Eyewitness testimony Distortions in eyewitness confidence Social influence in the context of legal decisions Jury decision making

Contact Information Phone: 207-786-6182 Email: adouglas@bates.edu Office: Pettengill 372

• Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Iowa State University, 2001
• Master of Science in Psychology, Iowa State University, 1998
• Bachelor of Arts, with honors, Williams College, 1996

Professor Douglass is a social psychologist with interests in the interface of psychology and law, specifically eyewitness testimony. In her research, she examines how eyewitness memory can be profoundly distorted by subtle interactions with other witnesses and investigators. 

• Psychology 218 Statistics and Experimental Design
  
• FYS 255 The Psychology of Influence
  
• Psychology 311 Psychology of Religion
  
• Psychology 317 Psychology and Law
  
• Psychology 307 Applied Social Psychology
  

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Douglass, A. B., & ^*Pavletic, A. (2010). Eyewitness confidence malleability: Why it occurs and how it contributes to wrongful convictions. In B. L. Cutler (Ed). Conviction of the Innocent: Lessons from Psychological Research. APA Press.

Douglass, A. B., Neuschatz, J. S., ^*Imrich, J. F., & Wilkinson, M. (2010). Does post-identification feedback affect evaluations of eyewitness testimony and identification procedures? Law and Human Behavior, 34, 282-294..

Douglass, A. B., Brewer, N., & Semmler, C. (2010).  Moderators of post-identification feedback effects on eyewitnesses’ memory reports. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 15, 279-292.

Quinlivan, D. S., Neuschatz, J. S., Jiminez, A., Cling, A. D., Douglass, A. B., & Goodsell, C. A.  (2009). Do prophylactics prevent inflation?: Post-identification feedback and the effectiveness of procedures to protect against confidence-inflation in earwitnesses. Law and Human Behavior, 33, 111-121.

McQuiston-Surrett, D. M., Douglass, A. B., & Burkhardt, S. (2008). Evaluation of facial composite evidence depends on the presence of other case factors.  Legal and Criminological Psychology, 13(2), 279-298.

^*Poggio, A., & Douglass, A. B. (2007). The impact of task difficulty, defendant's race and race salience on conformity in mock jury deliberations. Modern Psychological Studies: Journal of Undergraduate Research, 13(1), 3-15.

Douglass, A. B., ^*Smith, C., & Fraser-Thill, R. (2005). A problem with double-blind photospread procedures: Photospread administrators use the confidence of one eyewitness to influence the identification of another eyewitness. Law and Human Behavior, 29(5), 543-562.

Wells, G. L., & Bradfield, A. L. (1998).  “Good, you identified the suspect”: Feedback to eyewitnesses distorts their reports of the witnessed experience.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 83, 360-376.

Douglass, A. B., Brewer, N., & Semmler, C. (August 1, 2009 – July 31, 2012).  The dynamic interaction between investigator and eyewitness: Effects on memory reports and interviewer behavior. National Science Foundation, $128,926.

Semmler, C., Brewer, N., & Douglass, A. B., (beginning December 2009). The distortion of eyewitness identification testimony. Australian Research Council, $230,000 (AUD).