Lora M Levett

Biographic Data

ID4127136
NAMELora M Levett
GIVEN NAMESLora M
FAMILY NAMELevett
SIGNATURELEVETT L M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Florida
ORCID0000-0002-8454-8289
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Improving graduate education in legal psychology

    Jason A Cantone, Apryl A Alexander et al.ARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2024

    OBJECTIVE: This article reviews how training programs and professional organizations can work together to better prepare legal psychology graduate students and early career professionals (ECPs) for their first postgraduate careers. METHOD: In 2019, the American Psychology-Law Society released a report exploring the unique needs of ECPs in the field of legal psychology. The surveyed ECPs overwhelmingly highlighted the importance of grappling with …

  • Further action toward valid science in Law and Human Behavior

    Open AccessBradley D Mcauliff, David Dematteo et al.ARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2022

    s new requirements. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

  • The American Psychology–Law Society scientific review paper on the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence

    Open AccessMark Costanzo, Lora M LevettARTICLELaw and Human Behavior2020

    is "Policy and Procedure Recommendations for the Collection and Preservation of Eyewitness Identification Evidence" by Gary Wells and colleagues (2020). This special article is an official Scientific Review Paper (SRP) of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS), Division 41 of the American Psychological Association (APA). This SRP is the product of an extensive, multistep vetting process designed to ensure that it represents the best research…

  • The effects of variations in confession evidence and need for cognition on jurors’ decisions

    Kelsey S Henderson, Lora M LevettARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2020Cited by: 1

    The reliability of a confession partially depends on the interrogation methods used and the confession’s content. Confronting suspects with evidence gives a suspect knowledge of nonpublic details, increasing the likelihood of a false confession (Gudjonsson & Pearse, 2011; Leo, 2009), and makes the confession harder to judge as more or less reliable. That is, if a confession is consistent with case facts but details of the crime were communicated …

  • A novel paradigm for examining alibi corroboration and evidence interaction

    Megan R Kienzle, Lora M LevettARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2018

  • Law and Society

    Open AccessLora M Levett, Adina M ThompsonCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Student Perceptions of Sexual Assault Resources and Prevalence of Rape Myth Attitudes

    Open AccessRebecca Hayes‐smith, Lora M LevettARTICLEFeminist Criminology2010Cited by: 4References: 16

    This study investigated whether students at a large, public university were receiving sexual assault resource information, whether the information was informative, and whether it was successful in dispelling commonly held rape myths. Findings suggest that students may not be receiving sexual assault information even though it was available on campus. If students reported receiving sexual assault information, they did not report much knowledge abo…

  • Psychological mediators of the effects of opposing expert testimony on juror decisions

    Lora M Levett, Margaret Bull KoveraARTICLEPsychology Public Policy and Law2009Cited by: 1

    This study examined the effectiveness of the opposing expert safeguard against unreliable expert testimony and whether beliefs about experts as hired guns and general acceptance mediate the effect of opposing expert testimony on juror decisions. We found strong evidence that the presence, but not the content, of opposing expert testimony affected jurors’ trial judgments and that these effects were mediated by mock jurors’ beliefs about general ac…