Program

Legal Psychology Research

• Graduate Research

  Our doctoral program is designed to teach students how to conduct research on psycholegal issues. Students are expected to participate in research throughout their graduate studies under the supervision of one or more faculty members.

  Students are involved in all aspects of the research enterprise, including the development of hypotheses, preparation of research materials, data collection, data analysis, interpretation of results, presentation of the results at professional conferences and preparation of manuscripts for publication. Students work closely with faculty and other students to achieve these goals. A full-time commitment to the program requires that students be engaged in research during the academic year and the summer.

  Students also have access to a variety of research facilities, including academic computer facilities, libraries, psychology laboratories and video equipment.

• Labs

  Many of our research activities are organized under faculty labs.

  Cognitive Laboratory - Charman: Steve Charman's research interests lie mainly in the area of eyewitness psychology - specifically, the underlying cognitive processes of eyewitnesses; various lineup procedures that may improve eyewitness performance; the forensic usefulness (and dangers) of facial composites; and the processes by which crime suspects generate alibis (and how those alibis are subsequently evaluated). His legal psychology lab includes numerous undergraduate and graduate students. He hopes that his work will help improve the accuracy of criminal trial verdicts, which, as recent DNA exoneration cases have shown, can be tragically mistaken.

  Cognitive Laboratory - Fisher: Most of Ronald Fisher's research at the Biscayne Bay Campus revolves around issues related to applying principles of cognition within a legal context. Three primary areas of research are developing the Cognitive Interview procedure to enhance eyewitness memory of crimes (and related areas such as transportation, accidents, group and personal decisions); understanding why memory is sometimes inconsistent and examining the implications for impeaching witnesses; and detecting deception via cognitive measures and manipulations.

  Interviewing Laboratory (I-Lab):  Nadja Schreiber Compo’s research in the I-Lab focuses on eyewitness memory and investigative interviewing, including the interviewing of vulnerable victims and witnesses such as the intoxicated. In collaboration with community stakeholders, we are also examining which factors increase and decrease bias in investigations and real-world investigators’, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners', and forensic examiner's perceptions of and experiences within investigations.

  Social Understanding, Personal Experiences, and Relationships (SUPER Lab): Deborah Goldfarb's SUPER Lab researches issues at the intersection of developmental and legal psychology through collaborative efforts of graduate and undergraduate students and the legal community. The lab is analyzing issues related to adults’ memory for childhood trauma, children’s understanding of interactions with law enforcement, and legal treatment of social groups, among other issues.

  Theory-based Research on Interviewing, Interrogation, Intelligence-gathering, and Assessing Deception (TRIIIAD Lab): Led by Jacqueline Evans, the TRIIIAD Lab conducts experimental research on investigative interviewing in its many forms, including interviewing cooperative witnesses, interrogating uncooperative suspects and gathering intelligence from sources. In addition, research in the lab addresses the ability (or inability) to detect deception in a variety of contexts. Variables/constructs of interest include language proficiency, presence of a translator, depletion of self-regulatory resources and interviewee intoxication. Evans works on these projects with graduate and undergraduate students. She hopes that findings coming from the lab will help to inform professionals in various legal and national security contexts regarding the most effective methods to use when engaging in an investigative interview and assessing interviewee credibility.

• 2024 Publications

  Dawson, H.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Thomas, T. & Lopez Nobrega, J. (in press). Assessing trauma and training needs of sexual assault nurse examiners across the United States. Journal of Forensic Nursing.

  Evans, J.R., Mindthoff, A., LaBat, D.E., Sparacino, M., Schreiber Compo, N., Polanco, K., & Hagsand A.V. (2024). The impact of alcohol intoxication and short-sighted decision-making in the interrogation room. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000173 
   
  Goldfarb, D., Chae, H., Dawson, H.R., Evans, J.R., Fisher, R.P., Daneshbodi, A., & Meissner, C.A. (2024). Efficacy of memory protocols in 9- to 89-year-olds' memory for prior contacts. Scientific Reports, 14, 5775, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55267-3  

  Katz, C., Jacobson, M. A., Priolo Filho, S. R., Goldfarb, D., Liu, J., Zibetti, M. R., ... & Wekerle, C. (2024). Examining resilience among child protection professionals during COVID-19: A global comparison across 57 countries. Child Abuse & Neglect, 106659.
   
  Kenny, M. C., Ortiz Diaz, K., Goldfarb, D., & Satoba, S. (2024). Parental drug use as a form of potential child maltreatment in the United States: A review of state statutes. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 30(3), 303–313. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000419 
   
  Meldrum, R.C., Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., & Piquero, A. R. (2024). Experimental evidence that alcohol intoxication diminishes the inhibitory effect of self-control on reactive aggression. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 20, 635–660. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09549-3 
   
  Peek, J., Carol, R. N., Evans, J.R., Arms-Chavez, C., & Tidwell, P. (2024). I helped the interviewer and I liked it: Rapport building and benevolence transfer. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4156

  Pena, M.M., Stoiloff, S., Sparacino, M., & Schreiber Compo (2024). The effects of cognitive bias, examiner expertise, and stimulus material on forensic evidence analysis. Journal of Forensic Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.15565

  Rivard, J.R., LaBat, D.E., Carlson, V., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2024). TheEffect of Pre-Interview Knowledge and Instructions on Interviewer Memory. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1626 

  Wolfs, A. C. F., Hyman Gregory, A., Goldfarb, D., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2024). A survey of US police on-the-scene and station witness interviews and recording practices. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2024.2358907 
   
  Wolfs, A. C. F., Shestowsky, D., & Goldfarb, D. (2024). Justice via chat? How litigants’ preferences and attorneys’ recommendations influence the choice to use online dispute resolution. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 30(3), 348–362. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000424 

• 2023 Publications

  Chandler, D., Vrij, A., Vernham, Z., Nahari, G., Fisher, R. P., Leal, S., & Mather, R. A. C. (2023). Drawing to conclusion: The effect of sketching recall methods to enhance information-gathering and cues to deceit. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37, 1094-1112. doi: 10.1002/acp.4107

  Deeb, H., Evans, J.R., & Vrij, A. (2023). Editorial: Contextualizing interviews to detect verbal cues to truths and deceit. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1300160

  Douglass, A., Charman, S. D.,Matuku, K., Shambaugh, L., Lapar, M., & Lamere, E. (in press). Case Information Biases Evaluations of Video-recorded Eyewitness Identification Evidence. In press at the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

  Goldfarb, D. & Fisher, R. P. (2023). Interviewing cooperative forensic witnesses and mediation: Areas of overlap and potential for future research.  Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law (D. DeMatteo & K. C. Scherr, Eds.)  Oxford University Press. New York. pp.480-496. doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197649138.013.28

  Fisher, R. P., & Ashkenazi, T. (2023). The Cognitive Interview in Laboratory and Field tests of Crime and Terrorism. Chapter in Interviewing and interrogation: A timeline and explanation of methodologies. Eds. Oxburgh, G., Mykleburst, T., Fallon, M., & Hartwig, M. Torkel Opsahl Academic ePublisher. (pp. 341-366).(ISBNs: 978-82-8348-200-3 (print) and 978-82-8348-201-0 (ebook)).
  
  Hagsand, A.V., Kelly, C., Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Karhu, J., & Huntley, R. (2023). The interrogator-suspect dynamic in custodial interrogations in Sweden: An application of the interrogation taxonomy framework. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 64, 352-367. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12889 

  LaBat, D.E., Goldfarb, D., Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Koolmees, C. J., LaPorte, G., & Lothridge, L. (2023). A forensic science informational video can help mock jurors evaluate forensic expert testimony. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 50 (11). https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548231195112

  LaBat, D.E., Goldfarb, D., Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Koolmees, C. J., LaPorte, G., & Lothridge, L. (2023). Improving juror assessments of forensic testimony and its effects on decision-making and evidence evaluation. Law and Human Behavior, 47(5), 566–578.https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000539

  Leal, S., Vrij, A., Deeb, H., Burkhardt, J., Dabrowna, O. & Fisher, R. P. (2023). Verbal cues to deceit when lying through omitting information: Examining the effect of a model statement interview protocol. The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 15(1), 1-8 
  
  Leal, S., Vrij, A., Deeb, H., Dabrowna, O., & Fisher, R. P. (2023). Combining the devil’s advocate approach and verifiability approach to assess veracity in opinion statements. European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 15(2), 53-61. https://doi.org/10.5093/ejpalc2023a6
  
  Leal, S., Vrij, A., Deeb, H., & Fisher, R. P., (2023).  Interviewing to detect omission lies. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 37, 26-41. doi: 10.1002/acp 4020.
   
  Luther, K., Snook, B., Eastwood, J., & Fisher, R. P. (2023) Sketching: The Effect of a Dual-Modality Technique on Recall Performance. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 38, 469–482 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-022-09544-4
  
  Mattes, K., Popova, V., & Evans, J.R. (2023). Deception detections in politics: Can voters tell when politicians are lying? Political Behavior, 5, 395-418. doi: 10.1007/s11109-021-09747-1
   
  Rivard, J.R., Carlson, V., LaBat, D.E., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2023). The delayed impact of informed vs. blind interviewing on eyewitness memory. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 29 (1), 85- 99.  https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12253.

  Rodríguez de la Rosa, A.L., Stephens, D. Montes, F., Sarmiento, O.L., De la Vega-Taboada, E., Eaton, A., Schreiber Compo, N., & Madhivanan, P. (2023). Adolescent Social Networks and Physical Intimate Partner Violence Among Colombian Rural Adolescents, Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, DOI: 10.1080/10926771.2023.2238631

  Vrij, A., Fisher, R. P., & Leal, S. (2023). How researchers can make verbal lie detection more attractive for practitioners, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 30(3), 383–396. doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2035842
  
  Vrij, A., Granhag, P. A., Ashkenazi, T., Ganis, G., Leal, S., & Fisher, R., P. (2022). Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future. Brain Sciences, 12, 1644 (1644-1663). https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12121644
   
  Vrij, A., Granhag, P.A., Leal, S., Fisher, R. P., Kleinman, S. M., & Ashkenazi, T. (2023). The present and future of verbal lie detection. Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Law (D. DeMatteo & K. C. Scherr, Eds.)  Oxford University Press. New York. pp.565-582. doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197649138.013.33
   
  Vrij, A., Leal, S., Deeb, H., & Fisher, R. P. (2023). Eliciting veracity differences through a general memory recall test. International Journal of Forensic Research, 4(1), 179-187. Doi: 10.33140/IJFR.04.01.03
   
  Vrij, A., Leal, S., Deeb, H., & Fisher, R.P. (2023) Verbal Veracity Indicators and the Efficacy of Countermeasures in Three Non-WEIRD Populations. Journal of Psychology & Behavior Research, 5 (1), 34-63. doi:10.22158/jpbr.v5n1p34 2023   

  Vrij, A., Leal, S., & Fisher, R. P. (2023). Interviewing to Detect Lies About Opinions: The Devil’s Advocate Approach. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 10(12). 245-252.
   
  Wylie, K. & Evans, J.R. (2023). Investigating the utility of Cognitive Interview mnemonics among non-native English speakers. Psychology of Language and Communication, 27, 226-255. doi: 10.58734/plc-2023-0012

• 2022 Publications

  Arndorfer, A., & Charman, S. D. (2022). Assessing eyewitness identification confidence assessment methods. Psychology, Public Police, and Law. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000348

  Ashkenazi, T., & Fisher, R. P. (2022). Field test of the cognitive interview to enhance eyewitness and victim memory in intelligence investigations of terrorist attacks. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.11 (2). 200 – 208. doi.org/10.1037/h0101871 

  Charman, S.D., & Shambaugh, L. (2022). Towards a system variable approach to improving the quality of alibi evidence. In J. Behl & M. Kienzle (Eds.), Alibis and Corroborators: Psychological, Criminological, and Legal Perspectives. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95663-9_1 

  Charman, S. D., Shambaugh, L. J., Cahill, B. S., & Molinaro, P. F. (2022). The ability to infer witness accuracy from high-confidence lineup identifications is undermined by the appearance-change instruction and target appearance change. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000368

  Evans, J.R., Dawson, H.R., Chae, H., Goldfarb, D., Fisher, R.P., Dianiska, R., Daneshbodi, A. & Meissner, C.A. (2022). Enhancing the effectiveness of contact tracing interviews: A randomized controlled experiment of an enhanced cognitive interview protocol.  American Journal of Infection Control, 50, 631-637. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2021.12.015

  Goldfarb, D., Goodman, G. S., Wang, Y., Fisher, R. P., Vidales, D., Gonzalves, L. C., ... & Eisen, M. L. (2022). Adults’ Memory for a Maltreatment-Related Childhood Experience: Interview Protocols. Clinical Psychological Science, 21677026221081877.

  Hagsand, A.V., Evans, J.R., Pettersson, D., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2022). A survey of police officers encounters with sober, alcohol- and drug-intoxicated suspects in Sweden. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 28, 523-544. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2021.1929978

  Hagsand, A. V., Pettersson, D., Evans, J. R., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2022). Police survey: Procedures and prevalence of intoxicated witnesses and victims in Sweden. The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 14(1), 11-21. https://doi.org/10.5093/ejpalc2022a3

  Hagsand, A.V., Zajac, H., Lidell, L., Kelly, C.E., Schreiber Compo, N., & Evans, J. R. (2022). Police- suspect interactions and confession rates are affected by suspects’ alcohol and drug use status in low-stakes crime interrogations. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 983362. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.983362

  Hess,K., Wolfs, A.C.F., Goldfarb, D., Evans, J.R., Hayes, T., Granitur, C., & McClaney, S. (2022). The influence of gender and other extralegal factors on student loan bankruptcy decisions. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 28(1), 137-150. doi: 10.1037/law0000338

  Hyman Gregory, A., Wolfs, A., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2022). Witness/Victim Interviewing: A Survey of Real-World Investigators’ Training and Practices. Psychology, Crime and Law. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2043312

  Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., Wolfs, A., Polanco, K., Goldstein, N.E.S., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2022). Alcohol intoxication’s detrimental impact on facets of Miranda comprehension.Law and Human Behavior, 46, 264-276. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000490

  Pérez Campos Mayoral. E., Langer. A. A., & Fisher R. P. (2022). Técnicas destacadas de entrevista e interrogatorio. Enfoque en entrevista cognitiva. En E. Pérez Campos Mayoral. R. Martínez Helmes. M. A. Ríos Allier. J. A. Gómez Guerrero. J. A Mayoral Vásquez (Eds.), Investigación psicolegal, criminológica y biomédica del delito (1ª edición., pp. 231-256) Corporativo Intermédica, S.A. de C.V. ISBN: 978-607-9061-84-5.

  Vrij, A., Fisher, R. P., & Leal, S. (2022). How researchers can make verbal lie detection more attractive for practitioners. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. Vrij, A., Fisher, R. P., & Leal, S. (2022). How researchers can make verbal lie detection more attractive for practitioners. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 28 (4), 546-559. doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2035842   

  Vrij, A., Leal, S., Mann, S., Vernham, Z., Dalton, G., Serok-Jeppa, O., Rozmann, N., Nahari, G., & Fisher, R. P., (2021). “Please tell me all you remember”: A comparison between British’ and Arab’ interviewees’ free narrative performance and its implications for lie detection.  Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 4 (28), 546-559 DOI:10.1080/13218719.2020.1805812

  Vrij, A., Leal, S., Deeb, H., Castrod, C., Fisher, R. P., Manna, S., Joc, E., & Alamie, N.H., (2022). The effect of using countermeasures in interpreter-absent and interpreter-present interviews. The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 14(2), 53-72. doi.org/10.5093/ejpalc2022a6.

  Wolfs, A. C. F., Sneyd, D., Vallano, J., Schreiber Compo, N., & Reinoso, L. (2022). The effects of building and maintaining rapport on cooperative mock eyewitness recall. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1586

• 2021 Publications

  Carol, R. N., Kieckhaefer, J. M., Johnson, J., Peek, J. E., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2021). Being a good witness: The roles of benevolence and working memory capacity in rapport’s effect on eyewitness memory. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12781

  Dodier, O., Ginet, M.,  Teissedre, F., Verkampt, F., & Fisher, R. P. (2021). Using the Cognitive Interview to Recall Real-world Emotionally Stressful Experiences: Road Accidents.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35, 1099-1105.

  Fisher, R. P. (2021). On the real-world benefits and costs of assessing confidence of suspects and fillers in lineups: Commentary on Brewer & Doyle (2021) Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10, 205-207.

  Fisher, R. Powell, M. B., & Dawson, H. R. (2021). Inconsistency, omissions, and confidence as indicators of the accuracy of sexual assault victims’ recollections. In N. Deslauriers-Varin and C. Bennell (Eds.) Criminal Investigations of Sexual Offenses: Techniques and Challenges. Cham, Switzerland: Springer (pp. 133-145).

  Flowe, H. & Schreiber Compo, N. (2021). Commentary: The lack of robust evidence for the effects of alcohol on false memory. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.04.029
   
  Kramer, H. J., Goldfarb, D., Tashjian, S. M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). Dichotomous thinking about social groups: Learning about one group can activate opposite beliefs about another group. Cognitive Psychology, 129, 101408.
   
  Mattes, K., Popova, V., & Evans, J.R. (2021). Deception detections in politics: Can voters tell when politicians are lying? Political Behavior. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09747-1
   
  Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Polanco, K., & Hagsand, A.V. (2021). No evidence that low levels of intoxication at both encoding and retrieval impact scores on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale. Psychopharmacology, 238, 1633-1644. doi: 10.1007/s00213-021-05797-9

  Molinaro, P., Charman, S. D., & Wylie, B. (2021). Pre-identification confidence is related to eyewitness lineup identification accuracy across heterogeneous encoding conditions. Law and Human Behavior. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000452

  Shaffer, S.A., Schreiber Compo, N., Klemfuss, J.Z., Mejias, J. & Peplak, J. (2021). Law enforcement investigation of non-sexual child abuse: Physical abuse, neglect, and Abusive Head Trauma. International Journal of Evidence and Proof. doi.org/10.1177/13657127211002284

  Vrij, A., Deeb, H., Leal, S., Granhag, P-A, & Fisher, R. P. (2021). Plausibility: A Verbal Cue to Veracity Worth Examining? European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context. 13, 47-53.
   
  Vrij, A., & Fisher, R. P. (2021). Detecting Deception. Chapter in Making an Impact on Policing and Crime. Eds: C. Stott, B. Bradford, M. Radburn, & L. Savigar-Shaw. London: Routledge: Taylor & Francis (pp. 105-124).
   
  Vrij, A., Leal, S., Mann, S., Vernham, Z., Dalton, G., Serok-Jeppa, O., Rozmann, N., Nahari, G., & Fisher, R. P., (2021). “Please tell me all you remember”: A comparison between British’ and Arab’ interviewees’ free narrative performance and its implications for lie detection.  Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. doi:10.1080/13218719.2020.1805812
   
  Vrij, A., Mann, S., Leal, S., & Fisher, R. P. (2021). Combining verbal veracity assessment techniques to distinguish truth tellers from lie tellers. The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context. 13, 9-10.

• 2020 Publications

  Barton, A., McLaney, S., & Stephens, D. (2020). Targeted interventions for violence among Latinx youth: A systematic review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 53, 101434. doi:10.1016/j.avb.2020.101434

  Evans, J.R., Shaffer, S.A., & Walsh, D. (2020). Interpreters in Investigative Interviewing Contexts. In R. Bull & I. Blandon-Gitlin (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Legal and Investigative Psychology (pp. 133-148). New York: Routledge.

  Goldfarb, D., Goodman, G., Gonzalves, L., Gonzales, A., Wang, Y. Wu, Y., Vidales, D. (2020). The accuracy of adults’ long-term memory for child sexual abuse. In M. Miller & B. Bornstein (Eds.), Advances in Psychology and Law, Volume 5. Springer. 

  Goldfarb, D., & Mindthoff, A. (2020). Often but not always: When does age at the time of event predict memory for sexual violence? In J. D. Pozzulo, E. Pics, & C. Sheahan (Eds.), Memory and Sexual Misconduct: Psychological Research for Criminal Justice. Taylor Francis.
   
  Goodman, G. S., Harris, L., Goldfarb, D. A., & Wang, Y. (2020). Children, race, and psychology: We have no time to lose. In Stevenson, M.C., Bottoms, B.L., Burke, K.C. (Eds.),  The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law, and Public Policy. Oxford University Press.

  Leal, S., Vrij, A., Deeb, H., Hudson, C., Capuozzo, P., & Fisher, R. P. (2020). Verbal cues to deceit when lying through omitting information. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25, 279-294.

  Matuku, K., & Charman, S. D. (2020). Enhancing innocent suspects’ memories for corroborating alibi evidence. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 26, 442–454. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000264

  Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., Perez, G., Woestehoff, S.A., Olaguez, A.P., Klemfuss, J.Z., Vallano, J.P., Woody, W.D., Normile, C.J., Scherr, K.C., Carlucci, M.E., Carol, R.N., Hayes, T., Meissner, C.A., Michael, S.W., Russano, M.B., & Stocks, E.L. (2020). Juror perceptions of intoxicated suspects' interrogation-related behaviors. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 47, 222-246. doi: 10.1177/0093854819888962

  Mindthoff, A., Goldfarb, D., & Behre, K. (2020) How social science can help us understand why family courts discount women’s testimony in intimate partner violence cases. Family Court Review, 53, 243-264.

  Mindthoff, A., Malloy, L. C., & Höhs, J. (2020). Mock jurors’ perceptions and case decisions following a juvenile interrogation: Investigating the role of interested adults and confession type. Law & Human Behavior, 44, 209-222. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000371

  Priolo Filho, S. R., Goldfarb, D., Zibetti, M. R., & Aznar-Blefari, C. (2020). Brazilian child protection professionals’ resilient behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Child Abuse & Neglect, 110, 104701.
   
  Sneyd, D., Schreiber Compo, N., Rivard, J., Pena, M., Stoiloff, S. & Hernandez, G. (2020). Quality of laypersons‘ assessment of forensically relevant stimuli. Journal of Forensic Sciences. doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14495

  Vallano, J.P., Pickel, K.L., & Shambaugh, L.J. (2020). Legal Perspectives on Historical Misconduct Cases: Issues With Civil and Criminal Cases. In J. Pozzulo, E. Pica, & C. Sheahan (Eds.), Memory and Sexual Misconduct: Psychological Research for Criminal Justice (pp. 174-196). Routledge.

  Vrij, A., & Fisher, R. P. (2020) Unravelling the misconception about deception and nervous behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-8. doi: 10-3389/fpsyg.2020.01377

  Vrij, A., Leal, S., Fisher, R.P., Mann, S., Deeb, H., Jo, E., Campos, C. C., Hamzeh, S. (2020). The efficacy of using countermeasures in a Model Statement interview. The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 12, 23-34

  Vrij, A., Mann, S., Leal, S.,. Fisher, R. P., & Deeb, H. (2020). Sketching while narrating as a tool to detect deception. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 628-642. doi: 10.1002/acp.3646

• 2019 Publications

  Riggenbach, M. R., Weiser, J. N., Mosley, B. E., Hipskind, J. J., Wireman, L. E., Hess, K. L., Duffy, T. J., Handel, J. K., Kaschalk, M. G., Reneau, K. E., Rorabaugh, B. R., Norrholm, S. D., Jovanovic, T., & Zoladz, P. R. (2019). Immediate pre-learning stress enhances baseline startle response and fear acquisition in a fear-potentiated startle paradigm. Behavioural brain research, 371, 111980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.111980 

  Goldfarb, D., Goodman, G. S., Larson, R. P., Eisen, M., & Qin, J.J. (2019). Long-term memory in adults exposed to childhood violence: Remembering genital contact nearly 20 years later. Clinical Psychological Science, 7, 381-39.

  Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Carol, R.N.,Nichols-Lopez, K., Holness, H., & Furton, K.G. (2019). The impact of alcohol intoxication on witness suggestibility immediately and after a delay. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33, 358-369.  doi: 10.1002/acp.3502

  Mindthoff, A., Hagsand, A.V., Schreiber Compo, N., & Evans, J.R. (2019). Does alcohol loosen the tongue? Intoxicated persons' willingness to report transgressions or criminal behavior carried out by themselves or others. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33, 414-425. doi: 10.1002/acp.3480

  Mosser, A.E. & Evans, J.R. (2019). Increasing the number of contacts generated during contact tracing interviews. Memory, 27, 495-506. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1529247

  Charman, S. D., Matuku, K., & Mook, A. (2019) Non‐blind Lineup Administration Biases Administrators’ Interpretations of Ambiguous Witness Statements and Their Perceptions of the Witness. Applied Cognitive Psychology. doi:10.1002/acp.3579

  Dickinson, J., Schreiber Compo, N.,Carol, R.N., McCauley, M. & Schwartz, B. (Eds.) (2019). Evidence-based investigative interviewing. Routledge, NY.

  Altman, C., McQuiston, D.,& Schreiber Compo, N. (2019). How Elevated BAC Level and Identification Format Affect Eyewitness Memory: A Field Study.Applied Cognitive Psychology. doi:10.1002/acp.3535

  Altman, C., Schreiber Compo, N., Hagsand, A.V., & Evans, J.R. (2019). State of intoxication: A review of the effects of alcohol on witnesses’ memory. In J. Dickinson, N. Schreiber Compo, R.N., Carol, M. McCauley & B. Schwartz (Eds.). Evidence-based investigative interviewing: Applying Cognitive Principles (pp. 74-92). New York: Routledge.

  Charman, S. D., Douglass, A., & Mook, A. (2019). Cognitive bias in the legal system. In N. Brewer (Ed.), Law and Psychology. New York: Guilford Press.

  Charman, S. D., Matuku, K., & Mosser, A. (2019). The psychology of alibis. In M. Miller & B. Bornstein (Eds.), Advances in Psychology and Law. Switzerland: Springer Nature.

  Goldfarb, D.,Tashjian, S., Goodman, G. S, Bederian-Gardner, D., Hobbs, S., Ogle, C., Bakanosky, S., Narr, R. K., Chae, Y., & NYTD/CYTD Research Group (2019). After child maltreatment: The importance of voice for youth in foster care. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance Online Publication.

  Levine, M., Wallach, L., Levine, D., & Goldfarb, D. (2019). Psychological problems, social issues, and law (3rd ed). Minneapolis, MN: West Academic Publishing.

  Mosser, A.E. & Evans, J.R. (2019). From the police station to the hospital bed: Using the Cognitive Interview to enhance epidemiologic interviewing. In J. Dickinson, N. Schreiber Compo, R.N., Carol, M. McCauley & B. Schwartz (Eds.). Evidence-based investigative interviewing: Applying Cognitive Principles (pp. 93-115). New York: Routledge.

  Schreiber Compo, N., Vallano, J., Rivard, J., Hagsand, A, Pena, M., & Altman, C. (2019). Methods of studying eyewitness memory. In H. Otani & B. L. Schwartz (Eds.), Research Methods in Human Memory (pp. 253-266). London, UK, Routledge.

• 2018 Publications

  Carol, R.N. & Schreiber Compo, N. (2018). The effect of encoding duration on implicit and explicit eyewitness memory. Consciousness and Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.02.004

  Vredeveldt, A., & Charman, S. D., Den Blanken, A., & Hooydonk, M. (2018). Effects of cannabis on eyewitness memory: A field study. Applied Cognitive Psychology. doi: 10.1002/acp.3414

  Charman, S. D., Carol, R., & Schwartz, S.L. (2018). The effect of biased lineup instructions on witness identification confidence. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32, 287-297. doi: 10.1002/acp.3401.

  Altman, C., Schreiber Compo, N., McQuiston, D., Hagsand, A., & Cervera, J. (2018). Witnesses’ memory for events and faces under elevated levels of intoxication. Memory. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1445758

  Shaffer, S.A., & Evans, J.R. (2018). Interpreters in law enforcement contexts: Practices and preferences according to investigators. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32, 150-162. doi: 10.1002/acp.3388

  Mindthoff, A, Evans, J.R., Perez, G.,Woestehoff, S.A., Olaguez, A.P., Klemfuss, J.Z., Normile, C.J., Scherr, K.C., Carlucci, M.E., Carol, R.N., Meissner, C.A., Michael, S.W., Russano, M.B., Stocks, E.L., Vallano, J.P., & Woody, W.D. (2018). Potential jurors’ perceptions of interrogations and confessions: Are jurors finally believing in false confessions? Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 24, 430-448. doi: 10.1037/law0000182

• 2017 Publications

  Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Carol, R.N., Schwartz, B.L., Holness, H., Rose, S., & Furton, K.G. (2017). Alcohol intoxication and metamemory: Little evidence that moderate intoxication impairs metacognitive monitoring processes. Applied Cognitive Psychology. doi: 10.1002/acp.3373

  Charman, S. D., Reyes, A., Villalba, D., & Evans, J.R. (2017). The (un)reliability of alibi corroborators: Failure to recognize faces of briefly-encountered strangers puts innocent suspects at risk. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 35, 18-36. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2264

  Rivard, J. & Schreiber Compo, N. (2017). Self-reported current practices in child forensic interviewing: Training, tools, and pre-interview preparation. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 35, 253-268. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2290

  Charman, S. D., Kavetski, M., & Hirn Mueller, D. (2017). Cognitive bias in the legal system: Police officers evaluate ambiguous evidence in a belief-consistent manner. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 193-202. doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.02.001

  Evans, J.R., Pimentel, P.S., Pena, M.M. & Michael, S.W. (2017). The ability to detect false statements as a function of the type of statement and the language proficiency of the statement provider. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 23, 290-300. doi: 10.1037/law0000127

  Pena, M. M., Klemfuss, J. Z., Loftus, E. F., & Mindthoff, A. (2017, October 23). The Effects of Exposure to Differing Amounts of Misinformation and Source Credibility Perception on Source Monitoring and Memory Accuracy. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cns0000137

• 2016 Publications

  Charman, S. D., Carbone, J., Kekesie, S., & Villalba, D. (2016). Evidence evaluation and evidence integration in legal decision-making: Order of evidence presentation as a moderator of context effects. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 214-225.

  Leins, D., & Charman, S. D. (2016). Schema reliance and innocent alibi generation. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 21, 111-126. doi: 10.1111/lcrp.12035

  Charman, S. D., & Quiroz, V. (2016). Blind sequential lineup administration reduces both false identifications and confidence in those identifications. Law and Human Behavior, 40, 477-487. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000197

  Schreiber, N., *Carol, R.N., *Evans, J.E., *Pimentel, P., Nichols-Lopez, K., Holness, H., Rose, S., & Furton, K. (2017). Witness memory and alcohol. The effects of state-dependent recall. Law and Human Behavior, 41, 202-215. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000224.

• 2015 Publications

  Klemfuss, J.Z. (2014). Differential contributions of language skills to children’s episodic recall. Journal of Cognition and Development. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2014.952415

  Klemfuss, J.Z., Quas, J.A., & Lyon, T.D. (2014). Attorneys’ questions and children’s productivity in child sexual abuse criminal trials. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/acp.3048

  Evans, J.R., Houston, K.A., Meissner, C.A., Ross, A.B., LaBianca, J.R., Woestehoff, S.A., & Kleinman, S.M. (2014). An empirical evaluation of intelligence-gathering interrogation techniques from the United States Army Field Manual. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1002/acp.3065

  Evans, J.R., & Michael, S.W. (2014). Detecting deception in non-native English speakers. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28, 226-237. doi: 10.1002/acp.2990

  Houston, K. A., Meissner, C. A. & Evans, J.R. (2014). Psychological processes that distinguish true and false confessions. In R. Bull’s (Ed.), Investigative Interviewing (pp. 19-34). New York: Springer.

  Kelly, C.E., Redlich, A.D., Evans, J.R., & Meissner, C.A. (2014). Meta-analysis of the interview and interrogation literature. In Gerben Bruinsma & David Weisburd (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York, NY: Springer.

  Fisher, R. P., Schreiber Compo, N., Rivard, J., & Hirn, D. (2014). Interviewing Witnesses. In T. Perfect & S. Lindsay (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Applied Memory. SAGE Press. Los Angeles: SAGE (pp. 559-578).

  Hope, L., Gabbert, F., Fisher, R. P., & Jamieson, K. (2014). Protecting and enhancing eyewitness memory: The impact of an initial recall attempt on performance in an investigative interview. Applied Cognitive Psychology. DOI: 10.11002/acpp.2984

  Malloy, Quas, Lyon, Ahorn (2014). Disclosing adult wrongdoing: Maltreated and non-maltreated children's expectations and preferences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 124, 78-96.

  Vallano, J.P. & Schreiber Compo, N. (in press). Rapport-building with cooperative witnesses and criminal suspects: A theoretical and empirical review. Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law.

  Hirn Mueller, D., Schreiber Compo, N., Molina, J., Byron, A., & Pimentel, P. (in press). Productive and counter-productive interviewing techniques: Do law enforcement investigators know the difference? Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law.

  Vallano, J.P., Evans, J.R., Kieckhaefer, J.M., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2015). Rapport-building during witness and suspect interviews: A survey of law enforcement. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29, 369-380. doi: 10.1002/acp.3115

  Rivard, J., Pena, M. & Schreiber Compo (2016). ‘Blind’ interviewing: Is ignorance bliss? Memory.

  Hirn Mueller, D., Schreiber Compo, N., Molina, J., Bryon, A. & Pimentel, P. (2015). Best practice and problematic investigative interviewing techniques: Do police interviewers know the difference? Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law, 21, 295–308.

• 2014 Publications

  Klemfuss, J.Z. (2014). Differential contributions of language skills to children’s episodic recall. Journal of Cognition and Development. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2014.952415

  Klemfuss, J.Z., Quas, J.A., & Lyon, T.D. (2014). Attorneys’ questions and children’s productivity in child sexual abuse criminal trials. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/acp.3048

  Evans, J.R., Houston, K.A., Meissner, C.A., Ross, A.B., LaBianca, J.R., Woestehoff, S.A., & Kleinman, S.M. (2014). An empirical evaluation of intelligence-gathering interrogation techniques from the United States Army Field Manual. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1002/acp.3065

  Evans, J.R., & Michael, S.W. (2014). Detecting deception in non-native English speakers. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28, 226-237. doi: 10.1002/acp.2990

  Houston, K. A., Meissner, C. A. & Evans, J.R. (2014). Psychological processes that distinguish true and false confessions. In R. Bull’s (Ed.), Investigative Interviewing (pp. 19-34). New York: Springer.

  Kelly, C.E., Redlich, A.D., Evans, J.R., & Meissner, C.A. (2014). Meta-analysis of the interview and interrogation literature. In Gerben Bruinsma & David Weisburd (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York, NY: Springer.

  Fisher, R. P., Schreiber Compo, N., Rivard, J., & Hirn, D. (2014). Interviewing Witnesses. In T. Perfect & S. Lindsay (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Applied Memory. SAGE Press. Los Angeles: SAGE (pp. 559-578).

  Hope, L., Gabbert, F., Fisher, R. P., & Jamieson, K. (2014). Protecting and enhancing eyewitness memory: The impact of an initial recall attempt on performance in an investigative interview. Applied Cognitive Psychology. DOI: 10.11002/acpp.2984

  Malloy, Quas, Lyon, Ahorn (2014). Disclosing adult wrongdoing: Maltreated and non-maltreated children's expectations and preferences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 124, 78-96.

  Vallano, J.P. & Schreiber Compo, N. (in press). Rapport-building with cooperative witnesses and criminal suspects: A theoretical and empirical review. Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law.

• 2013 Publications

  Klemfuss, J.Z., Milojevich, H.M., Yim, I.S., Rush, E., & Quas, J.A. (2013). Stress at encoding, context at retrieval, and children’s narrative content. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116(3), 693-706. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.07.009

  Kieckhaefer, J., Schreiber Compo, N. & Vallano, J.P. (2013). Examining the positive effects of rapport building: When and why does rapport building benefit adult eyewitness memory? Memory, DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.864313

  Fisher, R. P., Vrij, A., & Leins, D. A. (2013) Does testimonial inconsistency indicate memory inaccuracy and deception? Beliefs, Empirical Research, and. In B.S.Cooper, D. Griesel, & M Ternes (Eds.) Applied issues in investigative interviewing, eyewitness memory, and credibility assessment. New York: Springer (pp. 173-189).

  Charman, S. D. (2013). The forensic confirmation bias: A problem of evidence integration, not just evidence evaluation. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2, 56-58.

  Malloy, Brubacher, & Lamb (2013). "Because she's the one who listens": Children discuss disclosure recipients in forensic interviews. Child Maltreatment, 18, 245-251.

  Kieckhaefer, J., Schreiber Compo, N. & Vallano, J.P. (2013). Examining the positive effects of rapport building: When and why does rapport building benefit adult eyewitness memory? Memory.DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2013.864313

  Maloy, Shulman, & Cauffman (2013). Interrogations, confessions, and guilty please among serious adolescent offenders. Law and Human Behavior.

  Leins, D., & Charman, S. D. (in press; published online Dec 2013). Innocent alibi generation and schema use. Legal and Criminological Psychology. doi: 10.1111/lcrp.12035

  Molinaro, P., Arndorfer, A., & Charman, S. D. (2013). Appearance-change instruction effects on eyewitness lineup identification accuracy are not moderated by amount of appearance change. Law and Human Behavior, 37, 432-440. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000049

• 2012 Publications

  Klemfuss, J.Z. & Ceci, S.J. (2012). Legal and psychological perspectives on children’s competence to testify in court. Developmental Review, 32, 268-286. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2012.06.005 September

  Schreiber Compo, N., Evans, J.R., Carol, R., Villalba, D., Ham, L., Garcia, T., & Rose, S. (2012). Intoxicated witnesses: Better than their reputation? Law and Human Behavior, 36 (2), 77-86.

  Schreiber Compo, N., Hyman Gregory, A. R., & Fisher, R.P. (2012). Interviewing Behaviors in Police Investigators: A field study of a current U.S. sample. Psychology, Crime and Law, 18(3-4), 359-375.