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My research interests center around the intersection between psychology and the law. I have investigated several areas of legal psychology including juries (sexual harassment), eyewitness identification, deception detection and memory conformity. I am also interested in confessions (e.g., particular vulnerabilities) and interrogations (tactics, effectiveness, etc.).
I started in the Legal Psychology Ph.D. program in the Fall of 2007. My general research interests are investigative interviewing and eyewitness memory. More specifically, I am interested in errors in eyewitness memory: self-generated errors and errors resulting from external influences. I am also interested in the vulnerabilities and strengths of child eyewitnesses’ memories.
Shari Schwartz is a doctoral student in the Legal Psychology program at Florida International University. She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Central Florida. Her research interests center on the social and cognitive psychological factors that influence decision making such as memory, social influence, spontaneous inference and implicit personality theories. Currently, her research activities include a study that examines the impact of time delay on memory conformity for mundane actions. She is also working on her thesis study that examines the influence of time delay and post-event information on memory.
I am a first year graduate student in the Legal Psychology Ph.D Program at Florida International University. My main research interest is eyewitness memory. Currently, I am working on studies that look at the circumstances in which memory conformity occurs. I am also interested in how alcohol affects people's memory for an event.
I started in the legal psych PhD program Fall 2008. I received my B.A..s in Psychology and Social Behavior, and Criminology, Law and Society (2008) from the University of California, Irvine. While in college I completed two applied internships in the Washington, D.C. area - one with Interpol and the other with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. My research interests include the effects of building rapport with eyewitnesses, memory conformity and detecting deception.
I am a doctoral student in the Legal Psychology program at Florida International University. I received my B.S. in Psychology and Criminal Justice Studies from Iowa State University in May 2010. My research interests are centered around the interaction between psychology and the law. My main interests are in eyewitness memory. Specifically, I am interested in the underlying processes used in eyewitness memory and in making eyewitness identifications. Additionally, I am interested in the tactics and procedures used during lineup administration and in the social psychological processes involved in police interrogation and the elicitation of confessions.