Biography
Anthony Perillo, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Training Director of UNM’s Forensic Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center at John Jay College in 2014. A licensed psychologist with expertise in forensic assessment, Dr. Perillo joined the University of New Mexico in 2022 after previously serving as Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Clinical Training for the Clinical Psychology Psy.D. program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Perillo has received several honors from the American Psychology-Law Society, including a First Place Dissertation Award for his research on risk assessment of sexually abusive clergy and the Early Career Teaching and Mentoring Award for his work with forensic trainees.
Areas of Specialty
Forensic psychological assessment
Expert decision-making
Clinical judgment
Open science practices in science & law
Gender
Male
Research and Scholarship
McAuliff, B. D., Fessinger, M. B., Perillo, A. D., &Perillo, J. T. (2023). Psychology and law, meet open science. In D. DeMatteo & K. C. Scherr (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of psychology and law. Oxford University Press.
Perillo, J. T., Perillo, A. D., Despodova, N. M., & Kovera, M. B. (2021). Testing the waters: An investigation of the impact of hot tubbing on experts from referral through testimony. Law and Human Behavior, 45(3), 229-242.
Perillo, A. D., Calkins, C., & Jeglic, E. L. (2021). Evaluating selection for Sexually Violent Predator commitment: A comparison of those committed, not committed, and nearly committed. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 27(1), 58-71.
Perillo, A. D., Spada, A. H., Calkins, C., & Jeglic, E. L. (2014). Examining the scope of questionable diagnostic reliability in Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) evaluations. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 37(2), 190-197.