33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617/495-3853 (tel)
617/495-3728 (fax)
rjm@wjh.harvard.edu
Harrison G. Pope, M.D
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Co-Director, Biological Psychiatry Laboratory
McLean Hospital
115 Mill Street
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel: 617-855-2911
pope@mclean.harvard.edu
Richard Leo, Ph.D., J.D.
Department of Criminology, Law and Society
2367 Social Ecology II
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697
(415) 661-0162
Terence W. Campbell, Ph.D.
Clinical and Forensic Psychology
Sterling Heights, MI
e-mail: tcampbell3920@comcast.net
Phone 586-268-3920
Fax 586-268-3963
AARON T. BECK, M.D.
University Professor of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Psychiatry
Room 2032
3535 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3309
PHONE: (215) 898-4102
FAX: (215) 573-3717
E-MAIL: abeck@mail.med.upenn.edu
John Cannell, M.D.
9100 San Gregorio Road
Atascadero, CA 93422
805 468-2061 (work)
805 462-8129 (home office)
805 462-8836 (home fax)
805 239-6110 (numeric pager)
jjcannell@charter.net
JCANNELL@dmhash.state.ca.us
[1] See, e.g. Kumho Tire, Inc. v. Carmichael, 119 S.Ct.1167 (1999); See also, Grove,
W. M. and Barden, R.C. (2000) Protecting the Integrity of the Legal System :
The Admissibility of Testimony from Mental Health Experts Under Daubert/Kumho
Analyses, Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Vol 5, No. 1, 234-242