Experts share insights into the factors behind racial bias during police encounters. More
Experts share insights into the factors behind racial bias during police encounters. More
The way the Minneapolis Police first described George Floyd’s murder — “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction” — didn’t mention that an officer held his knee on George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes. It did mention that Floyd physically resisted officers, a detail which former officer Derek Chauvin’s More
On May 21, APS convened a panel of experts on policing and racism. Here is a video and transcript of that event. More
Focusing our attention on faces exhibiting more extreme emotions can lead us to overestimate a crowd’s emotional state. More
How good are we at reading crowds’ emotions? Research indicates that individuals tend to focus their attention on the faces that exhibit the most extreme emotions, leading them to overestimate the crowd’s actual emotional state. These findings have implications for public speaking as well as for controlling crowd demonstrations. More
Author/APS Member: Saul Kassin Most Americans don’t know this, but police officers in the United States are permitted by law to outright lie about evidence to suspects they interrogate in pursuit of a confession. Of all forms of subterfuge they deploy — like feigning sympathy and suggesting that a suspect’s More