Cross-Race Effect
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Known as the cross-race effect (CRE), psychological research has consistently shown that people are less...
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The current research examined whether the cross-race effect (CRE) was evident in perceptual identification tasks...
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The current research examined the contributions of recollection vs. familiarity in memory for own- and...
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The current research examined the potential benefit of context reinstatement on the cross-race effect in...
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This study examined whether findings from research on the cross-race effect (CRE) in eyewitness memory...
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People are better at recognising faces of their own-race than faces of other racial groups....
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The influence of race on eyewitness memory (with John C. Brigham, L Brooke Bennett, and Tara L. Mitchell), In R. Lindsay, D. Ross, J. Read, & M. Toglia, (Eds), Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Memory for People (pp. 257-281). Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. (2007)
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People are often more accurate in recognizing faces of ingroup than outgroup members. While own...
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The current studies assessed the phenomenological basis of the cross-race effect by examining predictions of...
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The current paper reviews the own-race bias (ORB) phenomenon in memory for human faces, the...
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This study investigated factors associated with the commonly found own-race bias in face recognition. We...
Deception Detection
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Two studies examined the role of processing style (intuitive vs. deliberative processing) in a deception...
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College students and police investigators watched or listened to ten prison inmates confessing to crimes....
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Detecting deception is an inherently difficult task, but one that plays a critical role for...
Description-Identification Relationship
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Verbal descriptions can sometimes impair (or “overshadow”) and other times facilitate subsequent attempts at perceptual...
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Person descriptions as eyewitness evidence (with Siegfried L. Sporer and Jonathan W. Schooler), In R. Lindsay, D. Ross, J. Read, & M. Toglia, (Eds), Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Memory for People (pp. 3-34). Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. (2007)
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Previous studies have demonstrated that instructional manipulation of a participant witness’s response criterion on a...
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Over a decade of research has investigated the verbal overshadowing effect. This phenomenon, first demonstrated...
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Recent studies have demonstrated that requesting individuals to produce a verbal description of a previously...
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Recent studies of eyewitness memory have observed deleterious effects of producing a verbal description on...
Eyewitness Identification
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Over a century of laboratory research has explored the mechanisms of memory using a variety...
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This study explored carryover effects from showups to subsequent lineup identifications using a novel paradigm...
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Many eyewitness researchers have argued for the application of a sequential alternative to the traditional...
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Eyewitness memory and identification (with Roy S. Malpass, Laura A. Zimmerman, Stephen J. Ross, Mary E. Rigoni, Lisa D. Topp, Nicole Pruss, Colin G. Tredoux, and Jessica M. Leyva), The San Antonio Defender (2005)
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Eyewitness identification evidence is an important aspect of our legal system. Society relies on witnesses...
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Eyewitness identification (with Colin G. Tredoux, Roy S. Malpass, and Laura A. Zimmerman), In C. Spielberger’s (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology (pp. 875-887). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. (2004)
An eyewitness’s identification of a perpetrator is a prevalent form of incriminating evidence presented in...
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Issues surrounding lineup fairness have been explored scientifically for over two decades. The present study...
Interrogations & Confessions
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The discovery of many cases of wrongful conviction in the criminal justice system involving admissions...
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False confessions (with Allyson J. Horgan and Justin S. Albrechtsen), Applied criminal psychology: A guide to forensic behavioral sciences (2009)
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By questionnaire, 631 police investigators reported on their interrogation beliefs and practices—the first such survey...
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The primary goal of the current study was to develop a novel experimental paradigm with...
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Instances of wrongful conviction in North America and Great Britain have uncovered numerous cases in...
Juror Decision-Making
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The present study presents one of the first investigations of the effects of accomplice witnesses...
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Common wisdom seems to suggest that racial bias, defined as disparate treatment of minority defendants,...
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Prior research on jury nullification has suggested that individuals tend to operate on their “sentiments”...
Memory (Basic & Applied)
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Event memory and misinformation effects were examined in an adult gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). The...
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The likelihood of false recall in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm was shown to depend on...
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