Meissner, Christian A, Sporer, Siegfried L, Susa, Kyle J
Verbal descriptions can sometimes impair (or "overshadow") and other times facilitate subsequent attempts at perceptual identification of faces; however, understanding the relationship between these...
Police interviewing and interrogation: A self-report survey of police practices and beliefs (2008)
Kassin, Saul M, Leo, Richard A, Meissner, Christian A, Richman, Kimberly D, Colwell, Lori H, Leach, Amy-May, ...
By questionnaire, 631 police investigators reported on their interrogation beliefs and practices--the first such survey ever conducted. Overall, participants estimated that they were 77% accurate at...
MacLin, M Kimberly, Zimmerman, Laura A, Meissner, Christian A, MacLin, Otto H, Tredoux, Colin G, Malpass, Roy S
Psychological researchers have brought a scientific understanding to the collection of eyewitness evidence, and have proposed a variety of recommendations designed to improve its reliability....
The effects of accomplice witnesses and jailhouse informants on jury decision making (2008)
Neuschatz, Jeffrey S, Lawson, Deah S, Swanner, Jessica K, Meissner, Christian A, Neuschatz, Joseph S
The present study presents one of the first investigations of the effects of accomplice witnesses and jailhouse informants on jury decision-making. Across two experiments, participants read a trial...
The phenomenology of carryover effects between showup and lineup identification (2007)
Haw, Ryann M, Dickinson, Jason J, Meissner, Christian A
This study explored carryover effects from showups to subsequent lineup identifications using a novel paradigm in which participants rendered multiple identification judgments. One-hundred-sixty...
Person descriptions as eyewitness evidence (2007)
Meissner, Christian A, Sporer, Siegfried L, Schooler, Jonathan W
The influence of race on eyewitness memory (2007)
Brigham, John C, Bennett, L Brooke, Meissner, Christian A, Mitchell, Tara L
Recognition of faces of ingroup and outgroup children and adults (2006)
Corenblum, Barry, Meissner, Christian A
People are often more accurate in recognizing faces of ingroup than outgroup members. While own group biases in face recognition are well established among adults, less attention has been given to...
Investigating true and false confessions within a novel experimental paradigm (2005)
Russano, Melissa B, Meissner, Christian A, Narchet, Fadia M, Kassin, Saul M
The primary goal of the current study was to develop a novel experimental paradigm with which to study the influence of psychologically-based interrogation techniques on the likelihood of true and...
Racial bias in juror decision-making: A meta-analytic review of defendant treatment (2005)
Mitchell, Tara L, Haw, Ryann M, Pfeifer, Jeffrey E, Meissner, Christian A
Common wisdom seems to suggest that racial bias, defined as disparate treatment of minority defendants, exists in jury decision-making, with Black defendants being treated more harshly by jurors than...
Meissner, Christian A, Tredoux, Colin G, Parker, Janat F, MacLin, Otto H
Many eyewitness researchers have argued for the application of a sequential alternative to the traditional simultaneous lineup, given its role in decreasing false identifications of innocent suspects...
Memory for own- and other-race faces: A dual-process approach (2005)
Meissner, Christian A, Brigham, John C, Butz, David A
The current studies assessed the phenomenological basis of the cross-race effect by examining predictions of various social-cognitive mechanisms within a dual-process framework for both the...
Eyewitness memory and identification (2005)
Malpass, Roy S, Zimmerman, Laura A, Meissner, Christian A, Ross, Stephen J, Rigoni, Mary E, Topp, Lisa D, ...
MacLin, Otto H, Meissner, Christian A, Zimmerman, Laura A
Eyewitness identification evidence is an important aspect of our legal system. Society relies on witnesses to provide identifications of suspects they observed during the commission of a crime....
Kassin, Saul M, Meissner, Christian A, Norwick, Rebecca J
College students and police investigators watched or listened to ten prison inmates confessing to crimes. Half the confessions were true accounts; half were false--concocted for the study. Consistent...
Eyewitness identification (2004)
Tredoux, Colin G, Meissner, Christian A, Malpass, Roy S, Zimmerman, Laura A
An eyewitness's identification of a perpetrator is a prevalent form of incriminating evidence presented in a criminal case. However, eyewitnesses are frequently mistaken, and their errors have led to...
Event memory and misinformation effects in a gorilla (2004)
Schwartz, Bennett L, Meissner, Christian A, Hoffman, Megan, Evans, Sian, Frazier, Leslie D
Event memory and misinformation effects were examined in an adult gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). The gorilla witnessed a series of unique events, involving familiar people engaging in a novel...
The psychology of interrogations and false confessions: Research and recommendations (2003)
Meissner, Christian A, Russano, Melissa B
Instances of wrongful conviction in North America and Great Britain have uncovered numerous cases in which an innocent suspect has provided a false confession to a crime. As a result, social...
Meissner, Christian A, Brigham, John C, Pfeifer, Jeffrey E
Prior research on jury nullification has suggested that individuals tend to operate on their "sentiments" of justice when engaging in juridic decision-making tasks. Explicitly informing jurors of...
Verbal overshadowing: A special issue exploring theoretical and applied issues (2002)
Meissner, Christian A, Memon, Amina
Over a decade of research has investigated the verbal overshadowing effect. This phenomenon, first demonstrated by Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990), indicates that verbally describing a...
He's guilty!: Investigator bias in judgments of truth and deception (2002)
Meissner, Christian A, Kassin, Saul M
Detecting deception is an inherently difficult task, but one that plays a critical role for law enforcement investigators in the interrogation room. In general, research has failed to indicate that...
Applied aspects of the instructional bias effect in verbal overshadowing (2002)
Previous studies have demonstrated that instructional manipulation of a participant witness's response criterion on a description task can lead to verbal overshadowing in performance on a subsequent...
The influence of retrieval processes in verbal overshadowing (2001)
Meissner, Christian A, Brigham, John C, Kelley, Colleen M
Recent studies of eyewitness memory have observed deleterious effects of producing a verbal description on later identification accuracy of a previously viewed face, an effect termed "verbal...
Thirty years of investigating the own-race bias in memory for faces: A meta-analytic review (2001)
Meissner, Christian A, Brigham, John C
The current paper reviews the own-race bias (ORB) phenomenon in memory for human faces, the finding that own-race faces are better remembered when compared with memory for faces of another, less...
A meta-analysis of the verbal overshadowing effect in face identification (2001)
Meissner, Christian A, Brigham, John C
Recent studies have demonstrated that requesting individuals to produce a verbal description of a previously seen face can hinder subsequent attempts at identification. This phenomenon, termed...
Goodwin, Kerri A, Meissner, Christian A, Ericsson, K. Anders
The likelihood of false recall in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm was shown to depend on encoding context in two experiments. When fillers had been pre-selected to decrease the likelihood...
Social and cognitive factors affecting the own-race bias in Whites (2000)
Slone, Ashlyn E, Brigham, John C, Meissner, Christian A
This study investigated factors associated with the commonly found own-race bias in face recognition. We utilized several measures of general face recognition memory, visual perception and memory,...
Applied issues in the construction and expert assessment of photo lineups (1999)
Brigham, John C, Meissner, Christian A, Wasserman, Adina W
Issues surrounding lineup fairness have been explored scientifically for over two decades. The present study investigates the applied/external validity of this line of research. First, several...