''Law and Human Behavior'' is a bimonthly

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published by the

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. It publishes original empirical papers, reviews, and

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on how the law, legal system, and legal process relate to human behavior, particularly

legal psychology Together, legal psychology and forensic psychology form the field more generally recognized as "psychology and law". Following earlier efforts by psychologists to address legal issues, psychology and law became a field of study in the 1960s as p ...

and

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. The current

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is Bradley D. McAuliff (

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). Past editors have been Margaret Bull Kovera (

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) (Brian Cutler (

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), Richard Wiener (

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), Ronald Roesch (

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Michael J. Saks Michael J. Saks is a professor of law at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; he holds a secondary appointment in the department of psychology.

(

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), and Bruce Sales (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by

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and the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 3.795.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/lhb/index.aspx American law journals Forensic psychology journals Publications established in 1977 Bimonthly journals English-language journals American Psychological Association academic journals