To prepare: View interviews of psychopaths and sociopaths in Learning Resources Review the “Characteristics of Psychopaths and Sociopaths” document in the Learning Resources. Review the “Offender Interview Role Play Instructions.” (Note: For the interview, you assumed the role of a forensic interviewer conducting a live interview with an offender actor who assumed the role of […]

 To prepare: Review the Learning Resources and current, peer-reviewed sources (within the last 5 years) from your own internet research about the traits, tendencies, characteristics, statistics, etc. of the population associated with your current, advanced forensic psychology issue. For your annotated bibliography, identify at least 4 additional scholarly resources related to traits, tendencies, characteristics, statistics, […]

    Null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) has long been the method of inference in psychology, yet its flaws have been well documented. Both Cohen (1990) and Schmidt (1996) highlight the dangers of relying on statistical significance as the primary criterion for evaluating research findings, yet they do underline various aspects of the problem. Both critiques […]

  Cohen (1990) and Schmidt (1996) both raised important criticisms about the overuse of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) in psychology, highlighting its problematic nature for our field. Cohen (1990) believed that one major issue is how we as psychologists often misuse the information from a p-value. For a finding to be statistically significant (p […]