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HAC (Hope Applied Cognition) Lab News

HAC lab members will be busy presenting their research over the upcoming months in the next SARMAC, IIIRG, and EAPL conferences. Click on the conference links to read the abstracts for their poster and oral presentations.

HAC lab member Pam Hanway travelled to Iceland for an academic visit. She met with the director of the Iceland police training center and forensic psychologists who conduct investigative interviews with children. During the visit Pam had discussions about psychology research and how it is used to inform policy and practice in Iceland. (Visit funded by the SCDTP/ESRC).

Congratulations to HAC lab members and House of Legal Psychology graduates, Aleksandras Izotovas and Shiri Portnoy, who  successfully defended their PhD theses in both the University  of Portsmouth (UK) and the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)  in February!

HAC lab member Renan Benigno Saraiva was awarded the student research grant from the Association for Psychological Science. The funded project stems from his work as a supervisor in the Junior Researcher Programme. The aid will assist his research team to better investigate the evaluation of eyewitness evidence by triers of fact. More information can be found here: http://jrp.pscholars.org/research/2018-2019-projects/improving-decision-making-in-the-criminal-justice-system/

Funding News

• National Research Centre: Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) (Consortium: Lancaster, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Cranfield, UWE). See press release here.

Brief Reads [on the CREST website or in CREST Security Review]:

• Hope, L. & Thomas, W. (2018). A-Z of Influence Tactics and Topics. CREST Security Review, 8, 40-41.  https://crestresearch.ac.uk/news/csr-issue-8-influence/
• Hope, L. (2017). What do sources mean when they say “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember”? [visual resource; Nov 2017] https://crestresearch.ac.uk/tag/i-dont-know/
• Hope, L. (2017). When does inconsistency matter?  CREST Security Review, 1, 28-29. https://crestresearch.ac.uk/news/new-magazine/
• Hope, L. (2017).  Memory And Consistency In Eliciting Information: When Does (In)Consistency Matter?  https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/guide-when-does-inconsistency-matter/
• Hope, L. (2016).  How does memory work? CREST Security Review, 1, 16-17. https://crestresearch.ac.uk/news/new-magazine/
• Hope, L. (2016).  Using timelines to assist recall.  https://crestresearch.ac.uk/news/a-timeline-helps-interviewees-recall-and-report-events/
• Thomas, W. & Hope, L. (2018). Try to see things my way? The role of perspective taking in eliciting information. CREST Security Review, 8, 30-31.  https://crestresearch.ac.uk/news/csr-issue-8-influence/

Publication News

"Memory at the Sharp  End: The Psychology  Of Eliciting Information"

Click here to watch the professorial inaugural lecture  by Lorraine Hope, Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at Portsmouth University. 

• Boskovic, I., Biermans, A. J., Merten, T., Jelicic, M., Hope, L., & Merckelbach, H. (2018). The Modified Stroop Task Is Susceptible to Feigning: Stroop Performance and Symptom Over-endorsement in Feigned Test Anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, [1195]. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01195
• Castelfrance-Allen, J. M. & Hope, L. (2018). Visual communication desensitization (VCD©): A novel two-phased approach to interviewing traumatized individuals in investigative contexts. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2018.1474814
• Deeb, H., Vrij, A., Hope, L., Mann, S., Granhag, P. A., Stromwall, L. A. (2018). Police Officers' Perceptions of Statement Inconsistency. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 45, 644-665.
• Deeb, H., Vrij, A., Hope, L., Mann, S., Leal, S., Granhag, P. A., Stromwall, L. A. (2018). The Devil's Advocate approach: An interview technique for assessing consistency among deceptive and truth-telling pairs of suspects. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 23, 37-52.
• Deeb, H., Granhag, P. A., Vrij, A., Stromwall, L. A., Hope, L., Mann, S. (2018). Visuospatial counter-interrogation strategies by liars familiar with the alibi setting. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32, 105-116.
• Hope, L. & Gabbert, F. (2018; In press). Memory at the Sharp End: The costs of remembering through conversations with others in applied contexts.  Topics in Cognitive Science.
• Hope, L. & Gabbert, F. (2018; In press).  Interviewing victims and witnesses. In N. Brewer & A. Douglass (Editors). Psychology and Law. Guilford Publications, New York.
• Hope, L. & Gabbert, F. (2018; In press). Expanding the Legacy of the Cognitive Interview: Developments and Innovations in Evidence-based Investigative Interviewing.  Evidence Based Investigative Interviewing.
• Izotovas, A., Vrij, A., Hope, L., Mann, S., Granhag, P.A., & Strömwall, L.A. (2018). Facilitating memory‐based lie detection in immediate and delayed interviewing: The role of mnemonics. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32, 561–574. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3435
• Kontogianni, F., Hope, L., Taylor, P. J., Vrij, A., & Gabbert, F. (2018). The benefits of a self-generated cue mnemonic for timeline interviewing. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.03.006
• Rechdan, J., Hope, L., Sauer, J. D., Sauerland, M., Ost, J. & Merckelbach, H. (2018). The effects of co-witness discussion on confidence and precision in eyewitness memory reports. Memory, 26, 904-912.
• Rechdan, J., , Sauer, J. D., Hope, L., Sauerland, M., Ost, J. & Merckelbach, H. (2018). Computer mediated social comparative feedback does not affect metacognitive regulation of memory reports. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1433.
• Tupper, N., Sauer, J. D., Sauerland, M., Fu, I., Hope, L. (2018). Face value: testing the utility of contextual face cues for face recognition. Memory, 26, 1436-1449.
• Boskovic, I., van der Heide, D., Hope, L., Merckelbach, H., & Jelicic, M. (2017). Erratum to: Plausibility Judgments of Atypical Symptoms Across Cultures: an Explorative Study Among Western and Non-Western Experts. Psychological Injury & Law, 10, 282-282. DOI: 10.1007/s12207-017-9295-5
• Boskovic, I., van der Heide, D., Hope, L., Merckelbach, H., & Jelicic, M. (2017). Plausibility Judgments of Atypical Symptoms Across Cultures: an Explorative Study Among Western and Non-Western Experts. Psychological Injury & Law, 10(3), 274-281. DOI: 10.1007/s12207-017-9294-6
• Boskovic, I., Bogaard, G., Merckelbach, H., Vrij, A., & Hope, L. (2017). The Verifiability Approach to detection of malingered physical symptoms. Psychology Crime & Law, 23(8), 717-729. DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2017.1302585
• Deeb, H., Vrij, A., Hope, L., Mann, S., Granhag, P. A., Lancaster, G. L. J. (2017). Suspects' consistency in statements concerning two events when different question formats are used. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 14, 74-87.
• Gabbert, F. & Hope L.  (2017). Suggestibility in the Courtroom: How Memory Can Be Distorted During the Investigative and Legal Process. In M. L. Howe & H. Otgaar (Eds.). Finding the Truth in the courtroom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Harvey, A. C., Vrij, A., Leal, S., Hope, L., Mann, S. (2017). Deception and decay: Verbal lie detection as a function of delay and encoding quality. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6, 306-318.
• Harvey, A. C., Vrij, A., Hope, L., Leal, S., Mann, S. (2017). A stability bias effect among deceivers.  Law and Human Behaviour, 41, 519-529.
• Millen, A. E., Hope, L., Hillstrom, A. P., & Vrij, A. (2017). Tracking the truth: the effect of face familiarity on eye fixations during deception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 70, 930-943. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1172093 [IF = 2.22]

• Hope, L. (2016, November). Eliciting reliable accounts, evidence and intelligence: What memory science can contribute to stabilisation, recovery and the pursuit of justice.  Presentation at the 5th Military Psychology Conference: Defence & Security (British Psychological Society). Basingstoke, UK.
• Hope, L. & Blocksidge, D. (2016, October). Operational Witnesses and Post Incident Procedures. Invited lecture given at the Police Federation Seminar on Post Incident Procedures. Hinckley, UK.
• Hope, L. (2016). How does memory work? CREST Security Review, 1. https://crestresearch.ac.uk/csr/
• Hope, L. (in press, 2016). Evaluating the effects of stress and fatigue on police officer response and recall: A challenge for research, training, practice and policy. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
• Deeb, H., Vrij, A., Hope, L., Mann, S., Granhag, P-A. & Lancaster, G. L. J. (in press, 2016). Suspects' consistency in statements concerning two events when different question formats are used. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling.
• Sauer, J., & Hope, L. (2016). The effects of divided attention at study and reporting procedure on regulation and monitoring for episodic recall. Acta psychologica, 169, 143-156.
• Millen, A. E., Hope, L., Hillstrom, A. P., & Vrij, A. (2016). Tracking the truth: the effect of face familiarity on eye fixations during deception. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-14.
• Hope, L., Blocksidge, D., Gabbert, F., Sauer, J. D., Lewinski, W., Mirashi, A. & Atuk, E. (In press). Memory and the Operational Witness:  Police officer recall of firearms encounters as a function of active response role.  Law and Human Behavior.
• Krix, A. C., Sauerland, M., & Merckelbach, H. & Gabbert, F., Hope, L., (In Press).  How effective  is retrieval support for witnesses with different levels of working and source memory? Journal  of Cognitive Psychology.
• Krix, A. C., Sauerland, M., Gabbert, F., Hope, L., & Merckelbach, H. (In Press).  Providing eyewitnesses with initial retrieval support: What works at immediate and subsequent recall?  Psychology, Crime, & Law.
• Gabbert, F., Hope, L., Carter, E. & Boon, R (2015). Communicating with witnesses: The role of  initial accounts during investigative interviews. In G. Oxburgh, T. Grant, T. Myklehust, B.
• Milne (Eds.) Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts: Integrated Approaches from Forensic Psychology, Linguistics and Law Enforcement. John Wiley & Sons.
• Nash, R., Wheeler, R. L. & Hope, L. (2015). On the persuadability of memory: Is changing people's memories no more than changing their minds? British Journal of Psychology, 106, 308-326.
• Jundi, S, Vrij, A., Mann, S., Hillman, J., & Hope, L. (2015). I’m a Photographer, not a Terrorist’: The use of photography to detect deception. Psychology, Crime & Law, 21, 114-126.