Recent Research Publications
Steers, W.N., & Shaw, J.I. Information search and impression
formation. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 1993, 8, 323-334.
Shaw, J.I., Borough, H. W., & Fink, M.I. Perceived sexual
orientation and helping behavior by males and females: The wrong number
effect. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 1994, 6(3), 73-81.
Reprinted in Alexander, C.J. (Ed.) The Gay and Lesbian Quarterly,
IV(IV), 1995, 1,3.
Skolnick, P., & Shaw, J.I. Is defendant status a liability or a
shield?: Crime severity and professional relatedness. Journal of Applied
Social Psychology, 1994, 24, 1827- 1836.
Shaw, J.I., & Skolnick, P. Sex differences, weapon focus and
eyewitness reliability. Journal of Social Psychology, 1994, 134(4),
413-420.
Shaw, J.I., & Skolnick, P. Effects of prohibitive and informative
judicial instructions on jury decisionmaking. Social Behavior and
Personality, 1995, 23(4), 319-326.
Shaw, J.I., & Skolnick, P. When is defendant status a shield or a
liability?: Clarification and extension. Law and Human Behavior, 1996,
20(4), 431-442.
Shaw, J.I., & Steers, W.N. Effects of perceiver sex, search goal,
and target person attributes on information search in impression
formation. In Crandall, R. (Ed.). (1996). Handbook of gender research
[Special Issue]. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 11(5),
209-227.
Skolnick, P., & Shaw, J.I.The O.J. Simpson criminal trial verdict: Racism or status shield? Journal of Social Issues, 1997, 53(3), 505-518.
Gold, G.J., & Shaw, J.I. Causal chaining: The structure and complexity of accounts. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 1999, 13(4), 651-666.
Shaw, J.I., & Skolnick, P. Weapon focus and sex differences in eyewitness identification: Arousal vs salience. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1999, 29, 2328-2341.
Shaw, J.I., Bergen, J.E., Brown, C.A., & Gallagher, M.E. Centrality preferences in choices among similar options. Journal of General Psychology, 2000, 127(2), 157-164.
Shaw, J.I., & Steers, W.N. Negativity and polarity effects in gathering information to form an impression. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 2000, 15(3), 399-412.
Skolnick, P., & Shaw, J.I. A comparison of eyewitness and physical evidence on mock juror decision-making. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2001, 28(5), 614-630.
Shaw, J.I., & Steers, W.N. Gathering Information to Form an Impression: Attribute categories and information valence. Current Research in Social Psychology, 2001, 6(1), 1-17.
Skolnick, P., & Shaw, J.I. Effects of criminal motivation, ability, and opportunity on mock jurors' verdicts. In Roesch. R., Corrado, R.R., & Dempster, R.J. (Eds.). Psychology in the courts: International advances in knowledge. London: Routledge, 2001, 97-106.
Shaw, J.I., & Skolnick, P. Effects of prejudicial pretrial publicity from physical and witness evidence on mock jurors' decision making. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2004, 34(10), 2132-2148 .
Chu, Y., & Shaw, J.I. Causal chaining: Effects of behavioral domain and outcome valence on perceived causal structure Current Research in Social Psychology, 2005, 10(14), 203-221.
Shaw, J.I., & Skolnick, P. Effects of Psycholegal Knowledge on Decision-Making by Mock Juries Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice, 2005, 1(2), 90-109.
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