Associate Professor Jeffrey Pfeifer
- Faculty of Health, Arts & Design
- School of Health Sciences
- Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science
- Department of Psychological Sciences
Biography
Jeff Pfeifer received his Ph.D. and M.Leg.St. (Master of Legal Studies) from the University of Nebraska and has been teaching and conducting research in forensic psychology for the past 15 years. In addition to his research on jury decision-making, policing, and corrections, he has also conducted a number of training workshops and program evaluations for security agencies in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Tanzania, Namibia, Zambia, and Russia. He has testified as an expert witness in a number of capital (death penalty) and non-capital cases and his research has been cited by a number of courts including the Supreme Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Research interests
Police psychology; prison psychology; sports psychology; jury selection; jury decision-making; athletes and offending behaviours; eyewitnesses and crime; Indigenous people and the justice system; histoy of capital punishment in Australia
Fields of Research
- Applied And Developmental Psychology - 520100
- Biological Psychology - 520200
- Clinical And Health Psychology - 520300
- Cognitive And Computational Psychology - 520400
- Social And Personality Psychology - 520500
Publications
Also published as: Pfeifer, Jeffrey; Pfeifer, J.; Pfeifer, J. E.; Pfeifer, Jeff; Pfeifer, Jeffrey E.
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Recent media
- 2012-01-08: Can play, cant behave: new test sorts out the bad boys - The Age
- 2011-08-05: All in the mind: sporting boys need brain training to stay clean - Sydney Morning Herald
- 2011-08-05: The good and bad of athletes - ABC Radio AM
- 2011-08-04: Sporting boys need brain training - Sydney Morning Herald
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