Gísli Hannes Guðjónsson,

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(born 26 October 1947) is an Icelandic-

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academic, educator,

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and former detective. He is

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at the

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and a Professor in the Psychology Department at Reykjavik University. Gísli is specialized in suggestibility,

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and

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Biography

Gísli was born on 26 October 1947 to Guðjón Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson and Þóra Hannesdóttir. His twin brother joined the Reykjavík Criminal Investigation Police while he chose to study economics at

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(BSc, 1975), but changed to psychology whilst in his second year. He completed his studies at the

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(MSc, 1977; PhD, 1981). 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. In the 1990s he worked as head of forensic psychology services and clinical psychologist to the

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and

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. He was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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and

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being overturned. 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."Kassin, Drizin, Grisso, Gudjonsson, Leo, & Redlich (2010). Police-induced confessions: Risk factors and recommendations. ''Law and Human Behavior, 34,'' 3-38.

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

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and intellectual ability, memory, interrogative suggestibility and acquiescence.'' (

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, 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)

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Biography

Selected list of publications

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