am not accepting new graduate student applications
Applied social/cognitive psychology; Psychology and law
Ph.D., Cornell University 1987
M.S., Cornell University 1984
B.S., State University of New York at Cortland 1980
I am a member of the Psychology and Law Graduate Program and Psychology and Law Research Group
Academic Positions
Aug. 1987-June 1993-Assistant Professor, UW Department of Psychology
July 1993-Sept 1997- Associate Professor, UW Department of Psychology
Sept 1997-July 2000- Associate Professor, UW Joint appointment- Department of Psychology
and Criminal Justice
Aug 2000-Aug 2007- Professor and Chair of Psychology Department
July 2000-Present- Professor of Psychology
Research Labs
Legal Decision Making Lab
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
- Introduction to Psychology
- Adolescent Development
- Child Maltreatment
- Psychology and the Law
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Political Behavior
Graduate Courses
- Seminar: Child Maltreatment
- Social Development
- Applied Decision Making
- Adolescent Development
- Psychology and Law
Former Students
Karlee Provenza, Wyoming State Representative
Victoria Estrada-Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Stockton College
Kimberly Schweitzer, Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice, University of Wyoming
Stephannie Walker, Assistant Professor and Chair, University of Mt. Olive
Jennifer Gray, Assistant Professor, University of Mt. Olive
Maggie Renken, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
Andre Kehn, Assistant Professor, University of North Dakota
Connie Tang, Associate Professor, Stockton College
Mindy Dahl, Health Science Policy Advisor, National Institutes of Mental Health
Kamala London, Associate Professor, University of Toledo
Walter Peters, Research Associate, Nielson Corp.
Matt Dammeyer, Director of Behavioral Health at Central Peninsula Hospital
Monica McCoy, Associate Professor and Chair, Converse College
Christopher Chai, Sr. Consultant, Deloitte
Recent Publications
Schweitzer, K., & Nuñez, N. (in press) The effect of evidence order on jurors' verdicts: Primacy and recency effects with probative and non-probative evidence. Psychology, Crime, and Law.
Nuñez, N. & Schweitzer, K. (2021). Perceptions of campaign donors and their impact on judgments of judicial fairness. Psychology, Crime, and the Law DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2021.1909014
Sturges, H.A., & Nuñez, N. (in press). Autism Spectrum Disorder in adult defendants: The impact of information type of juror decision-making. Psychology, Crime and Law.
Myers, B, Nuñez, N., Wilkowski, B., Kehn, A., & Dunn, K. (2018) The heterogeneity
of Victim Impact Statements: A content analysis of capital trial sentencing penalty
phase transcripts. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 24, 474-488. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000185
Reynolds, J. J., Estrada-Reynolds, V., & Nuñez, N. (2018). Development and validation
of the Attitudes Towards Police Legitimacy Scale. Law and Human Behavior, 42(2), 119-134.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000281
Schweitzer, K., & Nuñez, N. (2018). What evidence matters to jurors? The importance
of different homicide trial evidence to mock jurors. Psychiatry, Psychology, and
Law, 25, 437-451. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2018.1437666
Schweitzer, K. & Nuñez, N. (2017). Victim Impact Statements: How victim social class affects juror decision making. Violence and victims, 32, 521- 532. DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-15-00187.
