Updated 8/31/2005 CURRICULUM VITAE CHRISTIAN AUGUST MEISSNER CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Psychology Tel #: (915) 747-6056 University of Texas at El Paso Fax #: (915) 747-6553 El Paso, TX 79968 Email: cmeissner@utep.edu 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 2005 Present Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology & Criminal Justice, University of Texas at El Paso. 2001 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida International University. 1996 2001 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, Florida State University. GRANTS & AWARDS 2003 2006 National Science Foundation Grant #SES-0317368 ($196,977). 2003 MetLife Freedom Award, Florida International University. 2002 FIU Foundation & Provost s Research Grant ($10,518). 2001 American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award (2 nd Place). 1992 1996 Pfeiffer University Awards Phi Delta Sigma, Psi Chi Honor Society, Pfeiffer Honor Scholar, Order of the Sun Dial. C. A. Meissner 1
RESEARCH INTERESTS 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 format, and lineup fairness assessment. Interrogations & Confessions: the study of social and cognitive psychological factors (often associated with police interrogation techniques) that may lead to a confession. Detection of Deception: the study of human lie detection, including factors that influence its reliability and validity in the context of police investigations. PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES MacLin, M. K., Zimmerman, L., Meissner, C. A., MacLin, O. H., Tredoux, C. G., & Malpass, R. S. (in press). The science of collecting eyewitness evidence: A collaborative effort between researchers and law enforcement. Police Practice and Research. Meissner, C. A., Tredoux, C. G., Parker, J. F., & MacLin, O. H. (in press). Eyewitness decisions in simultaneous and sequential lineups: A dual-process signal detection theory analysis. Memory & Cognition. Mitchell, T. L., Haw, R. M., Pfeifer, J. E., & Meissner, C. A. (in press). Racial bias in juror decision-making: A meta-analytic review of defendant treatment. Law & Human Behavior. Furton, K. G., & Meissner, C. A. (2005). Special issue on forensic science (Part 1). Canadian Journal of Police & Security Services, 3, 3-4. 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. C. A. Meissner 2
Meissner, C. A., & Furton, K. G. (2005). Special issue on forensic science (Part 2). Canadian Journal of Police & Security Services, 3, 110-111. 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(2), 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. Meissner, C. A., & Memon, A. (2002). Verbal overshadowing: A special issue exploring theoretical and applied issues. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 869-872. 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. C. A. Meissner 3
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. PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS Brigham, J. C., Bennett, L. B., Meissner, C. A., & Mitchell, T. L. (in press). The influence of race on eyewitness memory. To appear in R. Lindsay et al. s (Eds.), Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology. Lawrence Erlbaum & Assoc. Meissner, C. A., Sporer, S. L., & Schooler, J. W. (in press). Person descriptions as eyewitness evidence. To appear in R. Lindsay et al. s (Eds.), Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology. Lawrence Erlbaum & Assoc. 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. 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. MANUSCRIPTS: UNDER REVIEW Corenblum, B., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, under review). Recognition of faces of ingroup and outgroup children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Haw, R. M., Dickinson, J. D., & Meissner, C. A. (2005, under review). The phenomenology of carryover effects between showup and lineup identification. Memory. Meissner, C. A., & Sendina, C. (2005, under review). The influence of instructional bias on the generation of facial composites. Applied Cognitive Psychology. C. A. Meissner 4
CONFERENCE PAPERS Marcon, J. L., Meissner, C. A., & Mitchell, T. L. (2005, November). Eyewitness memory for own- and otherrace faces: The mitigating effects of sequential presentation and conservative instructions. Poster to be presented at the Psychonomic Society Conference, Toronto, OT. 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, January). 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. C. A. Meissner 5
Tredoux, C., Meissner, C. A., & Schmidt, H. (2005, January). Automated lineup construction: Callibrating 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, November). 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, November). 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, November). 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, October). 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 otherrace 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. 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 C. A. Meissner 6
the prosecution's case. Paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, Scottsdale, AZ. Corenblum, B., & Meissner, C. A. (2004, January). 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, October). 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. 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, November). Event memory in a gorilla. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society Conference, Kansas City, MO. Meissner, C. A. (2002, October). Skilled perceptual processing in the cross-race effect: Implications for training. Paper presented at the UNI Eyewitness Memory Conference, Cedar Falls, IA. C. A. Meissner 7
Scheffers, M. K., Meissner, C. A., & Edenfield, T. (2002, October). Face recognition memory: Have I seen you before? Paper presented at the Society for Psychological Research Conference, Washington, D.C. Meissner, C. A. (2002, March). The influence of perceptual learning in memory for faces: A process-tracing approach to investigating the own-race bias. American Psychology-Law Society Dissertation Award presentation (2 nd 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, November). Skilled perceptual memory: Explicating cognitive mechanisms in the cross-race effect. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society Conference, Orlando, FL. Meissner, C. A. (2001, October). 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 and 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 and Cognition Conference, Miami, FL. 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 and 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. C. A. Meissner 8
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, D.C. INVITED COLLOQUIA Canadian Institute for Peace, Justice, & Security (2002) Dade County Public Defender (2003) University of Regina (2002) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (2004) University of Texas at El Paso (2001) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Psychology Law Society (Div. 41 of APA) Psychonomic Society Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition TEACHING EXPERIENCE Actual Innocence & Wrongful Conviction Cognitive Processes Human Learning & Remembering Introduction to Psychology Psychology of Investigative Interviewing Social Cognition FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS Ryann Haw, Ph.D. (2005, FIU): Instructor, Big Bend Community College. 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): Assistant Professor, Roger Williams University. Maria Krioukova-Shpurik, Ph.D. (2003, FIU): Office of Evaluation & Research for Miami-Dade County Public Schools DEPARTMENTAL / UNIVERSITY SERVICE (FIU) Coordinator of Psychology Department Subject Pool, 2004 2005 C. A. Meissner 9
Curriculum Committee, Psychology Department, 2003 2005 Planning Committee, Psychology Department, 2003 2005 Psi Chi Honor Society, Faculty Advisor, 2002 2005 Space Committee, Psychology Department, 2001 2003 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Editorial Activity: Applied Cognitive Psychology: Book Review Editor, 2004 Present. Editorial Board, 2005 Present. Canadian Journal of Police & Security Services: Editorial Board, 2002 Present. Law & Human Behavior: Editorial Board, 2005 Present. Legal & Criminological Psychology: Editorial Board, 2005 Present. Ad Hoc Grant Reviews: Economic & Social Research Council (Great Britain) National Research Foundation (South Africa) National Science Foundation (United States) Nordic Research Council (Finland) The Leverhulme Trust (Great Britain) Ad Hoc Journal Reviews: American Journal of Psychology Applied Cognitive Psychology Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science Discourse Processes European Journal of Cognitive Psychology Journal of Applied Social Psychology Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied Law & Human Behavior Legal & Criminological Psychology Memory & Cognition Perceptual & Motor Skills Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin Psychological Science Psychology, Public Policy, & Law Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Social Behavior & Personality Trends in Cognitive Science Conference Chair/Planning Committee: 2005 Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, Wellington, N.Z. 2004 American Psychology-Law Society, Scottsdale, AZ. 2003 Eyewitness Memory Conference, Key West, FL. C. A. Meissner 10