The first ever Conference on Interrogations and Confessions was held at the University of Texas at El Paso in September 2007 (Meissner & Lassiter, 2007).* The event was supported by a Conferences Grant Award from the American Psychological Association Science Directorate to the coorganizers, G. Daniel Lassiter (Ohio University) and Christian A. Meissner (University of Texas at El Paso). Over 200 academics, law enforcement personnel, prosecutors, public defenders, judges, clinical practitioners, and legislators attended the two-and-a-half-day conference, representing over 15 states in the US, as well as Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Japan, and Australia. At the conference, …