Class Testimonial evidence and non-legal reasons for the decision

The Psychology of Testimony, erroneously represented by psychologists as an area situated only in basic processes, is of the utmost importance for psychologists and, very particularly, for criminologists, focusing not only on those processes, but on forensic dynamics and grammar and judicial. The UC Non-Legal Motivations of the Decision and Testimonial Evidence is located at the intersection of psychocriminal and legal, requiring education with a very strong practical basis and with personal and direct knowledge of dynamics of judgment and the motivational framework of judges.

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Psychology of Testimony: notion, historical roots, scope. Contribution of Psychology in the evaluation of testimony. Credibility and reliability. Nature of testimonial evidence. Judicial truth, material truth and lies. Basic psychological processes. Memory in testimony: stages and types. False memories and implanted memories. Identification and recognition of people. Variables: to be estimated and of the system. Interrogation techniques. Familiar faces: reasons. The mechanism of unconscious transference. Robot portrait: with and without the participation of the deponent. Children's testimony. Discursivities: verbal and non-verbal communication. Speech range and intradiscourse. Statement analysis: methods and techniques. Practical importance. Formation of the decision-making process: the cognitive path designed by the judge. Psychology of Non-Legal Motivations for Sentencing (PSIMAS). Sentencing. Construction of specific instruments; ecological application. Research results. Practical cases.

The assessment is distributed across the following elements: (a) attendance at theoretical, practical and theoretical-practical classes, and participation in them; (b) attendance at all sessions indicated by teachers, with the preparation of a short piece of work in class (40%); (c) completion of a frequency (60%). For the purposes of weighting the assessment, paragraph (b) requires participation and preparation of a report in all sessions, with a maximum number of 3.

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