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‘Guilty plea decisions: Moving beyond the autonomy myth’
– Rebecca K. Helm, Roxanna Dehaghani, and Daniel Newman
(2022) 85(1) Modern Law Review 133
‘Guilty pleas in children: Legitimacy, vulnerability, and the need for increased protection’
– Rebecca K. Helm
(2021) 48(2) Journal of Law and Society 179
‘Pleading guilty online: Enhanced vulnerability and access to justice’
– Rebecca K. Helm
Modern Law Review Forum
‘Too young to plead? Risk, rationality and plea bargaining’s innocence problem in adolescents’
– Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie F. Reyna, Allison A. Franz, and Rachel Z. Novick
(2018) 24(2) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 180
‘Adaptive lie detection and perceived prevalence of false reports in evaluation of sexual offence allegations’
– Rebecca K. Helm
(2023) Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
‘Predicting and projecting memory: Error and bias in metacognitive judgments underlying testimony evaluation’
– Rebecca K. Helm and Bethany Growns
(2023) 28(1) Legal and Criminological Psychology 15
‘Prevalence estimates as priors: Juror characteristics, perceived base rates, and verdicts in cases reliant on complainant and defendant testimony.’
– Rebecca K. Helm and Bethany Growns
(2022) 36(4) Applied Cognitive Psychology 891
‘Evaluating witness testimony: Juror knowledge, false memory, and the utility of evidence-based directions’
– Rebecca K. Helm
(2021) 25(4) The International Journal of Evidence & Proof 264
‘Trial by numbers’
– Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie P. Hans and Valerie F. Reyna
(2017) Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 107
‘Regulatory responses to fake news and freedom of expression: Normative and empirical evaluation’
– Rebecca K. Helm and Hitoshi Nasu
(2021) 21(2) Human Rights Law Review 302
‘Constrained waiver of trial rights? Incentives to plead guilty and the right to a fair trial’
– Rebecca K. Helm
(2019) 46(3) Journal of Law and Society 423
‘The anatomy of “factual error” miscarriages of justice: A fifty year review ‘
– Rebecca K. Helm
(2021) 5 Criminal Law Review 351
‘Brain activation covaries with reported criminal behaviours when making risky choices: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Approach’
– Valerie F. Reyna, Rebecca K. Helm, Rebecca B. Weldon, Pooja D. Shah, Alexa G. Turpin, and Shravya Govindgari
(2018) 147(7) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 1094
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Guilty Pleas
‘Developing a Model of Guilty Plea Decision-Making: Fuzzy-Trace Theory, Gist, and Categorical Boundaries ‘ – Tina M. Zottoli*, Rebecca K. Helm*, Vanessa A. Edkins, and Michael T. Bixter *joint first author
(Accepted) Law and Human Behavior
‘Plea-based sentence reductions: Legal assumptions and empirical realities’ – Rebecca K. Helm
in Julian Roberts and Jesper Ryberg (eds.), Sentencing the Self-Convicted: The Ethics of Pleading Guilty (Hart Bloomsbury, 2023)
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‘Cognition and incentives in plea decisions: Categorical differences in outcomes as the tipping point for innocent defendants’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2022) 28(3) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 344
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‘Guilty plea decisions: Moving beyond the autonomy myth’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Roxanna Dehaghani, and Daniel Newman
(2022) 85(1) Modern Law Review 133
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‘Guilty pleas in children: Legitimacy, vulnerability, and the need for increased protection’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2021) 48(2) Journal of Law and Society 179
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‘Pleading guilty online: Enhanced vulnerability and access to justice’ – Rebecca K. Helm
Modern Law Review Forum
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‘Constrained waiver of trial rights? Incentives to plead guilty and the right to a fair trial’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2019) 46(3) Journal of Law and Society 423
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‘Conviction by consent? Vulnerability, autonomy, and conviction by guilty plea’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2019) 83(2) The Journal of Criminal Law 161
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‘Too young to plead? Risk, rationality and plea bargaining’s innocence problem in adolescents’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie F. Reyna, Allison A. Franz, and Rachel Z. Novick
(2018) 24(2) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 180
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‘Cognitive theory and plea-bargaining’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2018) 5(2) Policy Insights from the Behavioural and Brain Sciences 195
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‘Logical but incompetent plea decisions: A new approach to plea bargaining grounded in cognitive theory’ – Rebecca K. Helm and Valerie F. Reyna
(2017) 23(3) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 367
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‘Limitations on the ability to negotiate justice’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie F. Reyna, Alison, A. Franz, Rachel Z. Novick, Sarah Dincin, and Amanda E. Cort
(2018) 24(9) Psychology, Crime, and Law 915
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‘The Unexonerated: Factually innocent defendants who plead guilty’ – John H Blume and Rebecca K Helm
(2014) 100 Cornell Law Review 157
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Juries and Jury Decision Making
‘Adaptive lie detection and perceived prevalence of false reports in evaluation of sexual offence allegations’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2023) Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
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‘Predicting and projecting memory: Error and bias in metacognitive judgments underlying testimony evaluation’ – Rebecca K. Helm and Bethany Growns
(2023) 28(1) Legal and Criminological Psychology 15
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‘Prevalence estimates as priors: Juror characteristics, perceived base rates, and verdicts in cases reliant on complainant and defendant testimony.’ – Rebecca K. Helm and Bethany Growns
(2022) 36(4) Applied Cognitive Psychology 891
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‘Jury decision making in the criminal trial’ – Rebecca K. Helm and Madeleine Millar
in E. Johnston (ed.), Challenges in Criminal Justice (Routledge, 2022)
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‘Guiding jurors’ damage award decisions: Experimental investigations of approaches based on theory and practice’ – Valerie P. Hans, Krystia Reed, Valerie F. Reyna, David Garavito, and Rebecca K. Helm
(2022) 28(2) Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 188
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‘Evaluating witness testimony: Juror knowledge, false memory, and the utility of evidence-based directions’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2021) 25(4) The International Journal of Evidence & Proof 264
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‘Numeracy in the jury box: Numerical ability, meaningful anchors, and damage-award decision-making’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie P. Hans, Valerie F. Reyna and Krystia Reed
(2020) 34(2) Applied Cognitive Psychology 434
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‘Procedural roles: Professional judges, lay judges, and lay jurors’ – Rebecca K. Helm and Valerie P. Hans
in Darryl Brown, Jenia Iontcheva Turner and Bettina Weisser (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process (OUP, 2019)
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‘From meaning to money: Translating injury into dollars’ – Valerie P. Hans, Rebecca K. Helm, and Valerie F. Reyna
(2018) 42(2) Law and Human Behavior 95
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‘Trial by numbers’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Valerie P. Hans and Valerie F. Reyna
(2017) Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 107
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‘Unpacking insanity defence standards: An experimental study of rationality and control tests in criminal law’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Stephen J. Ceci, and Kayla A. Burd
(2016) 8(2) The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context 63
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Eyewitness Memory
‘Evaluating witness testimony: Juror knowledge, false memory, and the utility of evidence-based directions’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2021) 24(5) The International Journal of Evidence & Proof 264
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‘Forensic analysis of child interrogations and testimony’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Caisa E. Royer, and Stephen J. Ceci
in Wendy Koen and C. Michael Bowers (eds.), Psychology and Sociology of Wrongful Convictions (Academic Press, 2018)
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‘Can implicit associations distinguish true and false eyewitness memory?’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Stephen J. Ceci, and Kayla A. Burd
(2017) 34(6) Behavioural Sciences & the Law 803
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‘Children’s suggestibility research: Things to know before interviewing a child’ – Amelia C. Hritz, Caisa E. Royer, Rebecca K. Helm, Kayla A. Burd, Karen Ojeda, and Stephen J. Ceci
(2015) 25(1) Anuario de Psicología Jurídica 3
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Human Rights
‘Regulatory responses to fake news and freedom of expression: Normative and empirical evaluation’ – Rebecca K. Helm and Hitoshi Nasu
(2021) 21(2) Human Rights Law Review 302
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‘Constrained waiver of trial rights? Incentives to plead guilty and the right to a fair trial’ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2019) 46(3) Journal of Law and Society 423
Read more
Miscarriages of Justice
‘The anatomy of “factual error” miscarriages of justice: A fifty year review ‘ – Rebecca K. Helm
(2021) 5 Criminal Law Review 351
Read more
‘The Unexonerated: Factually innocent defendants who plead guilty’ – John H Blume and Rebecca K Helm
(2014) 100 Cornell Law Review 157
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Arbitration
‘Are arbitrators human?’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Andrew J. Wistrich, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski
(2016) 13(4) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 666
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Neuroscience and Law
‘Brain activation covaries with reported criminal behaviours when making risky choices: A Fuzzy-Trace Theory Approach’ – Valerie F. Reyna, Rebecca K. Helm, Rebecca B. Weldon, Pooja D. Shah, Alexa G. Turpin, and Shravya Govindgari
(2018) 147(7) Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 1094
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Forensic Science and Expertise
‘Digital evidence in defence practice: Prevalence, challenges, and expertise ‘ – Dana Wilson-Kovacs, Rebecca K. Helm, Bethany Growns, and Lauren Redfern
(in Press) International Journal Of Evidence and Proof
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‘The low prevalence effect in fingerprint comparison amongst forensic science trainees and novices’ – Bethany Growns, James Dunn, Rebecca K. Helm, Alice Towler, and Jeff Kukucka
(2023) 17(8) PLOS One e0272338
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‘Expert decision-making’ – Rebecca K. Helm, Michael McCormick, and Valerie F. Reyna
in Linden Ball and Valerie Thompson (eds.), The International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (Routledge, 2019)
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