Margaret received a B.A. in psychology from Northwestern University and a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to John Jay, she taught at Reed College and at Florida International University, where she was Director of the Legal Psychology Ph.D. program. For over a decade, Margaret has had continuous funding from the National Science Foundation for her research on jury decision-making and eyewitness identification. Her recent research has examined how legal decision-makers evaluate scientific evidence, the effects of voir dire and jury selection on jury decisions, and the effects of double-blind lineups on the reliability of eyewitness identifications. Her research has been published in Law and Human Behavior, Psychology, Public Policy, and Law; Behavioral Sciences and the Law; Applied Cognitive Psychology, and the Journal of Applied Psychology, among other journals. Margaret is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS), and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). She received the 2000 Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Achievement in Psychology and Law from AP-LS and the Academy of Forensic Psychology and the 2004 APLS Outstanding Teacher and Mentor in Psychology and Law Award. She is a Past-President of AP-LS, current Secretary/Treasurer of SPSSI, and Associate Editor of the journal, Law and Human Behavior.
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