Lee John Curley

Experience

• 2024–present
  Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian
• 2019–2024
  Lecturer, The Open University
• 2017–2019
  Teaching Associate , Edinburgh Napier University

Education

• 2024 
  The Open University , Senior Fellow of HEA
• 2018 
  Edinburgh Napier University , PhD
• 2014 
  Edinburgh Napier University, BSc Honours Degree in Psychology (2:1)

Publications

• 2026
  Unveiling Bias: The Impact of Male Rape Myths and Stereotypes on Juror Verdicts in Male-on-Male Rape Trials., Behavioral Sciences & the Law
• 2026
  A Qualitative Exploration of the Barriers Faced by Domestic Abuse Victims in Engaging with the Criminal Justice System in Scotland, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Law
• 2025
  The effects of contextual bias on face recognition decisions, Journal of Forensic Sciences
• 2025
  Jury Decision Making, Core Foundations and Contemporary Issues in Forensic Psychology
• 2025
  The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Family Experiences: A Qualitative Exploration of Sibling Resilience, Behavioural sciences
• 2024
  The Effect of Verdict System on Juror Decisions: A Quantitative Meta-Analysis, Journal of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
• 2024
  Are legal experts better at making decisions than laypersons? A psychological evaluation of the role of juries in the 21st century, Journal of Criminal Psychology
• 2024
  Rape Myths and Verdict Systems: What Is Influencing Conviction Rates in Rape Trials in Scotland? , Behavioural Sciences
• 2024
  The effects of retrial knowledge on juror decisions. , The journal of Criminal Psychology.
• 2024
  Corporate Colonization, Geopolitical Power Struggles, and Hypernudge – How Social Media Engineers Minds. , In C. Shei & J. Schnell (Eds), Oxford: Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering. Oxford: Routledge.
• 2024
  The strengths and limitations of the experimental study of juror and jury decision making. , In N. Monaghan (Ed), Challenges in the Jury System: UK Juries in Comparative Perspective. Oxford: Routledge.
• 2023
  An Interdisciplinary Re-Perspectivation of the Study of Heuristics, Biases, and Nudges. , New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences
• 2022
  Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making, Medicine, Science and the Law
• 2022
  Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system, Behavioural Sciences and the Law
• 2022
  The Emergence of Global Behavioral Public Policy – Developments of and within the Nudge Unit, World Science Academy Journal
• 2022
  The Emergence of Global Behavioral Public Policy – Developments of and within the Nudge Unit. , World Science Academy Journal
• 2021
  Informing reform: The views of legal professionals on the unique aspects of Scottish Law. , Medicine, Science and the Law
• 2021
  Verdictspotting: Investigating the effects of juror bias, evidence anchors, and verdict system in jurors., Psychiatry, Psychology and law
• 2020
  Assessing cognitive bias in forensic decisions: A review and outlook, The journal of Forensic Science
• 2020
  Authors’ Response: Is the definition of task-irrelevant contextual information black and white? , The journal of Forensic Science
• 2020
  An inconvenient truth: More rigorous and ecologically valid research is needed to properly understand cognitive bias in forensic decisions, Forensic Science International: Synergy
• 2020
  Author Response: No need for throwing stones – wherever you live… , Forensic Science International: Synergy
• 2020
  Bilingualism: The foreign language effect does not extend to rational decision making. , Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis
• 2019
  Threshold point utilisation in juror decision-making, Psychiatry, Psychology and law
• 2019
  The bastard verdict and its influence on jurors, Medicine, Science and the Law
• 2018
  Decision Science: A new hope, Psychological Reports
• 2018
  Faith in thy threshold, Medicine, Science and the Law
• 2017
  Are consistent juror decisions related to fast and frugal decision making? Investigating the relationship between juror consistency, decision speed and cue utilisation. , Medicine, Science and the Law
• 2017
  Decision Making Process of Jurors In Factbook: Psychology and Law, European Association of Psychology and Law Student Society
• 2017
  The Relationship between the Big 5 Personality Traits and Eyewitness Recognition, Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis
• 2016
  Heuristics:The good, the bad, and the biased - what value can bias have for decision-makers?, PSYPAG

Grants and Contracts

• 2024
  Conspiracy-juror bias: Studying how a conspiracy mindset affects jurors

  Role:

  Co-I

  Funding Source:

  Leverhulme Trust

• 2023
  Jury Decision-making in English Male Rape Trials: Investigating the Role of Defendant Race and Complainant Sexuality on Juror Judgements and Verdict Outcome

  Role:

  Co-I

  Funding Source:

  British Academy/Leverhulme

• 2020
  Super-recognisers: Is Bias their Kryptonite?

  Role:

  PI

  Funding Source:

  British Academy/Leverhulme

Professional Memberships

• Scottish Institute of Policing Research
• Centre for Policing Research and Learning
• Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative
• The International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services.
• the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research
• The Social, Criminal and Legal Justice Research Group