Faculty

Selected Publications

(the web documents below are best if viewed with Internet Explorer):

• Retention interval and eyewitness memory for events and personal identifiers. E. B. Ebbesen and C. Rienick, Journal of Applied Psychology, 1998, 83, 745-762
• Eyewitness memory research: Probative v. prejudicial value. E. B. Ebbesen and V. J. Konecni, Expert Evidence: The International Digest of Human Behaviour Science and the Law, 1996, 5, 2-28.
• The exclusionary rule: Fix it, but fix it right. G. D. Totten, P. D. Kossoris, and E. B. Ebbesen, Pepperdine Law Review, 1999, 26, 887-922.

1. Psycholegal issues involved in assessing the impact of pretrial publicity on the fairness of potential jurors. E. B. Ebbesen
2. Lineups v. showups: A signal detection analysis of confidence, accuracy, and decision making differences. E. B. Ebbesen and M. Libuser
3. A signal detection analysis of the relationship between confidence and accuracy in eyewitness memory. E. B. Ebbesen and J. Wixted
4. Other-race identification: A signal detection analysis of confidence, accuracy, and decision making differences. E. B. Ebbesen and C. Rienick

1. On the unappreciated role that confidence plays in our ability to generalize results from eyewitness research to actual crime victims and witnesses.
2. Why we can not generalize results from post-event memory research to most real-world crime witnessing situations.
3. Simultaneous v. Sequential lineups: What do we really know? E. B. Ebbesen and H. Flowe
4. Why behavioral arguments against rape-shield laws may have little empirical justification.

1. Recent Issue of Journal of Applied Cognitive on Issues in Measuring Lineup Fairness.
2. Gary Wells' site containing examples, articles and position papers.