Haley Dawson
Graduate Student
Program: Legal Psychology
Haley graduated from the University of Michigan-Flint with her BA in Psychology and BS in Biology in 2017. She entered the Legal Psychology PhD program at FIU in 2019 working under Dr. Ron Fisher and completed her Master's in Experimental Psychology in 2022. She is currently a DYF Fellow, completing her dissertation on witness inconsistencies with Dr. Nadja Schreiber Compo (Spring 2025).
Haley has served as the legal psychology representative for the psychology department, president of the Psychology Graduate Student Association, and Graduate Senator in the Student Government Association.
Her research interests include investigative interviewing, eyewitness memory, memory improvement, best-practices, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Specifically, she has worked on improving contact tracing interviews on and NSF RAPID grant, exploring the benefit of model statements in witness interviews, the impact of belief and disbelief on witness statements, the experiences, challenges, and training needs of sexual assault nurse examiners, and the role of bias in forensic science.