Saul Kassin
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Saul Kassin has participated in contributing to many books which have helped to explain different aspects in the field of psychology. He graduated as an undergrad from Brooklyn College and went on to receive his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology from the University of Connecticut. With his doctoral degree he went on to teach at the University of Kansas for one year and Purdue for two years. A young man born and raised in New York City, he went on to create insightful developments among research involving social perception and influence, and their applications to police interrogations and confessions, eyewitness testimony, jury decision-making, and other aspects of law. In 1984, Kassin was awarded the U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Fellowship and in 1985, went on to work at Stanford University in their Psychology and Law Program. Kassin went on to author texts used among colleges today such as Developmental Social Psychology, The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure, and The American Jury on Trial and co-authored the text Social Psychology with Dr. Steven Fein and Dr. Hazel Rose Markus. Dr. Kassin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. In 2007, he received a Presidential Citation Award from the American Psychological Association for his work on false confessions and is currently President-Elect of Division 41 of APA (The American Psychology-Law Society). He continues to research and lecture to judges, lawyers, and many other high interest groups on his interests of social psychology and its application to the law. Today, he is a Professor of Psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
