Media Psychology Program Director Brian Cutler Contributes to The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law

Psychology-law is a very diverse field that covers a wide range of topics from both experimental psychology and applied psychology. These broad areas are in turn made up of many subspecialties. However, despite the continued and rapid growth of the psychology-law field, there was no current comprehensive resource that provided coverage of the major topic areas until the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law.

The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law offers a current, scholarly overview of psychology-law topics. The book’s principal editors, Dr. David DeMatteo, JD, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic), a Professor of Psychology and Professor of Law at Drexel University, and Dr. Kyle C. Scherr, Ph.D., a Professor of Psychology at Central Michigan University, brought together a distinguished list of psychology and law experts to contribute to the impressive volume of work. The book is divided into three main sections: foundational psychology-law, applied psychology-law, and experimental-psychology-law. The Foundational Psychology-Law section includes chapters that are relevant to both applied psychology and experimental psychology, making a unique contribution that ties together the applied and experimental aspects of the field.

Included in the Foundational Psychology-Law section is the chapter on “Expert Psychological Testimony” by Fielding’s Media Psychology Program Director Brian Cutler and his co-author Dr. Daniel Krauss, a professor in psychology at Claremont McKenna College. Drs. Cutler and Krauss review the topics on which psychologists offer expert testimony, the laws and legal procedures governing the admissibility of expert testimony, the forms that expert testimony may take, the need for expert testimony, bias among experts, the effect of expert testimony on jury decisions, and the ethical guidelines for expert testimony.

To learn more about the book or purchase a copy, please go to the Oxford University Press web site.

About Program Director Brian Cutler

Brian Cutler, Ph.D.

Professor Cutler’s experience includes more than 30 years of faculty experience and 19 years of academic administration at two US and one Canadian university. Trained in social and forensic psychology, his media psychology-related research has examined pretrial publicity, recorded criminal interrogations, and person recognition from surveillance photos and videos. He has been the author or co-author of research grants, books, book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and articles in professional associations. At his previous universities, he taught a wide range of psychology courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and supervised numerous master’s theses and doctoral dissertations.

To learn about the Media Psychology Ph.D., master’s, and certificate programs, please visit the Media Psychology home page.