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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a new paper in Psychological Science, researchers from the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School demonstrate how artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the accuracy of the criminal adjudication process. The paper, "Assessing Verbal Eyewitness…

Nydia Ayala, left, and Andrew Smith in Psychology have developed a revised method for an eyewitness lineup. Credit: Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University Iowa State researchers have developed a new procedure to capture more information from eyewitnesses during police investigations and better detect a suspect's guilt or innocence. …

What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of forest fires, and public health professionals trying to predict enrolment in health insurance exchanges have in common? They all rely on analysing data from Twitter.Twitter is a microblogging service, meaning it's designed for sharing posts of short segments of text and embedded audio and video clips. The ease with which people can share information among…

East Lansing (US), November 19 What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher who tracks the spread of forest fires, and public health professionals trying to predict enrollment in health insurance exchanges have in common? They all rely on analysing data from Twitter. Twitter is a microblogging service, meaning it’s designed for sharing posts of short segments of text and…

Credit: Chart: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Lamb et al. (2009). Use of a structured investigative protocol enhances the quality of investigative interviews with alleged victims of child sexual abuse in Britain. Applied Cognitive Psychology: The Official Journal of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 23(4), 449-467 Eyewitness memory has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years, as organizations…