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Jeff Kukucka
Researcher at Towson University
Publications - 36
Citations - 1019
Jeff Kukucka is an academic researcher from Towson University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Confirmation bias & Confession. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 36 publications receiving 768 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeff Kukucka include The Graduate Center, CUNY & John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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The forensic confirmation bias: Problems, perspectives, and proposed solutions.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe classic psychological research on primacy, expectancy effects, and observer effects, all of which indicate that context can taint people's perceptions, judgments, and behaviors.
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Cognitive Bias and Blindness: A Global Survey of Forensic Science Examiners
TL;DR: The authors found that forensic examiners regarded their judgments as nearly infallible and showed only a limited understanding and appreciation of cognitive bias, and they believed they are immune to bias or can reduce bias through mere willpower and fewer than half supported blind testing.
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Do confessions taint perceptions of handwriting evidence? An empirical test of the forensic confirmation bias.
Jeff Kukucka,Saul M. Kassin +1 more
TL;DR: The hypothesis that knowing that a defendant had confessed would taint people's evaluations of handwriting evidence relative to those not so informed was tested, and the value of insulating forensic examiners from contextual information was suggested.
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Cognitive bias in forensic mental health assessment: Evaluator beliefs about its nature and scope.
TL;DR: Kukucka et al. as mentioned in this paper surveyed 1,099 mental health professionals who conduct forensic evaluations for the courts or other tribunals and compared these results with a companion survey of 403 forensic examiners.
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Cognitive bias in forensic pathology decisions.
Itiel E. Dror,Judy Melinek,Jonathan L. Arden,Jeff Kukucka,Sarah Hawkins,Joye Carter,Daniel S. Atherton +6 more
TL;DR: Examination of death certificates issued during a 10-year period in the State of Nevada for children under the age of six and an experiment with 133 forensic pathologists demonstrate how extraneous information can result in cognitive bias in forensic pathology decision-making.