Karl Ask

Motivational sources of confirmation bias in criminal investigations: the need for cognitive closure

Karl Ask, Pär Anders Granhag · Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling · 2005 · 222 citations

Forensic Psychology, Behavioral Decision Making, Social Psychology +26

To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?

Benedict C. Jones, Lisa M. DeBruine, Jessica Kay Flake et al. · Nature Human Behaviour · 2021 · 205 citations · Full text

Social Identity, Social Behavior, Social Psychology +13

Why emotions matter: Expectancy violation and affective response mediate the emotional victim effect.

Karl Ask, Sara Landström · Law and Human Behavior · 2010 · 127 citations

Forensic Psychology, Expectancy Violation, Affective Variable +22

The ‘elasticity’ of criminal evidence: a moderator of investigator bias

Karl Ask, Anna Rebelius, Pär Anders Granhag · Applied Cognitive Psychology · 2008 · 116 citations

Forensic Psychology, Witness Evidence, Law +17

Motivational Bias in Criminal Investigators' Judgments of Witness Reliability¹

Karl Ask, Pär Anders Granhag · Journal of Applied Social Psychology · 2007 · 114 citations

Forensic Psychology, Social Psychology, Focal Hypothesis +21