The UC Irvine Center for Psychology & Law presents this Winter 2026 event with Kyle C. Scherr, a Central Michigan University psychology professor, whose research uses basic social and cognitive psychological theories to understand applied outcomes. Much of this research focuses on issues at the intersection of psychology and law.
One area examines the social cognitive underpinnings of suspect decision-making during police interrogations and the stigma associated with innocent individuals who falsely confess. Another area focuses on wrongful convictions and the social cognitive factors associated with decisions and judgments influencing the process leading to exoneration and the stigma and general experience of innocent individuals once released and exonerated. A third area focuses on social cognitive factors that can bias forensic evidence gathering and analysis.
This event features a happy hour from 5-6 p.m., followed by Dr. Scherr's lecture from 6-7 p.m.
