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James Michael Wood    
Dr. James Michael Wood
   
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Ph.D., University of Arizona (1990)

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Child and Adult Suggestibility Lab
   
Research Interests    

Suggestibility of children and adults in forensic interviews; effects of reinforcement on suggestibility; professional and institutional decision-making in child abuse cases and forensic evaluations; effects of using between-language interpreters in forensic interviews and interrogatories; use of the Rorschach Inkblot test and other projective tests in forensic and non-forensic assessment.

   
Sample Publications    

Billings, F. J., Taylor, T., Burns, J., Corey, D. L., Garven, S., & Wood, J. M. (in press).  Can reinforcement induce children to falsely incriminate themselves? Law and Human Behavior.

 

Schreiber, N., Bellah, L. D., Martinez, Y., McLaurin, K. A., Strok, R., Garven, S., & Wood, J. M. (2006).  Suggestive interviewing in the McMartin Preschool and Kelly Michaels daycare abuse cases: A case study.  Social Influence, 1, 16-47.

 

Garven, S., Wood, J. M., & Malpass, R. S. (2000).  Allegations of wrongdoing: The effects of reinforcement on children's mundane and fantastic claims.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 85, 38-49.

 

Wood, J. M., Nezworski, M. T., Lilienfeld, S.O., & Garb, H. N. (2003).  What’s wrong with the Rorschach?  Science confronts the controversial inkblot test.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Wood, J. M., Nezworski, M. T., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Garb, H. N. (2003).  The Rorschach Inkblot Test, fortune tellers, and cold reading.  Skeptical Inquirer, 27(4), 29-33, 61.
   
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203D Psychology Building
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso TX, 79968
   
Courses    

Intro to Abnormal Psychology

Seminar in Psychopathology

Psychometrics

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