Biography:Gísli Guðjónsson
Gísli Guðjónsson CBE[1] | |
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| Born | Gísli Hannes Guðjónsson 26 October 1947 Reykjavik, Iceland |
| Nationality | Icelandic |
| Education | Brunel University London University of Surrey |
| Occupation | Academic, professor |
| Known for | Authority on suggestibility and false confessions |
Gísli Hannes Guðjónsson, CBE (born 26 October 1947) is an Icelandic-British academic, educator, forensic psychologist and former detective.[2] He is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry of King's College London and a Professor in the Psychology Department at Reykjavik University.[3] Gísli is an internationally renowned authority on suggestibility and false confessions and is one of the world's leading experts on false memory syndrome.[2]
Biography
Gísli was born on 26 October 1947 to Guðjón Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson and Þóra Hannesdóttir.[4] His twin brother joined the Reykjavik Criminal Investigation Police while he chose to study economics at Brunel University London (BSc, 1975), but changed to psychology whilst in his second year.[5][6] He completed his studies at the University of Surrey (MSc, 1977; PhD, 1981).[7] In 1982, together with MacKeith he coined the term memory distrust syndrome, to describe those who distrust their own memories and are motivated to rely on external (non-self) sources to verify the accuracy of memories.[8]
In the 1990s he worked as head of forensic psychology services and clinical psychologist to the Bethlem Royal Hospital and Maudsley Hospital.[9]
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to clinical psychology.[10][11]
Work
Gísli's expert testimony was the basis for the convictions of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four being overturned.[12] He created the Gudjonsson suggestibility scale to measure how susceptible someone is to coercion during an interrogation. An author of several books, Gudjonsson was a coauthor on the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) White Paper by Saul Kassin et al. (2010) titled "Police-induced confessions: Risk factors and recommendations."[13]
Selected list of publications
- Psychology brings justice: the science of forensic psychology (Crim Behav Ment Health. 2003;13(3):159-67)
- The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions. A Handbook. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. (2003)
- Forensic Psychology. A Guide to Practice (with Lionel Haward)
- The relationship between confabulation and intellectual ability, memory, interrogative suggestibility and acquiescence. (Personality and Individual Differences, 1995)
- The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales Manual. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. (1997)
- The Relationship Of Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms To Suggestibility And Compliance. (Psychology, Crime & Law, June 2004, Vol. 10(2), pp. 169/177)
- The Psychology of False Confessions: Forty Years of Science and Practice (2018)
See also
- Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case
- Memory distrust syndrome
- Perjury
References
- ↑ "Queen's Birthday Honours 2011: list in full". 11 June 2011. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/honours-list/8569793/Queens-Birthday-Honours-2011-list-in-full.html. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cox, Simon (May 2014). "The Reykjavik Confessions". BBC News. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_reykjavik_confessions.
- ↑ "Science and Justice". The British Academy of Forensic Sciences. 5 May 2018. https://www.slsa.ac.uk/images/2018spring/BAFS_Science_Justice_Miscarriages_of_Justice_5.5.18_programme_1.pdf. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ↑ "Guðjón Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson" (in Icelandic). 8 January 2004. https://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/773863/. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ↑ Adeane, Anthony (2018). Out of Thin Air: coming to Netflix this year. Hachette UK. p. 175. ISBN 978-1-78648-745-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=oPQtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT175.
- ↑ Gudjonsson, Gisli (2014). "How I got started: From memory distrust to false confessions". Applied Cognitive Psychology 28 (5): 809–811. doi:10.1002/acp.3037.
- ↑ ‘GUDJONSSON, Prof. Gisli Hannes’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
- ↑ van Bergen, Saskia; Jelicic, Marko; Merckelbach, Harald (2008). "Interrogation techniques and memory distrust". Psychology, Crime & Law 14 (5): 425–434. doi:10.1080/10683160701822533. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247523541. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- ↑ "House of Commons Hansard". Parliament of the United Kingdom. March 15, 1995. https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1995-03-15/debates/a954c242-da18-426c-aef4-6e234b5ef1a5/CommonsChamber. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
- ↑ No. 59808. 11 June 2011. p. 7. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/59808/supplement/7
- ↑ "Main list of the 2011 Queen's birthday honours recipients". BBC News UK. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/11_06_11honours_mainlist.pdf. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
- ↑ Gudjonsson, Gisli H. (2002). "The ‘Guildford Four’ and the ‘Birmingham Six’". in Gudjonsson, Gisli H. The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions: A Handbook. John Wiley & Sons. doi:10.1002/9780470713297. ISBN 9780470844618. https://archive.org/details/The_Psychology_of_Interrogations_and_Confessions_A_Handbook.
- ↑ Kassin, Drizin, Grisso, Gudjonsson, Leo, & Redlich (2010). Police-induced confessions: Risk factors and recommendations. Law and Human Behavior, 34, 3-38.
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