"While we breathe, we will hope." When President Barack Obama took office earlier this year, many were suggesting that the new president would put words like this behind him as he turned to the hard-nosed issues of policy making. "You campaign in poetry and you govern in prose," they say. But...

Watch the full presentation with speaker footage and slides. Dr. Phoebe Ellsworth, professor of law and psychology at the University of Michigan, discusses confirmation bias as a source of false convictions in this colloquium sponsored by the Department of Human Development and others.

Watch the full presentation with speaker footage and slides. Human Development professor Charles Brainerd highlights the pervasive use of memory reports as legal evidence, the common assumptions juries make, and related research findings.