William C. Thompson - Publications

Affiliations: 
School of Social Ecology University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 

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2019 Thompson WC, Scurich N. How Cross-Examination on Subjectivity and Bias Affects Jurors' Evaluations of Forensic Science Evidence. Journal of Forensic Sciences. PMID 30791101 DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.14031  0.338
2018 Thompson WC, Scurich N. When does absence of evidence constitute evidence of absence? Forensic Science International. PMID 30224092 DOI: 10.1016/J.Forsciint.2018.08.040  0.392
2016 Saks MJ, Albright T, Bohan TL, Bierer BE, Bowers CM, Bush MA, Bush PJ, Casadevall A, Cole SA, Denton MB, Diamond SS, Dioso-Villa R, Epstein J, Faigman D, Faigman L, ... ... Thompson WC, et al. Forensic bitemark identification: weak foundations, exaggerated claims. Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 3: 538-575. PMID 28852538 DOI: 10.1093/Jlb/Lsw045  0.718
2016 Vuille J, Thompson WC. An American Advantage? How American and Swiss Criminal Defense Attorneys Evaluate Forensic DNA Evidence International Commentary On Evidence. 14: 1-41. DOI: 10.1515/Ice-2016-0002  0.364
2015 Thompson WC, Newman EJ. Lay understanding of forensic statistics: Evaluation of random match probabilities, likelihood ratios, and verbal equivalents. Law and Human Behavior. 39: 332-49. PMID 25984887 DOI: 10.1037/Lhb0000134  0.389
2015 Koppl R, Charlton D, Kornfield I, Krane D, Risinger M, Robertson C, Saks M, Thompson W. Do Observer Effects Matter? A Comment on Langenburg, Bochet, and Ford Forensic Science Policy & Management: An International Journal. 6: 1-6. DOI: 10.1080/19409044.2014.995385  0.338
2014 Risinger DM, Thompson WC, Jamieson A, Koppl R, Kornfield I, Krane D, Mnookin JL, Rosenthal R, Saks MJ, Zabell SL. Regarding Champod, editorial: "Research focused mainly on bias will paralyse forensic science". Science & Justice : Journal of the Forensic Science Society. 54: 508-9. PMID 25498942 DOI: 10.1016/J.Scijus.2014.06.002  0.711
2013 Thompson WC, Vuille J, Biedermann A, Taroni F. The role of prior probability in forensic assessments. Frontiers in Genetics. 4: 220. PMID 24194748 DOI: 10.3389/Fgene.2013.00220  0.356
2013 Thompson WC. Rejecting the Evidence Science. 339: 34-35. DOI: 10.1126/Science.1231183  0.365
2013 Thompson WC, Kaasa SO, Peterson T. Do Jurors Give Appropriate Weight to Forensic Identification Evidence? Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 10: 359-397. DOI: 10.1111/Jels.12013  0.375
2012 Thompson WC. Discussion Paper: Hard Cases Make Bad Law -- Reactions to R v. T Law, Probability and Risk. 11: 347-359. DOI: 10.1093/Lpr/Mgs020  0.346
2011 Thompson WC, Ford S, Gilder JR, Inman K, Jamieson A, Koppl R, Kornfield IL, Krane DE, Mnookin JL, Risinger DM, Rudin N, Saks MJ, Zabell SL. Commentary on: Thornton JI. Letter to the editor--aa rejection of "working blind" as a cure for contextual bias. J Forensic Sci 2010;55(6):1663. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 56: 562-3. PMID 21342200 DOI: 10.1111/J.1556-4029.2010.01679.X  0.677
2011 Thompson WC. What role should investigative facts play in the evaluation of scientific evidence Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences. 43: 123-134. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.1694722  0.415
2011 Biedermann A, Taroni F, Thompson WC. Using graphical probability analysis (Bayes Nets) to evaluate a conditional DNA inclusion Law, Probability and Risk. 10: 89-121. DOI: 10.1093/Lpr/Mgr007  0.332
2010 Thompson WC. An American Psychology-Law Society scientific review paper on police interrogation and confession. Law and Human Behavior. 34: 1-2. PMID 20091338 DOI: 10.1007/S10979-009-9213-9  0.301
2009 Krane DE, Bahn V, Balding D, Barlow B, Cash H, Desportes BL, D'Eustachio P, Devlin K, Doom TE, Dror I, Ford S, Funk C, Gilder J, Hampikian G, Inman K, ... ... Thompson WC, et al. Time for DNA disclosure. Science (New York, N.Y.). 326: 1631-2. PMID 20019271 DOI: 10.1126/Science.326.5960.1631  0.691
2009 Gilder J, Koppl R, Kornfield I, Krane D, Mueller L, Thompson W. Comments on the review of low copy number testing International Journal of Legal Medicine. 123: 535-536. PMID 18800222 DOI: 10.1007/S00414-008-0281-Z  0.399
2009 Thompson WC. Painting the target around the matching profile: the Texas sharpshooter fallacy in forensic DNA interpretation Law, Probability and Risk. 8: 257-276. DOI: 10.1093/Lpr/Mgp013  0.335
2008 Krane DE, Ford S, Gilder JR, Inman K, Jamieson A, Koppl R, Kornfield IL, Risinger DM, Rudin N, Taylor MS, Thompson WC. Sequential unmasking: a means of minimizing observer effects in forensic DNA interpretation. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 53: 1006-7. PMID 18638252 DOI: 10.1111/J.1556-4029.2008.00787.X  0.328
2007 Kaasa SO, Peterson T, Morris EK, Thompson WC. Statistical inference and forensic evidence: evaluating a bullet lead match. Law and Human Behavior. 31: 433-47. PMID 17186386 DOI: 10.1007/S10979-006-9074-4  0.303
2006 Dioso R, Thompson WC. Review of: DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice Journal of Forensic Sciences. 51: 206-207. DOI: 10.1111/J.1556-4029.2005.00045.X  0.317
2005 Quas JA, Thompson WC, Alison K, Stewart C. Do jurors "know" what isn't so about child witnesses? Law and Human Behavior. 29: 425-56. PMID 16133948 DOI: 10.1007/S10979-005-5523-8  0.303
2004 Thompson WC, Taroni F, Aitken CGG. Thompson WC, Taroni F, Aitken CGG. How the probability of a false positive affects the value of DNA evidence. J Forensic Sci 2003;48(1):4754. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 49: 1-2. DOI: 10.1520/Jfs2003315  0.311
2004 Saks MJ, Risinger DM, Rosenthal R, Thompson WC. Context effects in forensic science Science & Justice. 44: 119. DOI: 10.1016/S1355-0306(04)72276-5  0.347
2003 Saks MJ, Risinger DM, Rosenthal R, Thompson WC. Context effects in forensic science: a review and application of the science of science to crime laboratory practice in the United States. Science & Justice : Journal of the Forensic Science Society. 43: 77-90. PMID 12879569 DOI: 10.1016/S1355-0306(03)71747-X  0.436
2003 Thompson WC, Taroni F, Aitken CG. How the probability of a false positive affects the value of DNA evidence. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 48: 47-54. PMID 12570198 DOI: 10.1520/Jfs2001171  0.361
2002 Risinger DM, Saks MJ, Thompson WC, Rosenthal R. The Daubert/Kumho Implications of Observer Effects in Forensic Science: Hidden Problems of Expectation and Suggestion California Law Review. 90: 1-56. DOI: 10.2307/3481305  0.458
1995 Thompson WC. Subjective interpretation, laboratory error and the value of forensic DNA evidence: three case studies. Genetica. 96: 153-168. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-306-46851-3_17  0.39
1987 Thompson WC, Schumann EL. Interpretation of statistical evidence in criminal trials: The prosecutor's fallacy and the defense attorney's fallacy. Law and Human Behavior. 11: 167-187. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01044641  0.34
1980 Reyes RM, Thompson WC, Bower GH. Judgmental biases resulting from differing availabilities of arguments Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 39: 2-12. DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.39.1.2  0.31
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