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CURRICULUM VITAE

CHRISTIAN AUGUST MEISSNER

CONTACT INFORMATION Law & Social Sciences Program Email: cmeissne@nsf.gov

National Science Foundation Tel: 703-292-7808

4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 995 Fax: 703-292-9195

Arlington, Virginia 22230

EDUCATION Ph.D. Cognitive & Behavioral Sciences, Florida State University (2001);

The influence of perceptual learning in memory for faces: A process-tracing approach

to investigating the own-race bias.

M.S. Cognitive & Behavioral Sciences, Florida State University (1999);

Self-generated misinformation: The influence of retrieval processes in verbal overshadowing.

B.A. Psychology, Pfeiffer University (1996; summa cum laude).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2010 – Present Visiting Scientist & Program Director, Law & Social Sciences Program,

National Science Foundation.

2007 – Present Associate Professor, Departments of Psychology & Criminal Justice,

University of Texas at El Paso.

2009 Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for Creative Technologies,

University of Southern California.

2005 – 2007 Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology & Criminal Justice,

University of Texas at El Paso.

2001 – 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology,

Florida International University.

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CONTRACTS & GRANTS 2010 – 2011 U.S. Department of Justice ($2,250,295). Intelligence interviewing and

interrogation. (Principle Investigator. Center funding with subprojects to:

Florida International University, Göteborg University, Roger Williams

University, University of Albany, University of Portsmouth, and Applied

Research Associates. Note: Year 1 of 5-year, $11.5 million research contract.)

2010 – 2011 U.S. Department of Homeland Security ($80,000). The importance of

photographic, target, and perceiver factors in the perceptual identification of

own- and other-race/ethnicity persons. (Principle Investigator. Subproject of

the National Center for Border Security & Immigration, University of

Texas at El Paso.)

2009 – 2010 National Policing Improvement Agency ($49,919). Interview and

Interrogation Methods: Effects on Confession Rate, Quality of Information

Elicited, and Accuracy of Credibility Assessment. (Principal Investigator in

collaboration with Allison Redlich at the University at Albany, SUNY.)

2008 – 2011 U.S. Department of Defense ($465,523). Phase 2: Development of Evidence-

Based Methods that Improve the Diagnostic Value of Interrogative Information.

(Principal Investigator in collaboration with Melissa Russano at Roger

Williams University.)

2008 – 2009 U.S. Department of Defense ($100,000). Intelligent Tutoring for Deception

Detection and Investigative Interviewing. (Co-Principal Investigator in

collaboration with Mike Schneider & Chad Lane at the Institute for Creative

Technologies, University of Southern California.)

2007 – 2009 U.S. Department of Defense ($191,390). Phase 1: Development of Evidence-

Based Methods that Improve the Diagnostic Value of Interrogative Information.

(Principal Investigator in collaboration with Melissa Russano at Roger

Williams University.)

2006 – 2007 American Psychological Association Science Directorate Scientific

Conferences Grant ($8,000). UTEP Interrogations & Confessions Conference.

(Co-Principal Investigator with G. Daniel Lassiter at Ohio University.)

2003 – 2007 National Science Foundation ($196,977). #SES-0317368: Skilled Perceptual-

Memory and the Cross-Race Effect. (Principal Investigator.)

2002 – 2003 FIU Foundation Research Grant ($10,518). Cross-Racial Identification.

(Principal Investigator.)

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GRADUATE STUDENT / POST-DOCTORAL TRAINING GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS 2009 – 2011 Jacqueline R. Evans, Ph.D., Intelligence Community Research Post-

Doctoral Fellowship ($239,484). Scientific Development of a Psychologically-

Based Credibility Assessment Tool (PBCAT).

2006 – 2010 Kyle J. Susa, Graduate Research Fellowship, U.S. Department of

Homeland Security ($82,800). The Impact of Training on the Cross-Race Effect

in Memory for Faces.

2002 – 2006 Fadia M. Narchet, Predoctoral Research Fellowship, National Institute

of General Medical Science ($100,000). Hostile and Benevolent Prejudice:

A New Perspective.

AWARDS 2011 American Psychology-Law Society Book Award for Lassiter & Meissner

(2010, Eds.), Police Interrogations and False Confessions: Current Research,

Practice, and Policy Recommendations (American Psychological Association)

2008 Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Excellence in Psychology and Law,

American Psychology-Law Society and American Academy of Forensic

Psychology.

2008 & 2010 Outstanding Research Award, University of Texas at El Paso.

2006 Young Investigator Award, University of Texas at El Paso.

2003 MetLife Freedom Award, Florida International University.

2001 American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award (2nd Place).

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RESEARCH INTERESTS Interrogations & Confessions: the study of social and cognitive psychological factors that may

lead to a confession, including the diagnostic value of various interrogation methods,

the decision-making processes associated with a suspect’s decision to confess, and the

role of investigative biases in the use of coercive interrogation tactics.

Detection of Deception: the study of human lie detection, including factors that influence its

reliability and validity in the context of police investigations, the presence of truth

or lie biases that certain individuals may display in their detection performance, and

the efficacy of training programs leading to changes in discrimination accuracy and

response bias.

Memory for Faces & Eyewitness Identification: the study of social and cognitive psychological

factors that influence memory for human faces, including phenomena such as the

cross-race effect, verbal overshadowing, misinformation, perceptual distinctiveness,

lineup identification procedures, and the assessment of lineup fairness.

BOOKS, EDITED VOLUMES, & SPECIAL ISSUES Lassiter, G. D., Meissner, C. A., & Redlich, A. D. (under contract). False Confessions.

New York, NY: NYU Press.

Lassiter, G. D., & Meissner, C. A. (2010). Police Interrogations and False Confessions: Current

Research, Practice, and Policy Recommendations. Washington, DC: American

Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/12085-000

Bornstein, B. H., & Meissner, C. A. (2008). Basic and applied issues in eyewitness research:

A Münsterberg centennial retrospective. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 733-736.

doi:10.1002/acp.1478

Furton, K. G., & Meissner, C. A. (2005). Special issue on forensic science (Part 1). Canadian

Journal of Police & Security Services, 3, 3-4.

Meissner, C. A., & Furton, K. G. (2005). Special issue on forensic science (Part 2). Canadian

Journal of Police & Security Services, 3, 110-111.

Meissner, C. A., & Memon, A. (2002). Verbal overshadowing: A special issue exploring

theoretical and applied issues. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 869-872.

doi: 10.1002/acp.928

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JOURNAL ARTICLES Horgan, A. J., Russano, M. B., Meissner, C. A., & Evans, J. R. (in press). Minimization and

maximization techniques: Assessing the perceived consequences of confessing and

confession diagnosticity. Psychology, Crime, & Law.

Narchet, F. M., Meissner, C. A., & Russano, M. B. (in press). Modeling the influence of

investigator bias on the elicitation of true and false confessions. Law & Human Behavior.

doi:10.1007/s10979-010-9257-x

Evans, J. R., Meissner, C. A., Brandon, S. E., Russano, M. B., & Kleinman, S. M. (2010).

Criminal versus HUMINT interrogations: The importance of psychological science to

improving interrogative practice. Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 38, 215-249.

Kersten, A. W., Meissner, C. A., Lechuga, J., Schwartz, B. L., Albrechtsen, J. S., & Iglesias, A.

(2010). English speakers attend more strongly than Spanish speakers to manner of

motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 139, 638-653. doi:10.1037/a0020507

Marcon, J. L., Meissner, C. A., Freuh, M., Susa, K. J., & MacLin, O. H. (2010). Perceptual

identification and the cross-race effect. Visual Cognition, 18, 767-779.

doi:10.1080/13506280903178622

Memon, A., Meissner, C. A., & Fraser, J. (2010). The cognitive interview: A meta-analytic

review and study space analysis of the past 25 years. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law,

16, 340-372. doi:10.1037/a0020518.

Meissner, C. A., Hartwig, M., & Russano, M. B. (2010). The need for a positive psychological

approach and collaborative effort for improving practice in the interrogation room.

Law & Human Behavior, 34, 43-45. doi:10.1007/s10979-009-9205-9

Susa, K. J., Meissner, C. A., & de Heer, H. (2010). Modeling the role of social-cognitive

processes in the recognition of own- and other-race faces. Social Cognition, 28, 519-533.

doi:10.1521/soco.2010.28.4.523

Albrechtsen, J. S., Meissner, C. A., & Susa, K. J. (2009). Can intuition improve deception

detection performance? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1052-1055.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.05.017

Evans, J. R., Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2009). Cross-racial lineup identification:

The potential benefits of context reinstatement. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 15, 19-28.

doi:10.1080/10683160802047030

Marcon, J. L., Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2009). Assessing the influence of recollection

and familiarity in memory for own- and other-race faces. Psychonomic Bulletin &

Review, 16, 99-103. doi:10.3758/PBR.16.1.99

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Chiroro, P. M., Tredoux, C. G., Radaelli, S., & Meissner, C. A. (2008). Recognising faces

across continents: The effect of within-race variations on the own-race bias in face

recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 1089-1092. doi:10.3758/PBR.15.6.1089

Jackiw, L. B., Arbuthnott, K. D., Pfeifer, J. E., Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2008).

Examining the cross-race effect in lineup identification using Caucasian and First

Nations samples. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 40, 52-57.

doi:10.1037/0008-400x.40.1.52

Lane, S. M., & Meissner, C. A. (2008). A “middle road” approach to bridging the basic-

applied divide in eyewitness identification research. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22,

779-787. doi:10.1002/acp.1482

Meissner, C. A., Sporer, S. L., & Susa, K. J. (2008). A theoretical and meta-analytic review of

the relationship between verbal descriptions and identification accuracy in memory

for faces. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 20, 414-455.

doi:10.1080/09541440701728581

Neuschatz, J. S., Lawson, D. S., Swanner, J. K., Meissner, C. A., & Neuschatz, J. S. (2008).

The effects of accomplice witnesses and jailhouse informants on jury decision making.

Law & Human Behavior, 32, 137-149. doi:10.1007/s10979-007-9100-1

Haw, R. M., Dickinson, J. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2007). The phenomenology of carryover

effects between showup and lineup identification. Memory, 15, 117-127.

doi:10.1080/09658210601171672

Kassin, S. M., Leo, R. A., Meissner, C. A., Richman, K. D., Colwell, L. H., Leach, A-M., &

La Fon, D. (2007). Police interviewing and interrogation: A self-report survey of

police practices and beliefs. Law & Human Behavior, 31, 381-400.

doi:10.1007/s10979-006-9073-5

Corenblum, B., & Meissner, C. A. (2006). Recognition of faces of ingroup and outgroup

children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 93, 187-206.

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2005.09.001

Kassin, S. M., Meissner, C. A., & Norwick, R. J. (2005). “I’d know a false confession if I saw

one”: A comparative study of college students and police investigators. Law & Human

Behavior, 29, 211-228. doi: 10.1007/s10979-005-2416-9

MacLin, O. H., Meissner, C. A., & Zimmerman, L. A. (2005). PC_Eyewitness: A computerized

framework for the administration and practical application of research in eyewitness

psychology. Behavior Research Methods, 37, 324-334.

Meissner, C. A., Brigham, J. C., & Butz, D. A. (2005). Memory for own- and other-race faces:

A dual-process approach. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 545-567. doi:10.1002/acp.1097

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Meissner, C. A., Tredoux, C. G., Parker, J. F., & MacLin, O. H. (2005). Eyewitness decisions

in simultaneous and sequential lineups: A dual-process signal detection theory

analysis. Memory & Cognition, 33, 783-792.

Mitchell, T. L., Haw, R. M., Pfeifer, J. E., & Meissner, C. A. (2005). Racial bias in juror

decision-making: A meta-analytic review of defendant treatment. Law & Human

Behavior, 29, 621-637. doi: 10.1007/s10979-005-8122-9

Russano, M. B., Meissner, C. A., Narchet, F. M., & Kassin, S. M. (2005). Investigating true

and false confessions within a novel experimental paradigm. Psychological Science, 16,

481-486.

Schwartz, B. L., Meissner, C. A., Hoffman, M., Evans, S., & Frazier, L. D. (2004). Event

memory and misinformation effects in a gorilla. Animal Cognition, 7, 93-100.

doi: 10.1007/s10071-003-0194-7

Meissner, C. A., Brigham, J. C., & Pfeifer, J. E. (2003). Jury nullification: The influence of

judicial instruction on the relationship between attitudes and juridic decision-making.

Basic & Applied Social Psychology, 25, 243-254. doi: 10.1207/S15324834BASP2503_07

Meissner, C. A., & Russano, M. B. (2003). The psychology of interrogations and false

confessions: Research and recommendations. Canadian Journal of Police & Security

Services, 1, 53-64.

Meissner, C. A. (2002). Applied aspects of the instructional bias effect in verbal

overshadowing. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 911-928. doi: 10.1002/acp.918

Meissner, C. A., & Kassin, S. M. (2002). “He’s guilty!”: Investigator bias in judgments of

truth and deception. Law & Human Behavior, 26, 469-480. doi: 10.1023/A:1020278620751

Goodwin, K. A., Meissner, C. A., & Ericsson, K. A. (2001). Towards a model of false recall:

Experimental manipulation of encoding context and the collection of verbal reports.

Memory & Cognition, 29, 806-819.

Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2001). A meta-analysis of the verbal overshadowing effect

in face identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, 603-616. doi: 10.1002/acp.728

Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2001). Thirty years of investigating the own-race bias in

memory for faces: A meta-analytic review. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 7, 3-35.

doi: 10.1037/1076-8971.7.1.3

Meissner, C. A., Brigham, J. C., & Kelley, C. M. (2001). The influence of retrieval processes

in verbal overshadowing. Memory & Cognition, 29, 176-186.

Slone, A. E., Brigham, J. C., & Meissner, C. A. (2000). Social and cognitive factors affecting

the own-race bias in Whites. Basic & Applied Social Psychology, 22, 71-84.

doi:10.1207/15324830051036162

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Brigham, J. C., Meissner, C. A., & Wasserman, A. W. (1999). Applied issues in the

construction and expert assessment of photo lineups. Applied Cognitive Psychology,

13, S73-S92. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-0720(199911)13:1+<S73::AID-ACP631>3.3.CO;2-W

Brigham, J. C., Wasserman, A. W., & Meissner, C. A. (1999). Disputed eyewitness

identification evidence: Important legal and scientific issues. Court Review, 36, 12-25.

BOOK CHAPTERS, PROCEEDINGS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES, & BOOK REVIEWS Lane, H. C., Schneider, M., Michael, S. W., Albrechtsen, J. S., & Meissner, C. A. (2010).

Virtual humans with secrets: Learning to detect verbal cues to deception. In J. Kay &

V. Aleven (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring

Systems (pp. 144-154). Springer: Verlag.

Meissner, C. A., Russano, M. B., & Narchet, F. M. (2010). The importance of a laboratory

science for improving the diagnostic value of confession evidence. In G. D. Lassiter &

C. Meissner’s (Eds.), Police Interrogations and False Confessions: Current Research, Practice,

and Policy Recommendations (pp. 111-126). Washington, DC: APA.

doi: 10.1037/12085-007

Malpass, R. S., Ross, S. J., Meissner, C. A., & Marcon, J. L. (2009). The need for expert

psychological testimony on eyewitness identification. In B. Cutler’s (Ed.), Expert

Testimony on the Psychology of Eyewitness Identification (pp. 3-27). Kluwer Academic /

Plenum Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331974.003.001

Meissner, C. A., & Albrechtsen, J. S. (2009). Using science to separate myths from reality

in human deception detection: A review of Aldert Vrij’s (2008) Detecting Lies and Deceit:

Pitfalls and Opportunities (2nd Ed.). Legal & Criminological Psychology, 14, 344-346.

doi: 10.1348/135532509X442386

Meissner, C. A., Horgan, A. J., & Albrechtsen, J. S. (2009). False confessions. In R. Kocsis’

(Ed.), Applied Criminal Psychology: A Guide to Forensic Behavioral Sciences (pp. 191-212).

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, LTD.

Redlich, A. D., & Meissner, C. A. (2009). Techniques and controversies in the interrogation

of suspects: The artful practice versus the scientific study. In J. Skeem et al.’s (Eds.),

Psychological Science in the Courtroom: Controversies and Consensus (pp. 124-148).

Guilford Press.

Malpass, R. S., Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2008). Training of eyewitnesses. In B. Cutler’s

(Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology & Law, Vol. 2 (pp. 807-808). Sage publications.

Marcon, J. L., Meissner, C. A., & Malpass, R. S. (2008). Cross-race effect in eyewitness

identification. In B. Cutler’s (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology & Law, Vol. 1 (pp. 172-175).

Sage publications.

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Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2008). Accuracy of eyewitness descriptions. In B. Cutler’s

(Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology & Law, Vol. 1 (pp. 285-287). Sage publications.

Brigham, J. C., Bennett, L. B., Meissner, C. A., & Mitchell, T. L. (2007). The influence of race

on eyewitness memory. In R. Lindsay, D. Ross, J. Read, & M. Toglia, (Eds). Handbook of

Eyewitness Psychology: Memory for People (pp. 257-281), Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.

Meissner, C. A., & Albrechtsen, J. S. (2007). Interrogation and torture. 2007 Yearbook of Science

& Technology (pp. 125-127), New York: McGraw-Hill.

Meissner, C. A., Sporer, S. L., & Schooler, J. W. (2007). Person descriptions as eyewitness

evidence. In R. Lindsay, D. Ross, J. Read, & M. Toglia, (Eds). Handbook of Eyewitness

Psychology: Memory for People (pp. 3-34), Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.

Malpass, R. S., Zimmerman, L. A., Meissner, C. A., Ross, S. J., Rigoni, M. E., Topp, L. D.,

Pruss, N., Tredoux, C. T., & Leyva, J. M. (2005). Eyewitness memory and identification.

The San Antonio Defender, 7, 2-13.

Meissner, C. A., & Kassin, S. M. (2004). “You’re guilty, so just confess!”: Cognitive and

behavioral confirmation biases in the interrogation room. In D. Lassiter’s (Ed.),

Interrogations, Confessions, and Entrapment (pp. 85-106). Kluwer Academic / Plenum

Press.

Tredoux, C. G., Meissner, C. A., Malpass, R. S., & Zimmerman, L. A. (2004). Eyewitness

identification. In C. Spielberger’s (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology (pp. 875-887).

San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Barker, R. L., Scullin, M. H., & Meissner, C. A. (2011, March). Evidence of differential performance on

simultaneous and sequential lineups for individuals with autistic traits. Poster presented at the

International Congress of Psychology & Law, Miami, FL.

Dryer, J., Evans, J. R., Michael, S. W., & Meissner, C. A. (2011, March). Deception detection in non-

native English speakers. Poster presented at the International Congress of Psychology & Law,

Miami, FL.

Evans, J. R., Meissner, C. A., Russano, M. B., & Horgan, A. J. (2011, March). The elicitation of guilty

knowledge in intelligence interrogation settings: A novel experimental paradigm. Paper presented at

the International Congress of Psychology & Law, Miami, FL.

Meissner, C. A., Redlich, A. D., & Evans, J. R. (2011, March). A meta-analytic review of the influence of

accusatorial vs. information gathering interrogation methods. Paper presented at the International

Congress of Psychology & Law, Miami, FL.

Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2011, March). Cognitive processes governing the verbal description-

identification paradox. Paper presented at the International Congress of Psychology & Law,

Miami, FL.

Zimmerman, L. A., & Meissner, C. A. (2011, March). Field test of cognitive load interview techniques

in naturalistic military settings. Paper presented at the International Congress of Psychology &

Law, Miami, FL.

Redlich, A. D., & Meissner, C. A. (2010, Nov). A systematic review of interviewing and interrogation

techniques on eliciting confessions. Paper presented at the American Society of Criminology, San

Francisco, CA.

Meissner, C. A., Redlich, A. D., Evans, J. R., Bhatt, S., & Brandon, S. (2010, June). A systematic

comparison of inquisitorial and interrogatory interviewing styles. Paper presented at the

International Investigative Interviewing Research Group Conference, Norwegian Police

University College, Stavern, Norway.

Evans, J. R., & Meissner, C. A. (2010, June). Improving the diagnostic value of interrogative information and

judgments of credibility. Paper presented at the European Association of Psychology & Law

Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Evans, J. R., Meissner, C. A., & Russano, M. B. (2010, June). The effectiveness of inquisitorial and

accusatorial interrogation techniques at obtaining true and false confessions and information. Paper

presented at the European Association of Psychology & Law Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lane, H. C., Schneider, M., Michael, S. W., Albrechtsen, J. S., & Meissner, C. A. (2010, June). Virtual

humans with secrets: Learning to detect verbal cues to deception. Paper presented at the International

Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Pittsburgh, PA.

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Evans, J.R., Meissner, C.A., & Brandon, S. (2010, April). Development of the Psychologically-Based

Credibility Assessment Tool (PB-CAT). Poster presented at the IC Postdoctoral Research

Fellowship Program Colloquium, Tyson's Corner, VA.

Da Silva, C. S., Leach., A., Vrandtsidis, M., Meissner, C. A., & Kassin, S. M. (2010, March). Detecting

deception in second-language speakers. Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law Society

Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Horgan, A. J., Russano, M. B., Meissner, C. A., & Evans, J. R. (2010, March). “Should I just confess?”:

The perceived consequences of confessing and confession diagnosticity. Paper presented at the

American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Lane, H. C., & Meissner, C. A. (2010, March). Virtual humans with secrets: Learning to detect verbal cues to

deception. Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance,

Orlando, FL.

Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2010, March). The distinctiveness effect in fingerprint identification: How

the role of distinctiveness, information loss, and informational bias influence fingerprint identification.

Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Meissner, C. A., Redlich, A. D., Evans, J. R., Michael, S. W., & Camilletti, C. (2010, March). A meta-

analytic review of inquisitorial vs. accusatorial interrogative methods: Effects on confession rate

and credibility assessment accuracy. Paper presented at the National Police Improvement Agency

Conference, London, England.

Meissner, C. A., Russano, M. B., & Horgan, A. J. (2010, March). The diagnostic efficacy of inquisitorial

interrogative methods and their corollary benefit for credibility assessment. Paper presented at the

American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2010, March). Can we facilitate recognition performance and eliminate the

cross-race effect? The results are not promising... Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law

Society Conference, Vancouver, BC.

Meissner, C. A., & Evans, J. R. (2009, Sept). Improving the diagnostic value of interrogative information for

human intelligence purposes. HUMINT Conference, Ft. Huachuca, AZ.

Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2009, June). Mediating factors of cross-race face recognition. Paper

presented at the Inter-American Congress of Psychology, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Laub, C., Bornstein, B., Susa, K. J., Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2009, May). The effect of instructions

on the cross-race effect: Does the type of task matter? Paper presented at the Law & Society

Conference, Denver, CO.

Aguilar, R., Horgan, A. J., Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2009, March). What makes an alibi believable?:

Assessing true vs. false alibi statements. Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law Society

Conference, San Antonio, TX.

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Horgan, A. J., Russano, M. B., Meissner, C. A., Evans, J. R., & Michael, S. W. (2009, March). The ironic

effects of the perception of consequences on beliefs about confession. Poster presented at the American

Psychology-Law Society Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Kehn, A., Culhane, S. E., Hatz, J., & Meissner, C. A. (2009, March). Are two better than one? Assessing

the influence of collaborative judgments on deception detection performance. Paper presented at the

American Psychology-Law Society Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Memon, A., Fraser, J., & Meissner, C. A. (2009, March). The cognitive interview: A new meta-analysis

of published studies and a study space analysis. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law

Society Conference, San Antonio, TX.

Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2008, Nov). Perceptual identification of fingerprints: MDS 'fingerprint

space' and performance under manipulations of difficulty. Poster presented at the Psychonomic

Society Conference, Chicago, IL.

Meissner, C. A., Marcon, J. L., & Susa, K. J. (2008, Oct). Evaluating the contributions of recollection and

familiarity to the recognition of own- and other-race faces. Paper presented at ARMADILLO:

The Southwest Cognition Conference, El Paso, TX.

Meissner, C. A. (2008, Aug). Interrogation and credibility assessment: Utilizing technology to integrate

research and best practice. Paper presented at the Border Security Conference, University of Texas

at El Paso.

Meissner, C. A., & Marcon, J. L. (2008, May). Assessing the role of recollection in distinguishing own- and

other-race face recognition. Paper presented at the Association for Psychological Science

Conference, Chicago, IL.

Meissner, C. A. (2008, March). Recollecting own- and other-race faces. Paper presented at the

Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Performance, Orlando, FL.

Albrechtsen, J. S., Meissner, C. A., Horgan, A. J., Susa, K. J., & Kassin, S. M. (2008, March). Are

immediate judgments better at detecting deception than deliberative judgments? Paper presented at

the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.

Laub, C. E., Bornstein, B. H., Susa, K. J., Marcon, J. L., & Meissner C. A. (2008, March). Instructing

away the cross-race effect: Does timing matter? Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law

Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.

Marcon, J. L., Meissner, C. A., Susa, K. J., Frueh, M., & MacLin, O. H. (2008, March). Perceptual

identification and the cross-race effect in a visual search task. Paper presented at the American

Psychology-Law Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.

Rigoni, M. E., & Meissner, C. A. (2008, March). Is it time for a revolution in the interrogation room?

Empirically validating inquisitorial methods. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law

Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.

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Susa, K. J., Meissner, C. A., & de Heer, D. (2008, March). Temporal mediators of cross-race face

recognition. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.

Topp, L. D., & Malpass, R. S., & Meissner, C. A. (2008, March). An evaluation of decision making

strategies for simultaneous and sequential lineups. Paper presented at the American Psychology-

Law Society Conference, Jacksonville, FL.

Albrechtsen, J. S., Meissner, C. A., Horgan, A. J., Susa, K. J., & Kassin, S. M. (2007, July). Thin slicing

deceptive statements: Are intuitive responses more accurate at detecting deception than deliberate

responses? Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition

Conference, Lewiston, ME.

Horgan, A. J., Meissner, C. A., Albrechtsen, J. S. & Hosch, H. M. (2007, July). Autobiographical memory

and alibi generation: The effect of retrieval on alibi typology and precision. Poster presented at the

Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition Conference, Lewiston, ME.

Marcon, J. L., Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2007, July). Social recognition memory and the cross-race

effect: A dual-process memory perspective. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in

Memory & Cognition Conference, Lewiston, ME.

Meissner, C. A., Sporer, S. L., & Susa, K. J. (2007, July). A meta-analysis of the description identification

relationship in memory for faces. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory

& Cognition Conference, Lewiston, ME.

Topp, L. D., Meissner, C. A., & Gronlund, S. D. (2007, July). An evaluation of decision making strategies

for sequential lineups. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory &

Cognition Conference, Lewiston, ME.

Meissner, C. A. (2007, April). Dual-process theory and eyewitness memory: Is there room for both theory and

application? Paper presented at the UTEP Eyewitness Memory Conference, El Paso, TX.

Meissner, C. A., & Lane, S. M. (2007, March). Methodological fixation in eyewitness identification research:

A “middle of the road” approach to bridging the basic-applied divide. Paper presented at the Off the

Witness Stand: Using Psychology in the Practice of Justice Conference, New York, NY.

Meissner, C. A. (2006, Dec). Basic and applied aspects of the cross-race effect in memory for faces. Poster

presented at the American Psychological Association Science Leadership Conference.

Washington, DC.

Kersten, A. W., Meissner, C. A., Schwartz, B. L., Iglesias, A., & Albrechtsen, J. S. (2006, Nov). Effects of

linguistic context and age of exposure to English on attention to manner of motion. Paper presented at

the Psychonomic Society Conference, Houston, TX.

Susa, K. J., Sporer, S. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2006, Nov). What have we learned since Neil v. Biggers (1976)

about the description-identification accuracy relationship in eyewitness memory? Poster presented at

the Psychonomic Society Conference, Houston, TX.

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Caleo, S., Narchet, F.M., & Meissner, C. A. (2006, March). The presence and effects of pressure in the

interrogation room. Poster presented at the annual American Psychology-Law Society

Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Chiroro, P., Tredoux, C. G., & Meissner, C. A. (2006, March). The effect of within-race stimulus variation

and memory set size on the cross-race bias in face recognition. Paper presented at the annual

American Psychology-Law Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Evans, J. R., Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2006, March). The cross-race effect: Examining the

mitigating effect of several identification manipulations. Paper presented at the annual American

Psychology-Law Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Haw, R. M., & Meissner, C. A. (2006, March). A theoretical analysis of eyewitness identification: Dual-

process theory, signal detection theory, and eyewitness confidence. Paper presented at the annual

American Psychology-Law Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Jackiw, L. B., Arbuthnott, K. D., Pfeifer, J. E., Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2006, May). "They" all

look alike to me: Identifying the cross-race effect in a Canadian population. Poster presented at the

annual American Psychology-Law Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Leo, R.A., Kassin, S.M., Richman, K.D., Colwell, L.H., Leach, A., La Fon, D., & Meissner, C. A. (2006,

March). Police interviewing and interrogation: Toward a national self-report survey of police practices

and beliefs. Paper presented at the annual American Psychology-Law Society Conference, St.

Petersburg, FL.

MacLin, O. H., & Meissner, C. A. (2006, March). A collaborative project for the development and validation

of a computerized system to construct and administer police lineups: Project Waterloo. Paper presented

at the annual American Psychology-Law Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2006, March). Attorney perceptions of alibis. Poster presented at the

annual American Psychology-Law Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Narchet, F. M., Meissner, C. A., & Russano, M. B. (2006, March). From the hot seat: An interrogations

from the perspective of the suspect. Paper presented at the annual American Psychology-Law

Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Rigoni, M. E., Zimmerman, L. A., Albrechtsen, J. Shaw, M., & Meissner, C. A. (2006, March). The

contents and current application of the interrogation manuals used by federal intelligence agencies.

Poster presented at the annual American Psychology-Law Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Tredoux, C. G., MacLin, O. H., Meissner, C. A., & Schmidt, H. (2006, March). Similarity structures in

lineups and their relationship to lineup fairness and eyewitness identification accuracy. Paper presented at

the annual American Psychology-Law Society Conference, St. Petersburg, FL.

Marcon, J. L., Meissner, C. A., & Mitchell, T. L. (2005, Nov). Eyewitness memory for own- and other-race

faces: The mitigating effects of sequential presentation and conservative instructions. Poster presented

at the Psychonomic Society Conference, Toronto, OT.

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Jackiw, L., Arbuthnott, K., Pfeifer, J., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, June). They all look alike to me: Identifying

the cross-race effect in a Canadian population. Poster presented at the 15th Annual European

Conference on Psychology & Law, Vilnius, Lithuania.

MacLin, O. H., Meissner, C. A., & Zimmerman, L. A. (2005, May). Development of PC_Eyewitness: A

versatile modular computer program. Paper presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis,

Chicago, IL.

Caleo, S., Narchet, F. M., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, March). The effects of investigative biases and

confidence levels on confession rates. Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law Society

Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Coffman, K. A. J., Meissner, C. A., & Marcon, J. (2005, March). Detecting true and false alibis in a mock

crime paradigm. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Haw, R. M., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, March). A dual-process model of eyewitness identification: The role of

recollection and familiarity. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society

Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Meissner, C. A., Mitchell, T. L., & MacLin, O. H. (2005, March). Inversion and the cross-race effect: Are we

really “experts” with own-race faces? Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society

Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Mitchell, T. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, March). The influence of the cross-race effect on lineup

construction. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Narchet, F. M., Meissner, C. A., & Russano, M. B. (2005, March). Modeling the role of investigator bias

and interrogation techniques on the likelihood of confession. Paper presented at the American

Psychology-Law Society Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Narchet, F. M., Coffman, K. A., Russano, M. B., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, March). A qualitative analysis

of modern day police interrogation manuals. Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law

Society Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Reardon, M., Danielsen, E., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, March). Investigating juror perceptions of fingerprint

evidence in criminal cases. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference,

La Jolla, CA.

Russano, M. B., Narchet, F. M., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, March). Investigating the effects of presenting

false evidence on true and false confessions. Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law

Society Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Ulloa, D. M., Haw, R. M., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, March). Divided attention and the cross-race effect.

Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, La Jolla, CA.

Corenblum, B., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, Jan). Children's recognition accuracy for the faces of ingroup and

outgroup peers and adults. Paper presented at the Society for Personality & Social Psychology,

New Orleans, LA.

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Tredoux, C. G., Meissner, C. A., & Schmidt, H. (2005, Jan). Automated lineup construction: Calibrating

the relationship between similarity, lineup fairness and identification accuracy. Paper presented at the

Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

Narchet, F. M., Coffman, K. A., Russano, M. B., & Meissner, C. A. (2004, Nov). A qualitative analysis of

classic and modern day police interrogation manuals. Paper presented at the American Society of

Criminology Conference, Nashville, TN.

Russano, M. B., Narchet, F. M., & Meissner, C. A. (2004, Nov). The effectiveness of two police interrogation

techniques: Minimization and presentation of false evidence. Paper presented at the American Society

of Criminology Conference, Nashville, TN.

MacLin, O. H., Meissner, C. A., & Zimmerman, L. (2004, Nov). PC_Eyewitness: Administration and

applications for research in eyewitness identification psychology. Paper presented at the Society for

Computers in Psychology, Minneapolis, MN.

Meissner, C. A. (2004, Oct). Encoding-based processes and the cross-race effect: Are we really “experts” with

own-race faces? Paper presented at the UTEP Eyewitness Memory Conference, El Paso, TX.

Corenblum, B., & Meissner, C. A. (2004, March). Developmental trends in the recognition of own- and

other-race faces. Paper presented at the Nags Head Conference on Children, Race, and

Stereotypes, Boca Raton, FL.

Danielsen, E., & Meissner, C. A. (2004, March). Fingerprint experts in the courtroom: Mock jurors

assessment of scientific testimony. Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law Society

Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.

Dickinson, J. D., Haw, R., & Meissner, C. A. (2004, March). The effect of showups on subsequent lineup

identifications: Carryover effects, encoding quality, and phenomenological judgments. Poster presented

at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.

Haw, R., Meissner, C. A., & Fisher, R. P. (2004, March). Eyewitness identification schemas: Commonalities

in people’s perceptions. Poster presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference,

Scottsdale, AZ.

MacLin, O. H., Meissner, C. A., & Zimmerman, L. (2004, March). PCE_Basic: A computerized framework

for the administration and practical application of research in eyewitness psychology. Poster presented

at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.

Meissner, C. A., Parker, J. F., Tredoux, C. M., & MacLin, O. H. (2004, March). Examining the phenomenology

of lineup identification within a signal detection paradigm. Paper presented at the American

Psychology-Law Society Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.

Mitchell, T., Haw, R., Pfeifer, J., & Meissner, C. A. (2004, March). Racial bias in juror decision-making: A

meta-analytic review of the treatment of Black and White defendants. Paper presented at the

American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.

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Russano, M., Meissner, C. A., & Kassin, S. M. (2004, March). Social influence and false confessions in a

novel experimental paradigm. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society

Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.

Shpurik, M., & Meissner, C. A. (2004, March). Consideration of alibi evidence may depend upon strength of

the prosecution's case. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference,

Scottsdale, AZ.

Corenblum, B., & Meissner, C. A. (2004, Jan). Children's recognition of faces of ingroup and outgroup

members. Poster presented at the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Austin, TX.

Meissner, C. A. (2003, Oct). A phenomenological approach to understanding eyewitness decisions in

simultaneous and sequential lineups. Paper presented at the FIU Eyewitness Memory Conference,

Key West, FL.

Kassin, S. M., Meissner, C. A., & Norwick, R. (2003, July). The post-interrogation safety net: “I’d know a

false confession if I saw one”. Paper presented at the International Psychology & Law Conference,

Edinburgh, Scotland.

Meissner, C. A., Parker, J. F., Tredoux, C. M., & MacLin, O. H. (2003, July). Evaluating lineup identification

procedures within a signal detection framework. Paper presented at the International Psychology &

Law Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Mitchell, T., & Meissner, C. A. (2003, July). Classification and the cross-race effect: Evidence of skilled

perceptual memory? Poster presented at the International Psychology & Law Conference,

Edinburgh, Scotland.

Russano, M., Meissner, C. A., & Kassin, S. M. (2003, July). True and false confessions to an intentional act:

Preliminary results from a novel paradigm. Poster presented at the International Psychology &

Law Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Shpurik, M., & Meissner, C. A. (2003, July). The effectiveness of alibi evidence in counteracting a questionable

confession. Paper presented at the International Psychology & Law Conference, Edinburgh,

Scotland.

Carlucci, M., & Meissner, C. A. (2003, July). The influence of instructional bias on earwitness memory.

Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition Conference,

Aberdeen, Scotland.

Meissner, C. A., Brigham, J. C., & Bennett, B. (2003, July). Perceptual-memory skill and the cross-race

effect: Evidence from eye-tracking and verbal reports. Paper presented at the Society for Applied

Research in Memory & Cognition Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Sendina, C., & Meissner, C. A. (2003, July). The influence of instructional bias on the generation of facial

composites. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition

Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Kersten, A. W., Meissner, C. A., Schwartz, B. L., & Rivera, M. L. (2003, April). Differential sensitivity to

manner of motion in adult English and Spanish speakers. Paper presented at the Society for

Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Schwartz, B. L., Meissner, C. A., Evans, S., Hoffman, M. & Frazier, L. D. (2003, March). Trial-unique

learning and episodic like memory in gorillas. Paper presented at the International Conference on

Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

Schwartz, B. L., Meissner, C. A., Evans, S., & Frazier, L. D. (2002, Nov). Event memory in a gorilla.

Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society Conference, Kansas City, MO.

Meissner, C. A. (2002, Oct). Skilled perceptual processing in the cross-race effect: Implications for training.

Paper presented at the UNI Eyewitness Memory Conference, Cedar Falls, IA.

Scheffers, M. K., Meissner, C. A., & Edenfield, T. (2002, Oct). Face recognition memory: Have I seen you

before? Paper presented at the Society for Psychological Research Conference, Washington, DC.

Meissner, C. A. (2002, March). The influence of perceptual learning in memory for faces: A process-tracing

approach to investigating the own-race bias. (2002, March). Poster presented for the American

Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award (2nd Place). Austin, TX.

Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2002, March). Do sequential lineups safeguard against the influence of

criterion shifts in verbal descriptions? Applied implications of the verbal overshadowing effect. Paper

presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Austin, TX.

Meissner, C. A., & Kassin, S. M. (2002, March). “He’s guilty!”: Investigator bias in judgments of truth and

deception. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Austin, TX.

Kassin, S. M., Norwick, R., Meissner, C. A., & Malpass, R. S. (2002, March). “I’d know a false confession

if I saw one”: A comparative study of college students and police investigators. Paper presented at the

American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Austin, TX.

Meissner, C. A., Ericsson, K. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2001, Nov). Skilled perceptual memory: Explicating

cognitive mechanisms in the cross-race effect. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society

Conference, Orlando, FL.

Meissner, C. A. (2001, Oct). The influence of perceptual learning in the cross-race effect. Paper presented at

the UTEP Eyewitness Conference, El Paso, TX.

Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2001, June). Memorability, familiarity, and representation of own- and

other-race faces. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition,

Kingston, OT.

Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2000, June). The influence of lineup presentation factors in the verbal

overshadowing effect. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory &

Cognition Conference, Miami, FL.

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Brigham, J. C., & Meissner, C. A. (2000, March). Representation and memory for own- and other-race faces.

Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2000, March). Thirty years of investigating the own-race bias in memory

for faces: A meta-analytic review. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society

Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Meissner, C. A., Brigham, J. C., & Kelley, C. M. (1999, July). Self-generated misinformation: The influence

of retrieval processes in verbal overshadowing. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Research

in Memory & Cognition Conference, Boulder, CO.

Goodwin, K. A., Meissner, C. A., & Ericsson, K. A. (1998, May). Contextual organization and the

probability of false recall. Poster presented in the Showcase Session at the American Psychological

Society Conference, Washington, D.C.

Goodwin, K. A., Meissner, C. A., & Ericsson, K. A. (1998, March). Protocol analysis and the structure of

memory in false recall. Paper presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association Conference,

Mobile, AL.

Meissner, C. A., Brigham, J. C., & Pfeifer, J. E. (1998, March). Attitudes, perceptions, and jury nullification:

Assessing individual and group reactions to a case of mercy killing. Poster presented at the American

Psychology-Law Society Conference, Redondo Beach, CA.

Wasserman, A. W., & Meissner, C. A. (1998, March). The effects of age, attitudes, and experience on

culpability judgments in a case of euthanasia. Poster presented at the American Psychology–Law

Society Conference, Redondo Beach, CA.

Meissner, C. A., Goodwin, K. A., & Ericsson, K. A. (1997, July). The structure of memory in false recall.

Poster presented at the Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition Conference,

Toronto, OT.

Meissner, C. A. (1997, May). Assessing the influence of “spontaneous” encoding strategies in facial

recognition. Poster presented at the American Psychological Society Conference, Washington, DC.

INVITED COLLOQUIA A positive, scientific approach to improving the efficacy of interviewing, interrogation, and credibility

assessment (2010, Aug). High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. Federal Bureau of

Investigation. Washington, DC.

Interview and interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions (2010, Aug). Center for

Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason University.

Memory and the law (2010, May). Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies. Fort Meyers, FL.

Improving the value of interviews for HUMINT and CI purposes (2010, April). CI Working Group (El Paso

Region), Federal Bureau of Investigation. El Paso, TX.

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Recollecting own- and other-race faces: From theory to application and back again... (2010, March). National

Science Foundation. Washington, DC.

Improving the diagnostic value of interrogations for intelligence purposes: A positive, scientific approach.

(2010, Feb). Defense Intelligence Agency. Washington, DC.

Improving the collection of human intelligence from cooperative and non-cooperative sources. (2009, Oct).

The Technical Terrorist: Understanding and Countering the Threat. Center for Defense Systems

Research, University of Texas at El Paso.

Police interrogations and false confessions. (2009, Oct). Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association.

Houston, TX.

Using social science to improve practice in the legal system: A proposed framework for scientific inquiry leading

to policy reform. (2009, Sept). National Research Council Workshop on Field Evaluation of

Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences-Based Methods and Tools for Intelligence and Counter-

Intelligence. National Academies. Washington, DC.

The science of investigative interviewing: Designing effective methods for the elicitation and assessment of

interrogative information. (2009, Aug). German Psychological Association. Giessen, Germany.

Eyewitness (mis)identification: How errors of memory can lead to wrongful conviction. (2009, Aug). Actual

Innocence Conference, Center for American & International Law. Dallas, TX.

Interviewing eyewitnesses: How person descriptions can sometimes interfere and other times enhance

identification performance. (2009, July). University of California, Los Angeles.

Memory for own- and other-race faces: Using a theoretical approach to inform practice in eyewitness

identification. (2009, May). University of New Mexico.

The psychology of investigative interviewing: Interrogation and credibility assessment. (2008, Dec). Institute

for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California.

False confessions. (2008, Oct). Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association. Dallas, TX.

The psychology of investigative interviewing: A review of the research and best practice recommendations.

(2008, Oct). Texas Panhandle Paralegal Association. Amarillo, TX.

Recollecting own- and other-race faces: Theory and application. (2008, Oct). Colorado State University.

Eyewitness memory for own- and other-race faces. (2008, Oct). University of Wyoming.

Eyewitness misidentification and false confessions. (2008, Oct). University of Wyoming School of Law.

Cross-racial identification. (2008, July). New York State Judicial Seminar. Rye Brook, NY.

Interrogations and false confessions: Experimental research that seeks to improve the diagnostic value of

interrogative information. (2008, June). University of Aberdeen.

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Memory for own- and other-race faces: Theory and application. (2008, April). Louisiana State University.

Building a better mouse trap: The importance of laboratory science for improving practice in the interrogation

room. (2008, March). Saleem Shah Award Presentation, American Psychology Law Society

Conference. Jacksonville, FL.

Litigating false confessions: The psychology of interrogations and confessions. (2008, March). U.S. Army

Trial Defense Service Conference. San Antonio, TX.

The psychology of police interrogations and confessions. (2008, Jan). Federal Criminal Practice Conference.

El Paso, TX.

Memory for own- and other-race faces: From theory to application and back again. (2007, Oct). University

of Victoria.

Police interrogations: Research and litigation strategies for dealing with a false confession. (2007, Oct). Texas

Criminal Defense Lawyer’s Association. Dallas, TX.

Exploring dual-process theory in eyewitness identification: Is there a room for both theory and application?

(2007, April). University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

Cross-racial identification. (2007, March). National Legal Defense Conference. Dallas, TX.

What should you know about litigating a false confession? (2006, Sept). Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer’s

Association. Houston, TX.

“You’re guilty, so just confess!”: The role investigative biases in the interrogation room. (2006, Sept).

University of Oklahoma.

“We know you’re guilty, so just confess!“: The psychology of interrogations and false confessions.

(2006, Feb) El Paso County Public Defender’s Office, TX.

The psychology of interrogations and false confessions. (2005, Dec). El Paso County Psychological

Association, TX.

Investigative biases and the psychology of false confessions. (2004, Nov). University of Tennessee at

Chattanooga.

The psychology of interrogations & confessions. (2003, Oct). Dade County Public Defender’s Office, FL.

Social & cognitive factors in the investigative process: Interrogations, confessions, & eyewitness memory.

(2002, Nov). Canadian Institute for Peace, Justice, & Security. Saskatchewan, Canada.

Perceptual-memory skill and the cross-race effect. (2002, Nov). University of Regina.

Basic & applied aspects of memory for faces. (2001, Oct). University of Texas at El Paso.

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EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Associate Editor, Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2007 – 2010

Editorial Boards:

Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2004 – Present

Canadian Journal of Police & Security Services, 2002 – 2008

Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 2011 – Present

Law & Human Behavior, 2005 – Present

Legal & Criminological Psychology, 2005 – Present

Advisory Panel & Ad Hoc Grant Reviews:

Economic & Social Research Council (Great Britain)

Marsden Fund Council (New Zealand)

National Research Foundation (South Africa)

National Science Foundation (United States)

Nordic Research Council (Finland)

Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (Canada)

The British Academy (Great Britain)

The Leverhulme Trust (Great Britain)

Ad Hoc Journal Reviews:

Acta Psychologica

American Journal of Psychology

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Basic & Applied Social Psychology

Behavior Research Methods

British Journal of Psychology

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science

Canadian Journal of Police & Sec Services

Current Directions in Psych. Science

Discourse Processes

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Experimental Psychology

Human Communication Research

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Journal of Cognition & Development

Journal of Exp Psych: Applied

Journal of Exp Psych: Learn, Mem, & Cog

Journal of Exp Social Psychology

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

Journal of Memory & Language

Journal of Personality & Social Psych

Journal of Psychiatry & Law

Law & Human Behavior

Legal & Criminological Psychology

Memory & Cognition

Perception

Perceptual & Motor Skills

Personality & Individual Differences

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin

Psychological Science

Psychology, Crime, & Law

Psychology, Public Policy, & Law

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Quarterly Journal of Exp Psychology

Seeing & Perceiving

Social Behavior & Personality

Social Cognition

Trends in Cognitive Science

Visual Cognition

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS American Psychology-Law Society (Div. 41 of APA)

Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, 2009 – Present

Professional Development Committee, 2009 – Present

APA Science Directorate Dissertation Award Committee, 2007 – 2009

Conference Program Chair, 2004

Dissertation Award Committee, 2006 – 2009

Association for Psychological Science

Psychonomic Society

Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition (SARMAC)

Member of the Board of Governors, 2006 – Present

Secretary-Treasurer, 2007 – 2010

Conference Program Committee Member, 2005, 2007, and 2009

Committee on Field Evaluation of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences-Based Methods and

Tools for Intelligence and Counterintelligence, National Research Council

(National Academies of Sciences)

Presenter and Reviewer, 2009 – 2010

Research Committee, High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, Federal Bureau of

Investigation (United States Department of Justice)

Committee Member, 2010 – Present

Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation IWG, Subcommittee on Forensic Science,

Committee on Science, National Science & Technology Council

(Executive Office of the President of the United States)

Committee Member, 2010 – Present

DEPARTMENTAL / UNIVERSITY SERVICE Chair, Institutional Review Board, UTEP, 2007 – 2010

Chair, Legal Psychology Ph.D. Program, UTEP, 2009 – 2010

University of Texas System Institutional Review Board Oversight Committee, 2009 – 2010

Strategic Planning Committee, Psychology Department, UTEP, 2009 – 2010

Undergraduate Program Committee, Psychology Department, UTEP, 2005 – 2009

Teaching Effectiveness & Development Committee, UTEP, 2006 – 2009

Curriculum Committee, Psychology Department, FIU, 2003 – 2005

Planning Committee, Psychology Department, FIU, 2003 – 2005

Psi Chi Honor Society, Faculty Advisor, FIU, 2002 – 2005

Space Committee, Psychology Department, FIU, 2001 – 2003

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Actual Innocence & Wrongful Conviction (graduate & undergraduate levels)

Cognitive Processes (graduate & undergraduate level)

Human Learning & Remembering (undergraduate level)

Introduction to Psychology (undergraduate level)

Psychology of Investigative Interviewing (graduate & undergraduate levels)

Social Cognition (graduate level)

FORMER PHD STUDENTS Justin Albrechtsen, Ph.D. (2010, UTEP): Research Analyst, MITRE

Ryann Haw, Ph.D. (2005, FIU): Instructor, Big Bend Community College

Jessica Marcon, Ph.D. (2009, UTEP): Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University

Tara Mitchell, Ph.D. (2005, FIU): Assistant Professor, Lock Haven University

Fadia Narchet, Ph.D. (2005, FIU): Assistant Professor, University of New Haven

Melissa Russano, Ph.D. (2004, FIU): Associate Professor, Roger Williams University

Maria Shpurik, Ph.D. (2003, FIU): Instructor, Florida International University

Kyle Susa, Ph.D. (2010, UTEP): Post-Doc, National Center for Border Security & Immigration

External Thesis/Dissertation Examiner:

Flinders University (Australia)

University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Victoria (Canada)