Identifying interrogation strategies that minimize the likelihood of obtaining false information, without compromising the ability...

The aim of this study was to model various social and cognitive processes believed to...

The discovery of many cases of wrongful conviction in the criminal justice system involving admissions...

Known as the cross-race effect (CRE), psychological research has consistently shown that people are less...

The current research examined whether the cross-race effect (CRE) was evident in perceptual identification tasks...

The Cognitive Interview (CI) is a well-established protocol for interviewing witnesses. The current article presents...

The White Paper suggests important reforms that will reduce the likelihood of false confessions resulting...

The current research examined the contributions of recollection vs. familiarity in memory for own- and...

Two studies examined the role of processing style (intuitive vs. deliberative processing) in a deception...

The current research examined the potential benefit of context reinstatement on the cross-race effect in...

Verbal descriptions can sometimes impair (or “overshadow”) and other times facilitate subsequent attempts at perceptual...

Over a century of laboratory research has explored the mechanisms of memory using a variety...

This study examined whether findings from research on the cross-race effect (CRE) in eyewitness memory...

People are better at recognising faces of their own-race than faces of other racial groups....

The present study presents one of the first investigations of the effects of accomplice witnesses...

By questionnaire, 631 police investigators reported on their interrogation beliefs and practices—the first such survey...

This study explored carryover effects from showups to subsequent lineup identifications using a novel paradigm...

People are often more accurate in recognizing faces of ingroup than outgroup members. While own...

Many eyewitness researchers have argued for the application of a sequential alternative to the traditional...

The primary goal of the current study was to develop a novel experimental paradigm with...

College students and police investigators watched or listened to ten prison inmates confessing to crimes....

The current studies assessed the phenomenological basis of the cross-race effect by examining predictions of...

Eyewitness identification evidence is an important aspect of our legal system. Society relies on witnesses...

Common wisdom seems to suggest that racial bias, defined as disparate treatment of minority defendants,...

Event memory and misinformation effects were examined in an adult gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). The...

Prior research on jury nullification has suggested that individuals tend to operate on their “sentiments”...

Instances of wrongful conviction in North America and Great Britain have uncovered numerous cases in...

Previous studies have demonstrated that instructional manipulation of a participant witness’s response criterion on a...

Detecting deception is an inherently difficult task, but one that plays a critical role for...

Recent studies have demonstrated that requesting individuals to produce a verbal description of a previously...

Recent studies of eyewitness memory have observed deleterious effects of producing a verbal description on...

The current paper reviews the own-race bias (ORB) phenomenon in memory for human faces, the...

The likelihood of false recall in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm was shown to depend on...

This study investigated factors associated with the commonly found own-race bias in face recognition. We...

Issues surrounding lineup fairness have been explored scientifically for over two decades. The present study...

Over a decade of research has investigated the verbal overshadowing effect. This phenomenon, first demonstrated...

An eyewitness’s identification of a perpetrator is a prevalent form of incriminating evidence presented in...