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Please provide a summary of 2 research studies while explaining how they can be used by forensic psychology in a police setting.

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200 words of links and an attached article are offered to depict how research on how forensic psychology is highly applicable in a police setting.

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The first research study is cited APA style at:

Gudjonsson, G. H. (2003). Psychology brings justice: the science of forensic psychology. Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health, 13(3), 159-167.

The article clearly depicts how the development of psychological instruments can be used with a social psychological model to improve the assessment procedures for evaluating witnesses' credibility and police detainees during interviewing. The article demonstrate that through case studies that "...it is wrong to assume that only persons with learning disability or those who are mentally ill make unreliable or false confessions. Personality factors, such as suggestibility, compliance, high trait anxiety and ...

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