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.^[1]

Law and Human Behavior

Discipline	Legal psychology, forensic psychology
Language	English
Edited by	Bradley D. McAuliff
Publication details
History	1977–present
Publisher	American Psychological Association
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	2.4 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
Bluebook	Law & Hum. Behav.
ISO 4	Law Hum. Behav.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	LHBEDM
ISSN	0147-7307 (print) 1573-661X (web)
LCCN	77641812
OCLC no.	03173559
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 2.4.^[2]

Editors

• David DeMatteo, (incoming, 2025-present) Drexel University
• Bradley D. McAuliff, (2019-2024) California State University, Northridge
• Margaret Bull Kovera, (2012-2018) John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
• Brian Cutler, (2007-2011) University of Ontario Institute of Technology
• Richard Wiener, (1997-2006) University of Nebraska
• Ronald Roesch, (1988-1996) Simon Fraser University
• Michael J. Saks, (1985-1988) Arizona State University
• Bruce Sales, (1977-1984) University of Arizona