Investigative Interviewing Research Laboratory

Publications

A listing of laboratory publications and conference presentations is provided below. Electronic reprints are available via the UTEP Digital Commons website by CLICKING HERE.

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. (2009). Interrogations and confessions: Research, practice, and policy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Bornstein, B. H., & Meissner, C. A. (2008). Basic and applied issues in eyewitness research: A Munsterberg centennial retrospective. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

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.

Journal Articles

Chiroro, P. M., Tredoux, C. G., Radaelli, S., & Meissner, C. A. (in press). Recognising faces across continents: The effect of within-race variations on the own-race bias in face recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Evans, J. R., Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (in press). Cross-racial lineup identification: The potential benefits of context reinstatement. Psychology, Crime, & Law.

Lane, S. M., & Meissner, C. A. (in press). A “middle road” approach to bridging the basic- applied divide in eyewitness identification research. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

MacLin, M. K., Zimmerman, L. A., Meissner, C. A., MacLin, O. H., Tredoux, C. G., & Malpass, R. S. (in press). The science of collecting eyewitness evidence: Recommendations and an argument for collaborative efforts between researchers and law enforcement. Police Practice & Research.

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.

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.

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.

Haw, R. M., Dickinson, J. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2007). The phenomenology of carryover effects between showup and lineup identification. Memory, 15, 117-127.

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.

Corenblum, B., & Meissner, C. A. (2006). Recognition of faces of ingroup and outgroup children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 93, 187-206.

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.

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.

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., Brigham, J. C., & Butz, D. A. (2005). Memory for own- and other-race faces: A dual-process approach. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 545-567.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Meissner, C. A., & Kassin, S. M. (2002). “He’s guilty!”: Investigator bias in judgments of truth and deception. Law & Human Behavior, 26, 469-480.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Lassiter, G. D., Meissner, C. A., Ware, L. J., Marcon, J. L., & Lassiter, K. D. (in press). Interrogations and confessions: A conference long overdue. To appear in G. D. Lassiter & C. Meissner’s (Eds.) Interrogations and confessions: Research, practice, and policy. Washington, DC: APA.

Malpass, R. S., Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (in press). Training eyewitnesses. In B. Cutler’s (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology & Law. Sage publications.

Marcon, J. L., Meissner, C. A., & Malpass, R. S. (in press). Cross-race effect in eyewitness identification. In B. Cutler’s (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology & Law. Sage publications.

Meissner, C. A., Horgan, A. J., & Albrechtsen, J. S. (in press). False confessions. To appear in R. Kocsis’ (Ed.), Applied criminal psychology: A guide to forensic behavioral sciences. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, LTD.

Meissner, C. A., Russano, M. B., & Narchet, F. M. (in press). The importance of a laboratory science for understanding the psychological processes underlying interrogations and confessions. To appear in G. D. Lassiter & C. Meissner’s (Eds.) Interrogations and confessions: Research, practice, and policy. Washington, DC: APA.

Redlich, A. D., & Meissner, C. A. (in press). Techniques and controversies in the interrogation of suspects: The artful practice versus the scientific study. To appear in J. Skeem et al. (Eds.), Psychological science in the courtroom: Controversies and consensus. Guilford Press.

Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (in press). Eyewitness descriptions. In B. Cutler’s (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology & Law. 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. McGraw-Hill 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.

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.