Saul Kassin
Professor of Psychology
Chair of Legal Studies

Saul Kassin is Professor of Psychology and Chair of Legal Studies at Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 1978, he received his Ph.D. in personality and social psychology at the University of Connecticut. In 1984, he was awarded a United States Supreme Court Judicial Fellowship, and spent the year at the Federal Judicial Center. In 1985 he was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor in the Psychology and Law Program at Stanford University.

Dr. Kassin is author of the best-selling textbook Psychology 4e (Prentice Hall) and the new Essentials of Psychology (Prentice Hall), and is co-author of Social Psychology 6e (Houghton Mifflin). He wrote the Psychology & Social Psychology entries for Microsoft's Encyclopedia, Encarta 2000. He has also co-authored or edited a number of scholarly books, including: Confessions in the Courtroom, The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure, The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives, and Developmental Social Psychology.

Dr. Kassin has published research articles on police interviewing, interrogation, and the elicitation of confessions, and on the psychology of eyewitness identifications and testimony. He has also studied the impact of these and other types of evidence on jurors and jury decision-making. Dr. Kassin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served on the editorial board of Law and Human Behavior since 1986. He lectures frequently to judges, lawyers, psychologists, and law enforcement groups, and has worked as a consultant and expert witness in federal, military, and state courts.

1/03, Court TV, Both Sides, with Rikki Klieman, on the interrogation of children.
12/02, PBS, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, interview on false confessions
12/02, National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation, on false confessions
12/02, ABC Nightline, "The verdict," on the Central Park jogger case.
11/02, New York Times, Op-ed article, "False confessions and the jogger case"
10/02, MSNBC, Nachman, on eyewitness testimony in the D.C. sniper investigation
10/02, NPR, Morning Edition, on the confessions in the Central Park jogger case
9/02, ABC Prime Time Live, on DNA exonerations in the Central Park Jogger case
4/02, Massachusetts School of Law, MSL TV show, on eyewitness identifications
4/02, Massachusetts School of Law, MSL TV show, on police interrogations.
3/01, The Learning Channel, False Memories, segment on false confessions
4/99, National Public Radio, The Law Show, interview on interrogations on confessions
4/96, The Oprah Winfrey Show, on conformity pressures in jury deliberations
4/94, The Joan Rivers Show, on jury verdicts in high profile cases
10/90, 12/90, & 3/91, National Public Radio, The Law Show, on juries

For a full curriculum vita, email Prof. Kassin.