The Selected Works of Christian A. Meissner, Ph.D.
Christian Meissner is Associate Professor of Psychology & Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive & Behavioral Science from Florida State University (2001) and conducts empirical studies on the psychological processes underlying investigative interviews, including issues surrounding eyewitness recall and identification, deception detection, and interrogations and confessions. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, has presented more than 75 papers at national and international conferences, and has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation to support his empirical research. He has served as a reviewer for over 20 major journals in the field, has participated as an advisory panel member for the National Science Foundation, and is currently Associate Editor for the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. Based upon his research, Dr. Meissner has also served as a consultant and expert witness on issues of eyewitness misidentification and false confession in numerous state and federal courts in the U.S.
Documents by Subject Area
Cross-Race Effect
- Cross-race effect
- Examining the cross-race effect in lineup identification using Caucasian and First Nations samples
- The influence of race on eyewitness memory
- Recognition of faces of ingroup and outgroup children and adults
- Memory for own- and other-race faces: A dual-process approach
- Thirty years of investigating the own-race bias in memory for faces: A meta-analytic review
- Social and cognitive factors affecting the own-race bias in Whites
Deception Detection
- “I’d know a false confession if I saw one”: A comparative study of college students and police investigators
- You’re guilty, so just confess!: Cognitive and behavioral confirmation biases in the interrogation room
- He’s guilty!: Investigator bias in judgments of truth and deception
Description-Identification Relationship
- A theoretical and meta-analytic review of the relationship between verbal descriptions and identification accuracy in memory for faces
- Description accuracy
- Person descriptions as eyewitness evidence
- Verbal overshadowing: A special issue exploring theoretical and applied issues
- Applied aspects of the instructional bias effect in verbal overshadowing
- The influence of retrieval processes in verbal overshadowing
- A meta-analysis of the verbal overshadowing effect in face identification
Eyewitness Identification
- The science of collecting eyewitness evidence: Recommendations and an argument for collaborative efforts between researchers and law enforcement
- Training eyewitnesses
- The phenomenology of carryover effects between showup and lineup identification
- Eyewitness decisions in simultaneous and sequential lineups: A dual-process signal detection theory analysis
- Eyewitness memory and identification
- PC_Eyewitness: A computerized framework for the administration and practical application of research in eyewitness psychology
- Eyewitness identification
- Disputed eyewitness identification evidence: Important legal and scientific issues
- Applied issues in the construction and expert assessment of photo lineups
Interrogations & Confessions
- Techniques and controversies in the interrogation of suspects: The artful practice versus the scientific study
- Police interviewing and interrogation: A self-report survey of police practices and beliefs
- Investigating true and false confessions within a novel experimental paradigm
- The psychology of interrogations and false confessions: Research and recommendations
Juror Decision-Making
- The effects of accomplice witnesses and jailhouse informants on jury decision making
- Racial bias in juror decision-making: A meta-analytic review of defendant treatment
- Jury nullification: The influence of judicial instruction on the relationship between attitudes and juridic decision-making
Memory (Basic & Applied)
- Event memory and misinformation effects in a gorilla
- Towards a model of false recall: Experimental manipulation of encoding context and the collection of verbal reports
Miscellaneous
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