Christian A. Meissner
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Christian A. Meissner is Associate Professor of Psychology & Criminal Justice at the University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive & Behavioral Science from Florida State University (2001) and conducts empirical studies on the psychological processes underlying investigative interviews, including issues surrounding the interrogation of criminal suspects and eyewitness recall/identification.
Dr. Meissner has published over 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, has presented more than 75 papers at national and international conferences, and has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense to support his empirical research. He has served as a reviewer for research articles in over 20 major journals in the field, has participated as an advisory panel member for the National Science Foundation, is a member on several prominent editorial boards, and is currently Associate Editor for the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. Based upon his research, Dr. Meissner has also served as a consultant and expert witness on issues of false confession and eyewitness misidentification in numerous courts in the U.S.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Law and Public Policy
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Corenblum, B., & Meissner, C. A. (2006). Recognition of faces of ingroup and outgroup children and adults. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 93, 187-206.
- Kassin, S. M., Leo, R. A., Meissner, C. A., Richman, K. D., Colwell, L. H., Leach, A-M., & La Fon, D. (2007). Police interviewing and interrogation: A self-report survey of police practices and beliefs. Law & Human Behavior, 31, 381-400.
- Kassin, S. M., Meissner, C. A., & Norwick, R. J. (2005). “I’d know a false confession if I saw one”: A comparative study of college students and police investigators. Law & Human Behavior, 29, 211-228.
- Meissner, C. A. (2002). Applied aspects of the instructional bias effect in verbal overshadowing. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 911-928.
- Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2001). A meta-analysis of the verbal overshadowing effect in face identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, 603-616.
- Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C. (2001). Thirty years of investigating the own-race bias in memory for faces: A meta-analytic review. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 7, 3-35.
- Meissner, C. A., Brigham, J. C., & Butz, D. A. (2005). Memory for own- and other-race faces: A dual-process approach. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 545-567.
- Meissner, C. A., Brigham, J. C., & Kelley, C. M. (2001). The influence of retrieval processes in verbal overshadowing. Memory & Cognition, 29, 176-186.
- Meissner, C. A., & Kassin, S. M. (2002). “He’s guilty!”: Investigator bias in judgments of truth and deception. Law & Human Behavior, 26, 469-480.
- Meissner, C. A., Sporer, S. L., & Susa, K. J. (2008). A theoretical review and meta-analysis of the description-identification relationship in memory for faces. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
- Meissner, C. A., Tredoux, C. G., Parker, J. F., & MacLin, O. H. (2005). Eyewitness decisions in simultaneous and sequential lineups: A dual-process signal detection theory analysis. Memory & Cognition, 33, 783-792.
- Mitchell, T. L., Haw, R. M., Pfeifer, J. E., & Meissner, C. A. (2005). Racial bias in mock juror decision-making: A meta-analytic review of defendant treatment. Law & Human Behavior, 29, 621-637.
- Neuschatz, J. S., Lawson, D. S., Swanner, J. K., Meissner, C. A., & Neuschatz, J. S. (in press). The effects of accomplice witnesses and jailhouse informants on jury decision making. Law & Human Behavior.
- Russano, M. B., Meissner, C. A., Narchet, F. M., & Kassin, S. M. (2005). Investigating true and false confessions within a novel experimental paradigm. Psychological Science, 16, 481-486.
Courses Taught:
- Actual Innocence and Wrongful Conviction
- Cognitive Processes
- Human Learning and Remembering
- Introduction to Psychology
- Psychology of Investigative Interviewing
- Social Cognition
Christian A. Meissner
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at El Paso
500 West University Avenue
El Paso, Texas 79968
United States of America
- Phone: (915) 747-6056
- Fax: (915) 747-6553