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Evaluations of videotaped criminal confessions can be influenced by the camera perspectivetaken during recording. Interrogations/confessions recorded with the camera directing observers’visual attention onto the suspect lead to biased judgments of the suspect. Although a cameraperspective that directs visual attention onto the suspect and interrogator equally appears topromote unbiased judgments, investigations to date have relied on videotapes that depict onlyCaucasian suspects/interrogators. The current work examined the possibility that even equalfocusvideotapes may become problematic when the suspect is a minority (e.g., Chinese- orAfrican-American) and the interrogator is Caucasian. That is, to the extent that Caucasianobservers are inclined to direct more of their attention onto minorities, an effect documentedpreviously, we expected biased judgments of the suspect to also occur in equal-focus videotapes.Three experiments provided evidence of this racial salience bias. Implications are discussed,including one practical way of avoiding the bias.Hindsight Bias: Emerging Challenges and New SolutionsNeal Roese, Northwestern University (n-roese@kellogg.northwestern.edu)Hindsight bias occurs when people feel that they “knew it all along,” that is, when they believethat an event is more predictable after it becomes known than it was before it became known.The topic of nearly forty years of psychological research, hindsight bias represents a significantimpediment to sound legal decision making, particularly in cases involving negligence ormalpractice. I will review research showing that technologies for visualizing accidents andcrimes (e.g., forensic animation) can have the unintended consequence of increasing hindsightbias, but that factors centering on the presentation format of visualizations can mitigate thiseffect. More general techniques for “de-biasing” judgment and decision making will also bediscussed.179. What the Public and the Health Care Profession Today Needsto Learn from Medical Profession Practices which Precededand Accompanied the Shoah 1939-1945Physical and Emotional Problems among Child Holocaust Survivors: Prognosisand RealityJoanna Michlic, Brandeis Institute (jmichlic@brandeis.edu)In the Spring 1944 issue of the American OSE Review, Dr G. Bychowski, a Polish psychiatrist,contemplated the potential range of mental disorders which Jewish child survivors of NazioccupiedEurope might suffer from acutely as a result of their traumatic wartime experiences.Before he fled Poland for the United Stated in 1941, first-hand medical contact with Jewish420