Psychology 2043A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: List Of Fallacies, Emotional Contagion, Confirmation Bias

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2043A/B
• Professor: Esther Goldberg

Document Summary

The criminal proiling illusion: what"s behind the smoke and mirrors? . Criminal proiling = pracice of predicing a criminal"s personality, behavioural, and demographic characterisics based on crime scene evidence. Used worldwide regardless of the fact that there is no empirical evidence that suggests that it is valid/useful. Construcing a proile involves three stages: crime scene data is collected and forwarded to a proiler, proiler begins to make predicions based on the evidence at the scene of the crime, findings are reported to the invesigaing oicers. Two broad approaches clinical or staisical orientaion. Clinical orientaion predicions are derived from proilers" training, knowledge, experience and intuiion. Staisical orientaion predicions are derived from an analysis of ofenders who have commited similar crimes. Use of cp has increased signiicantly up to 1000 invesigaions per year by fbi. The lack of a scieniic basis to criminal proiling.