Fabiana Alceste
Assistant Professor Psychology, Psychology - LAS
Fabiana Alceste earned her B.A. from the University of Florida and earned her Ph.D. from John Jay College of Criminal Justice/The Graduate Center, CUNY. She currently teaches courses in Social Psychology and Psychology & Law, in addition to Research Methods & Statistics courses. Dr. Alceste’s research area is the psychology of police interrogations and confessions, a topic on which she also teaches a senior seminar. Her recent work focuses on how interrogation practices influence judgments about police custody and confession evidence. She hopes that work in this field will improve the criminal justice system by preventing and reversing wrongful convictions.