Psychology 370-04/Law 370-04 Professor Scullin Spring 2021 Psychological Research and Murder on a Sunday Morning 5-Page Writing Assignment (20% of final grade) Paper Due Sunday, May 9th by 11:59 pm on Blackboard Your second 5-page paper is due on Sunday, May 9th by 11:59 pm. This paper will be a critical analysis of one of the two major forensic psychology issues raised in the documentary Murder on a Sunday Morning, which we will be your class assignment for the week of April 12th – 18th. You might view this assignment as being like an amicus brief, written to inform the court or defense attorneys about some relevant research. For this paper, you will choose one of the psychological issues that contributed to the wrongful prosecution of this case (eyewitness identification or interrogations/confessions) and analyze how this factor contributed to the prosecution of the defendant. You will need to identify three empirical articles on the psychological issue you selected that also are related to the facts of the case. This means that the papers should have at least one experiment where they are collecting data and testing their hypotheses. Your paper should clearly: Make an argument for how either a) eyewitness identification issues or b) interrogations/ confessions contributed to the defendant’s wrongful prosecution (approximately 1 page). Provide a critical analysis of each the three articles that you identified as supportive of your argument (in #1). For each article, describe the research question tested by the researchers, describe how the authors tested that question and what they found, and relate their findings to the case presented in the documentary. If an article has more than one experiment, choose one of the experiments for this portion of your paper. This analysis should be critical, noting strengths and weaknesses both in the study itself and in its relevance to the case in question (approximately 1 page per article). End with an evaluation of the overall prosecution in this case considering the material we have covered in class so far. You should discuss both eyewitness identification and false confessions in this section. Finally, make recommendations about how the prosecution of this case could have been improved (approximately 1 page). Include a Reference section with the three articles you selected along with any other sources you used to complete your assignment. You do not need to write a reference for the film. Your assignment must follow APA formatting including: Size 12 font, preferably Times New Roman Double-spacing Page numbers on top right (header) 1” margins on all four sides (you may have to adjust the default settings) Title page including title of paper, your name, affiliation (college) and course No abstract is necessary for this assignment Submit your assignment through “Turnitin” on Blackboard by Sunday, May 9th at 11:59pm.