🚨 New preprint out now! 🚨 Here, we examine the ways repeated-suspect presentations can contaminate eyewitness memory and put innocent suspects at risk. with Drs. Andrew Smith (ISU) and John Wixted (UCSD) Link here: researchgate.net/publication/... Read more below ↓↓↓

We hope everyone enjoyed #apls2026! See you next year for #apls2027 in Louisville! @aplssc.bsky.social

A haiku for my labmate, Taylor Tracy, who presented her first-ever AP-LS poster this year: Opt-out instructions Might result in info loss But we found no change Instead, witnesses lowered their criterion for high-conf judgments. #apls2026

Very delayed haikus from #apls2026 for my friend Katie Cunius (UNR), as is tradition: When a defendant Is in an extremist group schemas sway verdicts

I had an amazing time at #apls2026 in Reno! I was excited to present my recent work examining how repeated-suspect presentations contaminate memory and put innocent suspects at risk. It was also lovely to spend time with some of my favorite people. ☺️ Can't wait for Louisville next year!

Excited to be at #apls2026 in Reno, NV! Hoping everyone will pop by and hear about some of the work I've been doing in the past year.

Very excited to announce that I will be joining the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University as an Assistant Professor this upcoming Fall! ☺️

"AI-Faces by Illinois" include 1,152 AI-generated images of children by age (3-15), gender, eight racial background, and emotion (smile, angry, sad). Images (osf.io/vurm5/) and Preprint available(doi.org/10.31234/osf...) with @brendacstraka.bsky.social and @Dr. Michael Rizzo!

Excited to present in the Artificial Intelligence and Human Memory symposium at 3:45 alongside some really great researchers. Hope y’all can drop by! #psynom2025 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

It's been 20+ years since researchers recommended that police videorecord lineups. But no one has empirically tested the diagnostic value of these videos... until now. Here, we provide a compelling case to mandate the videorecording of lineup procedures.

Finding #3: Witnesses' lineup behavior can diagnose high-confidence mistaken identifications. When witnesses are highly confident but their behavior indicates a weak and disfluent recognition experience, the CJS system should doubt their accuracy.

Finding #2: Not only did witness behaviors discriminate between accurate and inaccurate decisions, but they also improved classification performance over and above confidence and decision speed.

Finding #1: Accurate witnesses behaved markedly different than inaccurate witnesses—a strong and fluent recognition experience implied accuracy and a weak and disfluent recognition experience implied inaccuracy.

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Why should police video-record lineups? We videorecorded 1496 witnesses as they completed lineups. We coded the behaviors that these witnesses demonstrated and subjected the resulting data to machine learning analyses. Link and findings below!

Why are lineup rejections less diagnostic of innocence than suspect identifications are of guilt? Take a look at our preprint for insight on this all-too-common finding of the eyewitness id literature.

Rebecca Ying@rying.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New preprint available! In this paper, we look at why lineups better inculpate the guilty than they do exculpate the innocent (the rejection-inferiority effect). W/ Andrew Smith, Jim Lampinen, @nydia-ayala.bsky.social, & Ian Dobbins 🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

‼️ Another new preprint ‼️ Here, we find that video recordings of lineup procedures can aid us with diagnosing witness accuracy (over and above confidence and decision time). This project provides even more evidence that the legal system should mandate video recording lineups.

Nydia Ayala@nydia-ayala.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Why should police video-record lineups? We videorecorded 1496 witnesses as they completed lineups. We coded the behaviors that these witnesses demonstrated and subjected the resulting data to machine learning analyses. Link and findings below!

🚨 New preprint available! In this paper, we look at why lineups better inculpate the guilty than they do exculpate the innocent (the rejection-inferiority effect). W/ Andrew Smith, Jim Lampinen, @nydia-ayala.bsky.social, & Ian Dobbins 🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) The Rejection-Inferiority Effect: Why are Eyewitness Lineups More Effective at Demonstrating Guilt than Innocence?

PDF | Experimental research on eyewitness lineups demonstrates a rejection-inferiority effect: the inculpatory value of lineups exceeds the exculpatory... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

For anyone interested in conducting lineup identification research, check out this valuable database of research materials generously shared by #SARMAC2025 presenter Ryan Fitzgerald, Stefana Juncu, @evaribbers.bsky.social and @evarubinova.bsky.social osf.io/vrj3u @sarmac2025.bsky.social

Eyewitness Lineup Identity (ELI) database

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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Meet the AP-LS Campus Representatives! Today we have Rebecca Ying from Iowa State University's Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. program.

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

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Trainee Interest for Formative and Interactive Review (FAIR)

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In Australia, Risk assessment is the big Forensic question. (Not like the US, Where competency is the Biggest referral) @tessneal.bsky.social #APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku

Forensic tools used In Australia pass the Quality test more (Compared to past look At the psych tests we’ve used in US court evals) @tessneal.bsky.social #APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku

✨Back to doing APLS haikus ✨ Ideologies mediate guilt perceptions of extremist groups. - Cunius, “Justification of Decisions Toward an Extremist Group Member” #APLS2025 #Psychlaw #AcademicHaiku

Maya Irvin-Vitela will be presenting this work in the Saturday 3/15 datablitz (5pm-6pm) in San Cristobol. This work is from Ciera Arnett's dissertation (Maya helped as a coder!). Interesting work & findings about psychosis, substance use, & insanity. #APLS2025 #Law #Psychology #PsychLaw #CLJLab

How could AI be used to assess eyewitness identification accuracy? Andrew Smith, @nydia-ayala.bsky.social and @rying.bsky.social discuss three ways AI could prove useful! @officialsarmac.bsky.social #PsychLaw psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

🚨 New publication alert! In this paper, we find that the biased-lineup preference effect (or the finding that lay ppl rate IDs from biased lineups as more reliable than those from unbiased lineups) is driven by perceptual fluency. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Perceptions of Task Fluency Mislead Judgments of Eyewitness Identification Accuracy

PDF | Eyewitness identifications from lineups in which the suspect stands out (biased lineups) are less reliable than identifications from lineups in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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🚨 New publication alert! In this paper, we find that the biased-lineup preference effect (or the finding that lay ppl rate IDs from biased lineups as more reliable than those from unbiased lineups) is driven by perceptual fluency. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Perceptions of Task Fluency Mislead Judgments of Eyewitness Identification Accuracy

PDF | Eyewitness identifications from lineups in which the suspect stands out (biased lineups) are less reliable than identifications from lineups in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

researchgate.net

So unbelievably excited for the @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social conference later this week! Would love to chat with anyone who comes by my poster Saturday night! Below are all the presentations from my lab this year! We're presenting some really fun stuff- excited to share it with everyone! 😀