Law and Human Behavior (LHB) publishes articles on the interface between human behavior and the law, the criminal justice system, and the legal process.
The journal welcomes articles relevant to both researchers and clinicians across a range of psychology–law topic areas.
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about the journal
Impact Factor
2.5
Parent Society
American Psychology–Law Society
Editor-in-Chief
Bradley D. McAuliff, JD, PhD (outgoing)
David DeMatteo, JD, PhD (incoming)
Indexed In
Web of Science; LexisNexis; MEDLINE; PsycINFO; Scopus; and more.
open science at lhb
LHB’s Editorial Team supports and encourages a variety of transparency, openness, and reproducibility initiatives.
Specifically, LHB:
- Recommends the use of the Journal Article Reporting Standards (JARS)
- Was one of the first APA Journals to sign the Transparency and Openness (TOP) Guidelines
- Offers Open Science Badges
- Publishes Registered Reports
- Publishes negative findings and replications, regardless of result
- Recommends preregistration
- Publishes data availability statements
- Requires authors to state all sources of financial support, COI, informed consent, and IRB approval
- Joined APA’s PsyArXiv pilot, allowing authors who post preprints to submit directly to the journal
Continue reading about how and why Law and Human Behavior supports open science: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2019-08477-001
read the latest free-to-read articles from lhb
Developing consensus for culturally informed forensic mental health assessment: Experts' opinions on best practices.
Fanniff et al.
Developing a model of guilty plea decision-making: Fuzzy-trace theory, gist, and categorical boundaries.
Zottoli et al.
Evidence-based suspicion and the prior probability of guilt in police interrogations.
Moody et al.
What’s risk got to do with it: Judges’ and probation officers’ understanding and use of juvenile risk assessments in making residential placement decisions.
McPhee et al.
Racial justice in psycholegal research and forensic psychology practice: Current advances and a framework for future progress.
Hunt et al.
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