Research Interests
Most of my research has been in the field of human experimental psychology,
focusing on applied issues. In recent years my major research focus has
been in the psychology-law area and includes projects on eyewitness identification
(e.g., decision processes and relationships between accuracy, confidence
and decision latency), eyewitness recall (grain size regulation), juror
decision making (especially the influence of witness confidence) and comprehension
of judges' instructions. These projects are funded by grants from the
Australian Research Council, Flinders University, and the Law Foundation
of South Australia, and are pursued in well-equipped laboratory
facilities.
For further details on research grants, publications, etc., follow link to Neil Brewer's Psychology-Law Research.
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Selected Publications
Brewer, N. (2006). Uses and abuses of eyewitness identification confidence.
Legal and Criminological Psychology, 11, 3 - 23.
Brewer, N., & Wells, G. L. (2006). The confidence-accuracy relationship
in eyewitness identification: Effects of lineup instructions, foil similarity
and target-absent base rates. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied,
12, 11-30.
Brewer, N., Caon, A., Todd, C., & Weber, N. (2006). Eyewitness identification
accuracy and response latency. Law and Human Behavior, 30, 31-50.
Brewer, N., & Williams, K. D. (2005). Psychology and law: An empirical perspective. New York:
Guilford.
Brewer, N., Keast, A., & Rishworth, A. (2002). The confidence-accuracy relationship
in eyewitness identification: The effects of reflection and disconfirmation
on correlation and calibration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied,
8, 46-58.
Semmler, C., Brewer, N., & Wells, G. L. (2004). Effects of postidentification feedback on eyewitness identification and nonidentification confidence. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89, 334-346.
Weber, N., Brewer, N., Wells, G. L., Semmler, C., & Keast, A. (2004). Eyewitness identification accuracy and response latency: The unruly 10-12 second rule. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 10, 139-147.
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