Dr. Suzanne L. Davis is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Iowa.
Children's eyewitness testimony: Children's general performance as witnesses in the legal system; children's memory and suggestibility in forensic and legal settings; the role of individual difference factors and effects of social psychological variables (e.g., social support) on children's eyewitness memory.
Adults' perceptions of sexual assault victims: Jurors' perceptions of child witnesses' credibility, accuracy, suggestibility, and responsibility for sexual abuse; the impact of extralegal variables on judgments in child sexual abuse cases.
Repressed memories: Social psychological determinants of clinicians' willingness to believe clients' recovered memories of sexual abuse; lay and jurors' perceptions of recovered memory allegations.
Dr. Michelle A. Epstein is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at La Rabida Children's Hosp., having completed a year-long internship in the Department of Psychiatry at Children's Hospital - Harvard Medical School.
Jurors' perceptions of child witnesses: How jurors' decisions in child sexual abuse cases are affected by victim race, victim age, juror gender, and juror race.
Gender and jury decision-making: Gender differences in jurors' decisions and in persuasive behaviors exhibited during mixed-gender deliberations.
Memories of childhood trauma: Psychological mechanisms responsible for avoidance of traumatic memories, allegations of repressed memories of sexual abuse.
Dr. Nicole Schnopp-Wyatt is currently an assistant professor at Pikeville College, after completing a one-year teaching fellowship at Morehead State University.
Psychology of Women: Women's appraisals of and reactions to street harassment, gender stereotypes, rape and rape myths.
Juror Decision Making: Jurors inferences regarding expert testimony, juror decisions in rape trials, the influence of jurors' stereotypes and scripts on interpretation of evidence and decision making.
After receiving her master's degree, Mei Xiao has entered the Kellogg Business School at Northwestern University.
Deceptive Advertising: Individual differences and situational influences on the effects of puffery in advertising.
Experts in the Legal System: Experiences of expert witnesses in the legal system.