Tess Neal
@tessneal.bsky.social
Dean's Associate Prof. Scholar of Expertise. #OpenScience. Editor-in-Chief @Psychology, Public Policy & Law. #Fulbright. Views mine. https://psych-law.lab.asu.edu/
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Tess Neal
@tessneal.bsky.social
· Apr 14
We are excited about our latest paper published in Nature Reviews Psychology:
Psychological Insights for Judging Expertise and Implications for Adversarial Legal Contexts
Read & share here: rdcu.be/edUCO
@jasonchin.bsky.social @berengut.bsky.social #Law #Psychology #Expertise #Expert #psychscisky
Psychological Insights for Judging Expertise and Implications for Adversarial Legal Contexts
Read & share here: rdcu.be/edUCO
@jasonchin.bsky.social @berengut.bsky.social #Law #Psychology #Expertise #Expert #psychscisky
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Run for Something
Anything. People should run for school boards and city councils.
And some real people should be looking at primarying some senators.
Anything. People should run for school boards and city councils.
And some real people should be looking at primarying some senators.
Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net
Run for Something
Find offices you can run for
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November 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Run for Something
Anything. People should run for school boards and city councils.
And some real people should be looking at primarying some senators.
Anything. People should run for school boards and city councils.
And some real people should be looking at primarying some senators.
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My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My reviewing style has changed over time. Rather than litigate every little thing, and pushing my own ideas, I focus only on 2 things:
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
(1) Are the claims interesting/important?
(2) Does the evidence support the claims?
Most of my reviews these days are short and focused.
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My experience is that many treat therapy like a restaurant, where one orders the experience to their taste. This includes self diagnosis. This study is an attempt to develop a model around this theme.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Mental Illness Self-Labeling Model: A Conceptual Model for Studying the Effects of Mental-Illness Self-Labeling on Clinical Outcomes - Isaac L. Ahuvia, Bruce G. Link, 2025
Self-labeling with a mental illness, for example, deciding that one “has depression,” has the potential to affect clinical outcomes through multiple cognitive a...
journals.sagepub.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My experience is that many treat therapy like a restaurant, where one orders the experience to their taste. This includes self diagnosis. This study is an attempt to develop a model around this theme.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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As the number of exonerations increase, the importance of applying science-based practices becomes clear. While customary practices were developed that produced confessions, they also produced false confessions. The idea that they produce results is no longer enough - they must be accurate results.
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
As the number of exonerations increase, the importance of applying science-based practices becomes clear. While customary practices were developed that produced confessions, they also produced false confessions. The idea that they produce results is no longer enough - they must be accurate results.
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Collaborative news curation as a service, demonstrating the value of social media based on protocols, not platforms and a “playbook for killing information voids.”
On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!
About The Other Night...
How Graze is defining the next era of a decentralized, open social attention economy.
graze.leaflet.pub
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Collaborative news curation as a service, demonstrating the value of social media based on protocols, not platforms and a “playbook for killing information voids.”
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I'm always impressed by how seriously jurors take their charge. Every time you get a peek into the black box, you see things that reveal that they understand the gravity of their choices.
'Sandwich Guy' jury note and verdict form: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'm always impressed by how seriously jurors take their charge. Every time you get a peek into the black box, you see things that reveal that they understand the gravity of their choices.
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Just generally I wish there was more enforcement around scams and fraud. Maybe it’s a drop in the bucket, but enforcing the laws that protect our most vulnerable Americans from financial ruin seems like it’s always a good idea.
"Every six months, Meta earns $3.5 billion from just the portion of scam ads that 'present higher legal risk,' the [Meta] document says, such as those falsely claiming to represent a consumer brand...That figure almost certainly exceeds 'the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads.'”
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Just generally I wish there was more enforcement around scams and fraud. Maybe it’s a drop in the bucket, but enforcing the laws that protect our most vulnerable Americans from financial ruin seems like it’s always a good idea.
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"Criminogenic Risk Factors Among Immigrants in the U.S.–México Border Region," recently published in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law and selected as noteworthy by the Editor. Free-to-read: https://bit.ly/3L6smZR
#Immigration @enolouden.bsky.social @pppl-journal.bsky.social
#Immigration @enolouden.bsky.social @pppl-journal.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Criminogenic Risk Factors Among Immigrants in the U.S.–México Border Region," recently published in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law and selected as noteworthy by the Editor. Free-to-read: https://bit.ly/3L6smZR
#Immigration @enolouden.bsky.social @pppl-journal.bsky.social
#Immigration @enolouden.bsky.social @pppl-journal.bsky.social
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In case you missed it — "Criminogenic Risk Factors Among Immigrants in the U.S.–México Border Region" is now free to read: bit.ly/3L6smZR
@apajournals.bsky.social
#psychlaw #lawpsych #psychology #law
@apajournals.bsky.social
#psychlaw #lawpsych #psychology #law
Policies limiting immigration are often justified based on the idea that immigrants are more prone to violence. The evidence says otherwise.
New research finds that immigrants in custody show lower criminogenic risk than U.S.-born citizens.
Read here: doi.org/10.1037/law0...
#psychlaw #lawpsych
New research finds that immigrants in custody show lower criminogenic risk than U.S.-born citizens.
Read here: doi.org/10.1037/law0...
#psychlaw #lawpsych
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In case you missed it — "Criminogenic Risk Factors Among Immigrants in the U.S.–México Border Region" is now free to read: bit.ly/3L6smZR
@apajournals.bsky.social
#psychlaw #lawpsych #psychology #law
@apajournals.bsky.social
#psychlaw #lawpsych #psychology #law
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HUGE: Nearly 3000 people have signed up with @runforsomething.net to run for office since Tuesday night. runforwhat.net
Run for Something
Find offices you can run for
runforwhat.net
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
HUGE: Nearly 3000 people have signed up with @runforsomething.net to run for office since Tuesday night. runforwhat.net
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This is appalling. There has to be a way to hold massive companies accountable for *knowingly* facilitating & profiting from criminal behavior. And yes, I understand the value of Section 230, but here we have a trillion $ company that profits by letting its users get scammed. Has to be a better way.
Over the years I have read A LOT of damning stories about what Meta executives were saying internally about serious harms on their platforms (most of them written by Reuters’ @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social ). His new story is a blockbuster:
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
sherwood.news/tech/meta-pr...
Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams and banned goods, Reuters reports
The report shows that the company was hesitant to crack down harder on scams, due to the billions in revenue that they were generating for Meta....
sherwood.news
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is appalling. There has to be a way to hold massive companies accountable for *knowingly* facilitating & profiting from criminal behavior. And yes, I understand the value of Section 230, but here we have a trillion $ company that profits by letting its users get scammed. Has to be a better way.
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@unmhsc.bsky.social's Randy Otto & Dave DeMatteo address contemporary issues in forensic psych. Covers language, ethical inconsistencies w/ general clinical guidelines, transparency vs. test security, & several practices yet to be standardized (if they should). psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
@unmhsc.bsky.social's Randy Otto & Dave DeMatteo address contemporary issues in forensic psych. Covers language, ethical inconsistencies w/ general clinical guidelines, transparency vs. test security, & several practices yet to be standardized (if they should). psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
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Small concussions add up.
The data from football players has made that clear.
New concerns about soldiers raise similar concerns. This from The NY Times measures the pressure at a shooting range (which may magnify effects from blast echoes).
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The data from football players has made that clear.
New concerns about soldiers raise similar concerns. This from The NY Times measures the pressure at a shooting range (which may magnify effects from blast echoes).
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Gun Blasts From Indoor Shooting May Cause Brain Injuries
The Times tested the blast waves of several popular civilian guns at an indoor range and found that repeated firing could add up to potentially harmful exposure.
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Small concussions add up.
The data from football players has made that clear.
New concerns about soldiers raise similar concerns. This from The NY Times measures the pressure at a shooting range (which may magnify effects from blast echoes).
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The data from football players has made that clear.
New concerns about soldiers raise similar concerns. This from The NY Times measures the pressure at a shooting range (which may magnify effects from blast echoes).
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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A Tennessee appeals court had upheld a shaken baby conviction, despite pleas to overturn by the DA’s office and a recantation by the medical examiner who testified for the prosecution.
apple.news/ATQRcd8WjTlW...
apple.news/ATQRcd8WjTlW...
Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony — ProPublica
Dissenting from the court’s majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner’s reversal “calls into doubt the foundation of the trial.”
apple.news
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A Tennessee appeals court had upheld a shaken baby conviction, despite pleas to overturn by the DA’s office and a recantation by the medical examiner who testified for the prosecution.
apple.news/ATQRcd8WjTlW...
apple.news/ATQRcd8WjTlW...
She’s describing conditions for motivated reasoning.
I was looking up a case almost no one paid attention to this summer, and I encountered this heck of a footnote from Ketanji Brown Jackson aimed at the six conservative justices.
(Justice Sotomayor, who joined part of her dissent, didn't join the footnote.)
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
(Justice Sotomayor, who joined part of her dissent, didn't join the footnote.)
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![Screenshot of Footnote 12 from Stanley v. City of Stanford, Florida:
The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jech7rem6vijss4euf4fijao/bafkreicaiihpgp3kfw7bkg3dfoekuvbi27petgdlrvserzfznkam2ctdyy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
She’s describing conditions for motivated reasoning.
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Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
Fall 2025 photos of the Clinical and Legal Judgment Lab. We had fun with the beautiful leaves. Photos taken outside Lagomarcino Hall on the Iowa State University campus.
#CLJlab #Psychology #science #mentoring #law #LawPsych #PsychLaw
#CLJlab #Psychology #science #mentoring #law #LawPsych #PsychLaw
October 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Fall 2025 photos of the Clinical and Legal Judgment Lab. We had fun with the beautiful leaves. Photos taken outside Lagomarcino Hall on the Iowa State University campus.
#CLJlab #Psychology #science #mentoring #law #LawPsych #PsychLaw
#CLJlab #Psychology #science #mentoring #law #LawPsych #PsychLaw
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📢 Seeking an expert in #psychopathy for my Psychology & Law class at York University! Looking for a guest speaker to discuss research and real-world applications in forensic settings. Interested or know someone? Please DM me! #ForensicPsych #AcademicTwitter
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
📢 Seeking an expert in #psychopathy for my Psychology & Law class at York University! Looking for a guest speaker to discuss research and real-world applications in forensic settings. Interested or know someone? Please DM me! #ForensicPsych #AcademicTwitter
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Is face recognition a reliable enough tool for making decisions on who to deport (or who to put in a lineup or who to charge with a crime).
No.
Simple and clear answer. Too many near misses that appear reasonable. One of our six claims.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
No.
Simple and clear answer. Too many near misses that appear reasonable. One of our six claims.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Is face recognition a reliable enough tool for making decisions on who to deport (or who to put in a lineup or who to charge with a crime).
No.
Simple and clear answer. Too many near misses that appear reasonable. One of our six claims.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
No.
Simple and clear answer. Too many near misses that appear reasonable. One of our six claims.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🤔Ever wondered what goes into creating and submitting a successful special issue at the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology? Join a Free-Form Friday session with JESP editors to learn more!
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October 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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📆November 7, 2-3 PM ET
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This is next level authoritarianism.👇
"Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."
"Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."
DOJ Scrubs Jan. 6 Attack From Court Record After Suspending Career Prosecutors
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is next level authoritarianism.👇
"Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."
"Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."
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Herbert Simon on the internet and attention, 1996
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Herbert Simon on the internet and attention, 1996
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New from me:
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Accusing Jordan Silverman
A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.
radleybalko.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New from me:
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.
This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.
Reposted by Tess Neal
Machine learning can detect patterns—but can it detect deception?
A newly published replication of a landmark study on linguistic cues in 911 homicide calls suggests the answer is "no".... at least, not reliably.
🔗 Read the full article: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#psychlaw #lawpsych
A newly published replication of a landmark study on linguistic cues in 911 homicide calls suggests the answer is "no".... at least, not reliably.
🔗 Read the full article: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#psychlaw #lawpsych
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Machine learning can detect patterns—but can it detect deception?
A newly published replication of a landmark study on linguistic cues in 911 homicide calls suggests the answer is "no".... at least, not reliably.
🔗 Read the full article: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#psychlaw #lawpsych
A newly published replication of a landmark study on linguistic cues in 911 homicide calls suggests the answer is "no".... at least, not reliably.
🔗 Read the full article: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
#psychlaw #lawpsych
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This has been around since March, but I was just made aware of the Lawyer Support Project, a venture by the Association of American Law Schools to aid attorneys who are targeted by this administration.
www.aals.org/lawyer-suppo...
www.aals.org/lawyer-suppo...
Lawyer Support Project | Association of American Law Schools
On March 22, 2025, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum entitled “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court”, which instructs the U.S. Department of Justice to seek profe...
www.aals.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This has been around since March, but I was just made aware of the Lawyer Support Project, a venture by the Association of American Law Schools to aid attorneys who are targeted by this administration.
www.aals.org/lawyer-suppo...
www.aals.org/lawyer-suppo...