Researcher Profile's
Criminal Justice; investigative methods, legal rights, profiling, and wrongful convictions
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Dr. Amy Leach
Dr. Amy Leach concentrates her research on four primary topics within the context of forensic psychology: wrongful convictions, confession and interrogations, eyewitness memory, and lie detection. Through her laboratory, The Lie Lab, she investigates techniques for intervening and detecting deception.
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Dr. Kimberley Clow
Dr. Kimberly Clow concentrates her research on two major topics within the context of forensic psychology: wrongful convictions and gender stereotypes. She also works with students through supervision on topics including stigma of wrongful conviction, and perception of individuals in male or female-dominated careers. Through her laboratory, Plant Lab, she takes a psycho-legal approach to the stigma of wrongful conviction and biases in criminal legal systems.
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Dr. Karla Emeno
Dr. Karla Emeno concentrates her research on various aspects of forensic psychology, including: geographic profiling, police stress, predictive crime mapping, valuation and methods of improving various psychologically-based investigative techniques
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Dr. Leigh Harkins
Dr. Leigh Harkins concentrates her research on 3 major aspects of forensic psychology, including: aggression in groups, offender rehabilitation, and sexual aggression. She also works with students through supervision of research in topics such as group aggression, perceptions of sexual aggression, and sex offender treatment effectiveness.
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Dr. Shannon Vettor
Dr. Shannon Vettor concentrates her research on three major topics in forensic psychology: offender profiling, sexual aggression, and sexual victimization. Working to support efforts in prevention of reoffending and potential victimization.
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Dr. Joseph Eastwood
Dr. Eastwood's research is primarily focused on four primary areas: investigative interviewing, alibis, comprehension of legal rights, and wrongful convictions. He works to apply the information obtained from his lab, the Applied Law Enforcement Resource & Training (ALERT) Lab, to real-world contexts and applications.
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Developmental psychological research
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Dr. Taylor Heffer
Dr. Heffer is a developmental psychologist interested in adolescent development, with a focus on understanding factors related to poor adjustment during this phase of life. Her research is focused on identifying cognitive and affective processes that contribute to elevated risk for mental health problems during adolescence. She is interested in how these factors interact to predict individual differences as well as stability and change in adolescent wellbeing over time. She uses a variety of methods, including self-report surveys, EEG, longitudinal analyses, and multiple indicators of development (pubertal status, age) to assess vulnerability during adolescence. Dr. Heffer's research is conducted in her Dev Well Lab.
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Dr. Lindsay Malloy
Dr. Lindsay Malloy concentrates her research on developmental psychology in relation to the law and crime in areas such as developmental psychology and the law, children’s disclosure of negative or traumatic experiences, children’s memory, suggestibility, and eyewitness testimonies, confessions and interrogations, and investigative interviewing.
While conducting her own research, Dr. Malloy also works to assist students by supervising areas of research, including disclosure and recantation of child maltreatment allegations, individual differences in children’s memory and suggestibility, improving investigative interviews and interrogations of youth, and factors affecting children’s honesty.
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Neuropsychology
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Dr Matthew Shane
Dr. Matthew Shane's main area of study is the cognitive functions that play a role in different areas of psychology. These include the emotional and cognitive processes involved in psychopathic behaviour and antisocial personalities; as well as the neural systems that control fear, guilt, shame, empathy, perspective taking, error monitoring, experiential learning, and Neuromodulation, which is the power to change neural responses on your own.
Dr. Shane heads his research lab, CANdiLab, where the aim is to understand cognitive and affective processes in the antisocial population.
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Dr. Bobby Stojanoski
Dr. Bobby Stojanoski focuses his research on the social and cognitive aspects of development, looking at various topics such as the role of sleep, shared social experiences, brain training, and visual perception and memory.
Dr. Stojanoski is the head of the DevSCN lab, where the goal is to understand children and adolescents from a cognitive viewpoint.
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Memory
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Dr. Tanya Karam-Zanders
Dr. Tanya Karam-Zanders focuses her research on various aspects of human cognition, including: Cognitive psychology, Human memory, Emotionality and memory, and Meta-cognition and person memory
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