Publications by authors named "Verena Oberlader"
Degrees of freedom as a breeding ground for biases-A threat to forensic practice.
Law Hum Behav
September 2024
Objective: Researcher-based degrees of freedom have been shown to contribute to low replication rates in science. That is, researchers' options within the process of designing and conducting empirical tests may increase the probability of false positive findings. The aim of this study was to transfer the concept of degrees of freedom to the practice of forensic-psychological assessment as it may likewise pose a severe threat to the reliability and validity of forensic assessments.
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- Researchers created a new experimental method called the cued pro- and antisaccade paradigm (CPAP) to study how sexual interest affects automatic eye movements in response to images.
- In their study with 32 women and 25 men, participants reacted faster and made fewer mistakes when looking at sexually relevant images compared to irrelevant ones, but this effect was mainly observed in male participants.
- The CPAP allows for a deeper understanding of how quickly and automatically people process sexual information, making it a useful tool for investigating both automatic and deliberate responses to sexual stimuli.
Within the scope of judicial decisions, approaches to distinguish between true and fabricated statements have been of particular importance since ancient times. Although methods focusing on "prototypical" deceptive behavior (e.g.
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