Professor Amina Memon PhD, C.Psychol, FBPsS
Tel: +44
(0)1224 272230 (office) 274390 (lab)
email: amemon@abdn.ac.uk
Professor Memon’s main
expertise is in Social and Cognitive psychology. Her research is international
with collaborations in Australia,
Brazil, North
America and several European countries. She has received awards to
support her research from the Economic and Social Research Council, the
European Union, the National Science Foundation, the Nuffield Foundation, the
Leverhulme Trust, the British
Academy and the Royal
Society. Dr Memon has published widely on topics such as investigative
interviewing of child witnesses, police interviews, face recognition,
eyewitness identification, the performance of child and older adult witnesses,
false memories and jury decision-making. Dr Memon works closely with
professionals involved in the interviewing of witnesses and has contributed to
training programmes all over the world. She also provides expert assessments of
the quality of witness evidence in civil and criminal proceedings.
Psychology, Law & Eyewitness Testimony 2008-9
Teaching Materials
Course Handout Lecture 1 handout Lecture 2 handout Lecture 3 handout
Lecture
4 handout Lecture 5 handout Lecture 6 handout Lecture 7 handout
Lecture 8 handout Lecture 10 handout Lecture 11
handout Revision lecture
For Professor Memon's current
research projects please see The
Eyewitness Research Group
Books:
Memon, A., Vrij, A. & Bull, R. (2003). Psychology
& Law: Truthfulness, Accuracy and
Credibility of victims, witnesses and suspects. Second Edition.
Chichester, Wiley.
Memon, A. & Bull, R.
(Eds.) (1999) Handbook of the Psychology of Interviewing. Chichester,
Wiley. (Published in paperback 2001).
Selected Journal articles:
Hulse, L., Allan, K., Memon, A. & Read,
J. D. (2007 ) Emotional arousal and memory: A test
of the post-stimulus processing hypothesis.
American Journal of Psychology, 120, 73-90
Candel, I., Memon, A. & Al-Harazi,
F. (2007). Peer Discussion Affects
Children’s Memory Reports. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 1191-1199
Colwell, K.,
Hiscock-Anisman, C., Memon, A., Woods, D. & Yaeger, H. (2006) Strategies of impression management among
deceivers and truth tellers: How liars attempt
to convince. American Journal of
Forensic Psychology.
Colwell,
K., Hiscock-Anisman, C., Memon, A., Rachel, A, & Colwell, L. (2007) Vividness and spontaneity of
statement detail characteristics as predictors of witness credibility. American
Journal of Forensic Psychology, 25, 5-30
Wright, D.B., Gabbert, F. Memon, A. &
London, K. (2008). Changing the
criterion for memory conformity in free
recall and recognition. Memory
Darling, S., Valentine, T. &
Memon, A. (2008) Selection of Lineup Foils in Operational Contexts'
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 159-169
Hulse, L. & Memon, A. (2006) Fatal
Impact? The Effects of Emotional Arousal and Weapon Presence on Police
Officers’ Memories for a Simulated Crime Legal & Criminological Psychology,
11, 313-325
Stein, L. & Memon, A. (2006) Testing
the efficacy of the Cognitive Interview in a developing country.
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20. 597-605
Valentine, T., Darling, S., Memon, A. (2006). How can
psychological science enhance the effectiveness of identification procedures?
An international comparison. Public Interest Law Reporter, 11 21-39.
Memon, A.,
Holliday, R. & Hill, C. (2006) Jim
is a very clumsy man! Pre-event stereotypes
and misinformation effects in young children. Memory, 14 (1), 104-114.
Dixon,
S. & Memon, A. (2005) Post-identification feedback and eyewitness memory.
Applied
Cognitive Psychology, 19, 935 - 951
Brown, A., Hornstein, S. & Memon, A. (2006) Tracking
conversational repetition: an evaluation of target monitoring ability. Applied
Cognitive Psychology 20, 85–95.
Gabbert,
F., Memon, A. , & Wright, D. B. (2006). Memory conformity: Disentangling
the steps towards influence during a
discussion. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 13, 480-485
Gabbert,
F., Memon, A. , & Wright, D. B. (2007).
Manipulating perceived quality of encoding: Implications for memory
conformity Acta Psychologica 124,
319-331.
Hope,
L., Memon, A. & McGeorge, P. (2004) Understanding pre-trial publicity:
Pre-decisional distortion of evidence by mock jurors. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Applied, 10, 111-119
Hafstad,
G., Memon, A. & Logie, R (2004). The
effects of post-identification feedback on children’s memory. Applied Cognitive
Psychology, 18, 901-912.
Memon,
A., Hope, L., & Bull, R. H. C. (2003). Exposure Duration: Effects on
eyewitness accuracy and confidence. British Journal of Psychology, 94, 339-354.
Gabbert,
F., Memon, A., Allan, K. & Wright, D. (2004). Say it to my face: Examining the effects of
socially encountered misinformation. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 9,
215-227.
Memon,
A & Gabbert, F. (2003). Unravelling
the effects of a sequential lineup.
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6, 703-714
Memon, A., Bartlett, J.C., Rose, R. & Gray, C. (2003) The aging eyewitness: The effects of
face-age and delay upon younger and older observers. Journal of Gerontology,
58, 338-345
Gabbert,
F., Memon, A. & Allan, K. (2003). Memory Conformity: Can eyewitnesses
influence each other's memories for an event?
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 533-544.
Memon, A. & Gabbert, F. (2003). Improving the
identification accuracy of senior witnesses: Do pre-lineup questions and
sequential testing help? Journal of
Applied Psychology, 88 (2): 341-347
Mazzoni,
G. & Memon, A. (2003). The effect of imagination on autobiographical
beliefs and memories, Psychological Science, 14, 186-188
Meissner, C.
& Memon, A. (2002). Verbal Overshadowing: A special issue involving
theoretical and applied issues. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 869-872.
Memon, A. & Bartlett, J.C. (2002) The effects of
verbalisation on face recognition.
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 635-650.
Memon, A. & Rose, R. (2002) Identification abilities of
children: Does verbalisation impair face and dog recognition? Psychology, Crime & Law, 8, 229-242.
Memon, A., Hope, L., Bartlett, J., & Bull, R. (2002).
Eyewitness recognition errors: The effects of mugshot viewing and choosing in
young and old adults. Memory and
Cognition, 30, 1219-1227.
Hitchcock, C., Howells, K., and Memon, A. (2002)
Interviewing techniques and the psycholinguistic assessment of statement
credibility. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16 (3) 287-300.
Kneller, W., Memon, A.& Stevenage, S. (2001). Simultaneous and Sequential Lineups:
Decision processes of accurate and inaccurate witnesses. Applied Cognitive
Psychology, 15, 659-71.
Thierry,
K., Spence, M. & Memon, A. (2001).
Before misinformation is encountered: Source monitoring decreases child witness
suggestibility. Journal of Cognition & Development, 2 (1), 1-26.
Searcy, J.H., Bartlett, J. C., Memon, A. & Swanson, K
(2001). Aging and lineup performance at long retention intervals: Effects of
metamemory and context reinstatement. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86 (2),
207-14.
Kassin, S., Tubb, A., Hosch, H.M., & Memon, A.
(2001). On the ‘General Acceptance’ of eyewitness testimony
research: A new survey of experts. American Psychologist., 56, 405-416.
Searcy, J.H., Bartlett, J. C. & Memon, A. (2000)
Relationship of availability, lineup conditions and individual differences to false
identification by young and older eyewitnesses. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 5 (2), 219-36
Memon, A. & Wright, D. (1999) The search for John Doe 2:
Eyewitness Testimony and the Oklahoma Bombing.
The Psychologist, 12, 292-5.
Last
update Feb 2008: Enquiries to: amemon@abdn.ac.uk
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