Research unit for Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology (CLIP)

CLIP (Criminal, Legal and Investigative Psychology) is a research unit within the area of forensic psychology. CLIP was established in 2000 and is situated at the Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

What's on?

Open seminar

February 2nd
Time: 13.00 - 14.30
Location: F5

Professor Arnaud D'Argembeau, University of Liege, Belgium
"Autobiographical memory and future thinking".

More about Prof. D'Argembeau here

Seminar

February 3rd
Time. 10.00 - 12.00
Location: F6

PhD Candidate Melanie Knieps will defend her licentiate thesis entitled:
"True and false intentions: Can the concept of ´episodic future thoughts´ help to discriminate?"
Opponents: Professor Arnaud D'Argembeau , Department of Psychology, University of Liège, and junior opponent Marcus Praetorius, University of Gothenburg

Welcome!

Research evaluation for development of research 2010 (RED10)

The quality of CLIP’s research was rated as “excellent to outstanding”, and the research team as being "very productive and conduct research which has a high international impact and is innovative in nature”.
Read more here

Best Poster Award

CLIP member Helen Alfredsson won the poster award, first place, ($250) at the joint AP-LS/EAPL/ANZAPPL conference in Miami, Florida, with her poster titled: "Perpetrator characteristics, participants' gender and belief in a just world influencing rape blame attributions."
The award was presented by the EAPL Student Society. Congratulations!

Special Issue on Psychology and Law

Current Directions in Psychological Science 20:4, 2011

This issue of Current Directions presents the latest research on topics such as: police investigations, eyewitness memory, suspect confessions, risk assessment, selecting jurors, psychologists as expert witnesses, jury decision making, and judicial decision making. Read it here!

New book on legal psychology

Academics and researchers from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland) have made a particularly strong contribution internationally to the rapidly developing disciplines of forensic and legal psychology. This book brings together the leading authorities in the field to look systematically at the central issues and concerns of their subject, looking at both investigative psychology and psychology in court.