Publications
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‘Guilty pleas in children: Legitimacy, vulnerability, and the need for increased protection’
– Rebecca K. Helm
(in Press) Journal of Law and Society
‘Constrained waiver of trial rights? Incentives to plead guilty and the right to a fair trial’
– Rebecca K. Helm
(2019) 46(3) Journal of Law and Society 423
‘Conviction by consent? Vulnerability, autonomy, and conviction by guilty plea’
– Rebecca K. Helm
(2019) 83(2) The Journal of Criminal Law 161
‘Too young to plead? Risk, rationality and plea bargaining’s innocence problem in adolescents’
– Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie F. Reyna, Allison A. Franz, and Rachel Z. Novick
(2018) 24(2) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 180
‘Logical but incompetent plea decisions: A new approach to plea bargaining grounded in cognitive theory’
– Rebecca K. Helm and Valerie F. Reyna
23(3) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 367
‘Regulatory responses to fake news and freedom of expression: Normative and empirical evaluation’
– Rebecca K. Helm and Hitoshi Nasu
(in Press) Human Rights Law Review
‘Improving expert evidence: The role of open science and transparency’
– Jason Chin, Bethany Growns, and David Mellor
(2019) 50(2) Ottawa Law Review 1
‘What do experts know? Calibration, precision, and the wisdom of crowds among forensic handwriting experts’
– Kirsty A. Martire, Bethany Growns, and Danielle Navarro
(2018) 25 Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2346
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Guilty Pleas
‘Guilty pleas in children: Legitimacy, vulnerability, and the need for increased protection’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(in Press) Journal of Law and Society
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‘Constrained waiver of trial rights? Incentives to plead guilty and the right to a fair trial’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2019) 46(3) Journal of Law and Society 423
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‘Conviction by consent? Vulnerability, autonomy, and conviction by guilty plea’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2019) 83(2) The Journal of Criminal Law 161
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‘Too young to plead? Risk, rationality and plea bargaining’s innocence problem in adolescents’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie F. Reyna, Allison A. Franz, and Rachel Z. Novick
(2018) 24(2) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 180
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‘Cognitive theory and plea-bargaining’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2018) 5(2) Policy Insights from the Behavioural and Brain Sciences 195
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‘Logical but incompetent plea decisions: A new approach to plea bargaining grounded in cognitive theory’ – Rebecca K. Helm and Valerie F. Reyna
23(3) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 367
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Juries and Jury Decision Making
‘Numeracy in the jury box: Numerical ability, meaningful anchors, and damage-award decision-making’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie P. Hans, Valerie F. Reyna and Krystia Reed
(2020) 34(2) Applied Cognitive Psychology 434
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‘Procedural roles: Professional judges, lay judges, and lay jurors’ – Rebecca K. Helm and Valerie P. Hans
in Darryl Brown, Jenia Iontcheva Turner and Bettina Weisser (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process (OUP, 2019)
‘From meaning to money: Translating injury into dollars’ – Valerie P. Hans, Rebecca K. Helm, and Valerie F. Reyna
(2018) 42(2) Law and Human Behavior 95
‘Trial by numbers’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie P. Hans and Valerie F. Reyna
(2017) Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 107
‘Unpacking insanity defence standards: An experimental study of rationality and control tests in criminal law’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Stephen J. Ceci, and Kayla A. Burd
8(2) The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context 63
Eyewitness Memory
‘Forensic analysis of child interrogations and testimony’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Caisa E. Royer, and Stephen J. Ceci
in Wendy Koen and C. Michael Bowers (eds.), Psychology and Sociology of Wrongful Convictions (Academic Press, 2018)
‘Can implicit associations distinguish true and false eyewitness memory?’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Stephen J. Ceci, and Kayla A. Burd
(2017) 34(6) Behavioural Sciences & the Law 803
‘Children’s suggestibility research: Things to know before interviewing a child’ – Amelia C. Hritz, Caisa E. Royer, Rebecca K. Helm, Kayla A. Burd, Karen Ojeda, and Stephen J. Ceci
25(1) Anuario de Psicología Jurídica 3
Human Rights
‘Regulatory responses to fake news and freedom of expression: Normative and empirical evaluation’ – Rebecca K. Helm and Hitoshi Nasu
(in Press) Human Rights Law Review
‘Constrained waiver of trial rights? Incentives to plead guilty and the right to a fair trial’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2019) 46(3) Journal of Law and Society423
Arbitration
‘Are arbitrators human?’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Andrew J. Wistrich, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
(2016) 13(4) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 666
Neuroscience and Law
‘Brain activation covaries with reported criminal behaviours when making risky choices: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Approach’ – Valerie F. Reyna, Rebecca K. Helm, Rebecca B. Weldon, Pooja D. Shah, Alexa G. Turpin, and Shravya Govindgari
(2018) 147(7) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 1094
Forensic Science and Expertise
‘Forensic feature-comparison expertise: Better statistical learners have better visual comparison performance after diagnosticity training’ – Bethany Growns and Kirsty A. Martire
(2020) Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
‘Improving expert evidence: The role of open science and transparency’ – Jason Chin, Bethany Growns, and David Mellor
(2019) 50(2) Ottawa Law Review 1
‘Expert decision-making’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Michael McCormick, and Valerie F. Reyna
in Linden Ball and Valerie Thompson (eds.), The International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (Routledge, 2019)
‘What do experts know? Calibration, precision, and the wisdom of crowds among forensic handwriting experts’ – Kirsty A. Martire, Bethany Growns, and Danielle Navarro
(2018) 25 Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2346