Metacognition in criminal profiling

Barry Woodhouse; Wayne Petherick

doi:10.1016/B978-1-4557-3174-9.00010-0

Metacognition in criminal profiling

Barry Woodhouse, Wayne Petherick^*

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Faculty of Society & Design

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This chapter is on metacognition and presents the results of Barry Woodhouse's Master of Psychology (Forensic) thesis that sought to determine whether those given a basic level of profiling education were better at discriminating between a good profile and a bad profile. Results suggest that, even with a basic level of education, individuals rated a poor (and fictional) account of profiling as being of poorer quality than the other profile presented in the experiment. The theory behind metacognition, knowing when you don't know, is provided and discussed within the context of the experiment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Profiling and Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues
Editors	W Petherick
Place of Publication	Untied Kingdom
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	185-206
Number of pages	22
Edition	3rd
ISBN (Print)	9781455731749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-4557-3174-9.00010-0
Publication status	Published - 2014

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