I have a good friend who works as a prison psychologist. His standard line
is that we as a society need to be developing a much larger pool of serial
killers than we currently have, in order to create work for all the
undergraduates who want to become FBI profilers :) . Unfortunately, we in
the US are doing our level best to meet that goal...
Esther
At 12:00 AM 9/8/2005, you wrote:
Subject: Re: forensic psychology
From: Scott Lilienfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:34:37 -0400
X-Message-Number: 19
In my experience, one of the most important misconceptions to debunk for
such students is that most forensic psychologists become criminal
profilers (perhaps it's just my idiosyncratic sampling experience, but
something like 80-90% of the undergraduates I meet who want to become
"criminal psychologists" are actually interested in becoming FBI
profilers). They don't, and the entire field of criminal profiling is
shrouded in more than its share of scientific controversy (some research
evidence, to be sure, but considerably more art than science at this
point in time).
Incidentally, I'd also encourage these students to look at the
University of Arizona (and David's suggestions are also excellent ones).
....Scott
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Chair, Department of Psychology
Heidelberg College
310 East Market Street
Tiffin, Ohio 44883-2462, U.S.A.
Tel. 419-448-2238
Fax 419-448-2236
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