Faculty and Staff - [ Faculty Bios - Kristine M. Jacquin ]

Research Activities

General area of interest:

• Forensic psychology
• Risky behaviors (aggression, substance use & abuse, risky sex)
• Neuropsychology
• Personality disorders

Current Areas of inquiry:

• Jury decision making - individual difference factors and trial-related factors that influence jury decisions in violent crime cases
• Provoked aggression - individual difference and social factors that influence when or whether people respond to provocation with aggression
• Criminal profiling - factors that influence profiling accuracy; methods for improving accuracy
• Risky behaviors - individual difference (e.g., beliefs) and familial variables (e.g., parental incarceration) associated with risky behaviors in young adults
• Neuropsychology & personality - the relationship between personality, problematic behaviors, and certain neuropsychological characteristics (e.g., memory and attention)

Representative Publications

• Hodges, E. P., & Jacquin, K. M. (2008). Psychological skills and criminal profile accuracy. In R. N. Kocsis (Ed.), Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes (pp. 259-275). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
• Holcomb, M., & Jacquin, K. M. (2007). Juror perceptions of child eyewitness testimony in a sexual abuse trial. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 16(2), 79-95.
• Jacquin, K. M. (2005). Differential diagnosis decisions related to dementia: Using neuropsychological tests to make recommendations in competency hearings. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 23(3), 5-24.
• Jacquin, K. M. (2005). Phenylketonuria. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Development (pp. 993-995). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Jacquin, K. M. (2005). Violence. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Development (pp. 1307-1309). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Jacquin, K. M. (2006). Review of the literature on evaluating juveniles' adjudicative competence. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 24(3), 85-88.
• Jacquin, K. M. (2007). Psychological profiling of violent offenders. The Trowbridge Report, 9(3), 1-7.
• Jacquin, K. M., Harrison, M. L., & Alford, S. M. (2006). Gender and peer presence influence responses to aggressive provocation. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 24(3), 29-44.
• Jacquin, K. M., & Hodges, E. P. (2007). The influence of media messages on mock juror decisions in the Andrea Yates trial. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 25(4), 21-40.