Law and Human Behavior


Law and Human Behavior is a bimonthly academic journal published by the American Psychology–Law Society. It publishes original empirical papers, reviews, and meta-analyses on how the law, legal system, and legal process relate to human behavior, particularly legal psychology and forensic psychology. The current editor-in-chief is Bradley D. McAuliff. Past editors have been Margaret Bull Kovera , Richard Wiener, Ronald Roesch, Michael J. Saks, and Bruce Sales.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed and the Social Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 2.78, ranking it 11th out of 148 journals in the category "Law".