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Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP)
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The Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology is based at VU Amsterdam. Posts in English and Dutch by @anneliesvrede.bsky.social and @evanrosmalen.bsky.social

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Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP) @amslablegpsy.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hi BlueSky! We are the Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology: a research lab based at the Criminology department of VU Amsterdam. Our research focuses on topics at the intersection of #law and #psychology, such as eyewitness testimony, memory, interviewing, expert witnesses and more! #PsychLaw
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Looking for paid research experience? Help Gabi de Bruïne with her research on culture and emotional memories! Send your CV and short motivation to g.de.bruine@vu.nl before December 24th!
December 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Gabi de Bruïne is op zoek naar een (recent afgestudeerde) student die haar kan helpen bij het coderen van interviews met Afrikaanse en Europese deelnemers!
💡 Fulltime, onderzoekservaring + vergoeding
📩 Solliciteer vóór 24 dec: g.de.bruine@vu.nl
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Kom bij ons werken als onderzoeksassistent! Nog 5 dagen om te solliciteren (t/m 5 oktober).
October 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Come work with me! I need a part-time research assistant to help me with research articles, presentations, expert witness reports and social media. I need someone with a background in legal psychology, fluent English and Dutch and a healthy dose of enthusiasm :)
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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🚨 Vacature alert! Ben jij op zoek naar een leerzame bijbaan binnen de rechtspsychologie? Solliciteer dan nu op de #vacature Onderzoeksassistent Rechtspsychologie voor 6 oktober!
@anneliesvrede.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social
@vuamsterdam.bsky.social werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/on...
Vacature — Onderzoeksassistent Rechtspsychologie
Heb jij hart voor rechtspsychologisch onderzoek en zin in een leerzame bijbaan? Solliciteer dan nu voor de functie van onderzoeksassistent bij de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)!
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September 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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On the first day of the #EAPL2025 conference in Vilnius, @anneliesvrede.bsky.social presents the recently developed ALLP training on cross-cultural communication for interviewers @vucriminologie.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Excited to share that I've been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant for research on expert witness reports in legal psychology, allowing the fantastic @evanrosmalen.bsky.social to start her PhD @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social! allp.nl/nwo-grant-fo...
NWO grant for research on legal psychological expert witness reports - Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded one of their competitive Open Competition M grants to ALLP director Annelies Vredeveldt, for a project on legal psychological expert witnesses reports. The...
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July 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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🚨 Just published! Our case study on the ICTR reveals how cultural background shapes courtroom communication. Witnesses from non-WEIRD contexts often gave indirect responses, easily misinterpreted as unclear or evasive by legal professionals @anneliesvrede.bsky.social doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...
Cross-cultural communication in the courtroom: a case study of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Emerald Insight
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July 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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New article alert! 🚨 Our field study on South African eyewitness reports shows six main cultural differences, regarding detailedness, confidence, assertiveness and more. Published open-access! @anneliesvrede.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...
June 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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About to start our #SARMAC2025 symposium on eyewitness memory in cross-cultural contexts in the Fountain Suite with @anneliesvrede.bsky.social @gabidb.bsky.social Nkansah Aankwam @lorrainehope.bsky.social and Qi Wang @officialsarmac.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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How do people from different cultures remember and report what they have witnessed? @gabidb.bsky.social explored this question in her PhD research with a cleverly designed cross-cultural experiment. #eyewitness #memory @amslablegpsy.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social allp.nl/the-way-we-r...
The way we remember and report: Cultural differences in eyewitness memory - Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology
How do people from different cultural backgrounds remember and report what they have witnessed? In a newly published open-access article in Memory, Gabi de Bruïne, Annelies Vredeveldt, and Peter J. va...
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May 22, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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🔍 New research on cultural differences in eyewitness memory
By De Bruïne, Vredeveldt & Van Koppen (2025)
We compared how sub-Saharan African and Western European participants recalled the same mock crime video.
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The way we remember and report: an experiment testing cultural differences in eyewitness memory
More and more people report their memories in cross-cultural contexts, including eyewitness interviews. In a pre-registered experiment (N = 64), we examined cultural differences in mock eyewitness ...
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May 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The emeritus Professor in Legal Psychology and the newly minted Professor in Legal Psychology :) @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @anneliesvrede.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Our research on collaborative interviewing is now also featured on the VU website! @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social vu.nl/en/news/2025...
New interrogation technique effective: joint witness interviews - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Put two eyewitnesses of a crime together in an interview, and there’s a good chance they’ll provide relevant new information for a police investigation.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Great to see our field study on the Collaborative Eyewitness Interview featured in Applied Police Briefings!
kirkluther.bsky.social Kirk Luther @kirkluther.bsky.social · Apr 3
#APB spotlight: What happens when 2 eyewitnesses are interviewed together - after they've already been interviewed alone? Research by @evanrosmalen.bsky.social &
@anneliesvrede.bsky.social explores the power of collaborative eyewitness interviews.
Read the brief 👉 appliedpolicebriefings.com (1/4)
April 8, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Great to see this important work led by @evanrosmalen.bsky.social @amslablegpsy.bsky.social featured in Applied Police Briefings!
kirkluther.bsky.social Kirk Luther @kirkluther.bsky.social · Apr 3
#APB spotlight: What happens when 2 eyewitnesses are interviewed together - after they've already been interviewed alone? Research by @evanrosmalen.bsky.social &
@anneliesvrede.bsky.social explores the power of collaborative eyewitness interviews.
Read the brief 👉 appliedpolicebriefings.com (1/4)
April 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Want to know what it's like being interviewed as a witness? Participate in this study on witness interviewing in Amsterdam! @nscr-instituut.bsky.social #PsychLaw
March 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Historic moment! Previous Prof Peter van Koppen and newly appointed Prof @anneliesvrede.bsky.social talk together about the history and future of legal psychology at the VU @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social #PsychLaw
March 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Ben jij gepassioneerd over criminologie en heb jij de ambitie om wetenschappelijk onderwijs te geven? Solliciteer dan nu bij @vuamsterdam.bsky.social naar de vacature van Docent Criminologie! @vucriminologie.bsky.social #JobAlert werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/do...
Vacature — Docent Criminologie
Ben jij gepassioneerd over de Criminologie en heb jij de ambitie om wetenschappelijk onderwijs te geven? Solliciteer dan bij de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) naar de vacature van Docent Criminolog...
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March 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Our director @anneliesvrede.bsky.social has been appointed Full Professor in Legal Psychology @vuamsterdam.bsky.social! Please save the date for her inaugural lecture on the 13th of November 2025. allp.nl/annelies-vre...
Annelies Vredeveldt appointed Professor of Legal Psychology - Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology
We are happy to announce that our Director, Annelies Vredeveldt, has been appointed Full Professor of Legal Psychology at VU Amsterdam from the 1st of March 2025. She was selected for the prestigious ...
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March 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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This month's Lies & Allies lineup on March 4th, 4-5pm UK time: emotions in false allegations, the nature of honesty (@charactergap.bsky.social), and predicting suspicion in emergency service calls. To join us, email info@deceptionresearchsociety.org
February 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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A list of top researchers in criminal psychology, criminology, police investigations, forensic psychiatry & other crime-related areas.

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November 15, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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Again we want to promote the online talk by Prof. Richard J. McNally! Just two days to wait. It‘s on Thursday, Feb 27 at 3 pm CET (2 pm UK time)x the Talk is on 'Trauma, Memory, and the Law'. Please save the date for this not-to-be-missed event! Please retweet.
February 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Have you ever witnessed a crime while under influence of #cannabis? Your experience could help advance #research on psychological processes in crime-related contexts! Sign up for this online study here: lnkd.in/ehZ_JuBB
February 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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How could AI be used to assess eyewitness identification accuracy? Andrew Smith, @nydia-ayala.bsky.social and @rying.bsky.social discuss three ways AI could prove useful! @officialsarmac.bsky.social #PsychLaw psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
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February 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM