Marc A. Klippenstine, MA

Marc A. Klippenstine, Ph.D. Candidate

Current Position:

Full-time graduate student, Doctoral Programme in Social/Personality Psychology, York University.  I am currently in the 3rd year of my Ph.D.  Degree expected in 2004.

Research Interests: 

I am primarily interested in the intersection of law and psychology.  Currently my interest is in jury decision making and includes:

     a)  The effects of complainant and defendant intoxication on juror decision- making in trials of sexual assault trials.
     b)  The role of prior sexual history evidence in trials of sexual assault, and the treatment of this evidence in Canadian and U.S. Courts.
     c)  The role of counterfactual thinking in judgments of causality, and the effects of this cognitive process in the decisions that jurors make.
     d)  The impact of hearsay evidence on jurors decisions.
     e)  The way in which jurors make decisions in civil court cases.
     f)  The impact of basic social psychological processes on juror decision making, and the ways in which these processes can explain the ways that jurors make decisions.

"In some ways, scientific research is like taking a  tangled ball of twine and trying to unravel it.  You look for loose ends.  When you find one, you tug on it to see if it leads to the heart of the tangle.  Sometimes the loose end leads nowhere; sometimes it leads you deeper into the ball, to unexpected and intriguing knots." 

   John R. Horner





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To contact me:

E-mail:  klippenm@yorku.ca
Phone: (416) 736-2100

205 Behavioral Sciences Building
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada   M3J 1P3