Gísli Guðjónsson

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Gísli Guðjónsson is Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

He is an internationally renowned authority on suggestibility and false confessions whose expert testimony was the basis for the convictions of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four being overturned.

His publications include the following:

• 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
• Forensic Psychology. A Guide to Practice (with Lionel Haward)
• The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales Manual

[edit] See also

• Memory distrust syndrome