{"id":44007,"date":"2025-09-03T23:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/?p=44007"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:42:54","slug":"criminal-profiling-on-tv-and-in-real-life-with-dr-alexandra-zidenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/criminal-profiling-on-tv-and-in-real-life-with-dr-alexandra-zidenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal profiling on TV and in real life with Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2153769597%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-vUUiHfmW6pi&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"textwrapright\" style=\"max-width: 25%;\" src=\"\/docs\/File\/Podcast\/Criminal-profiling-on-TV-and-in-real-life-with-Dr.-Alexandra-Zidenberg-1x1.jpg\" alt=\"Criminal profiling on TV and in real life with Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg\" \/><br \/>\nCriminal profiling, in the sense that we see it on TV, has less than a 50% success rate. As a tool of law enforcement, it is the equivalent of a coin flip. But seeing law enforcement use it successfully on television gives us, the viewers, a sense that these methods yield tremendous results in real life. And, maybe, makes us believe that we would be successful should we be given a similar task. Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg from the University of Montreal joins <em>Mind Full<\/em> to talk about a recent study she did with grad student Vivian Mullins in RMC&#8217;s Department of Military Psychology and Leadership. How much does binge-watching <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> enhance our ability to profile a suspect? Do true-crime podcasts (which usually deal with crimes that have been solved) skew our beliefs about the effectiveness of law enforcement?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2153769597%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-vUUiHfmW6pi&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"textwrapright\" style=\"max-width: 25%;\" src=\"\/docs\/File\/Podcast\/Criminal-profiling-on-TV-and-in-real-life-with-Dr.-Alexandra-Zidenberg-1x1.jpg\" alt=\"Criminal profiling on TV and in real life with Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg\" \/><br \/>\nCriminal profiling, in the sense that we see it on TV, has less than a 50% success rate. As a tool of law enforcement, it is the equivalent of a coin flip. But seeing law enforcement use it successfully on television gives us, the viewers, a sense that these methods yield tremendous results in real life. And, maybe, makes us believe that we would be successful should we be given a similar task. Dr. Alexandra Zidenberg from the University of Montreal joins <em>Mind Full<\/em> to talk about a recent study she did with grad student Vivian Mullins in RMC&#8217;s Department of Military Psychology and Leadership. How much does binge-watching <em>Criminal Minds<\/em> enhance our ability to profile a suspect? Do true-crime podcasts (which usually deal with crimes that have been solved) skew our beliefs about the effectiveness of law enforcement?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archivedailyaudiofr","category-archivedailyaudio"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-28 11:38:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44335,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44007\/revisions\/44335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpa.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}