ASRI – International Projects

One of the ASRI’s objectives is to develop new international research collaborations. Several projects have been funded to date, each involving a visit to the ASRI from international researchers (see below) who will develop new lines of research investigation with ASRI members.

Dr Amy Bradfield Douglass, Department of Psychology, Bates College, Maine

Dr Amy Bradfield Douglass is visiting the eyewitness laboratory during semester 2 , 2009. Her visit from the U.S. is supported by a Flinders University Visiting Research Fellowship. Amy’s research on the postidentification feedback effect – published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied – has had a major impact on the directions of eyewitness research and on international guidelines for the collection of eyewitness evidence. Amy is working on some new projects in this area with ASRI member, Neil Brewer, and Carolyn Semmler (University of Adelaide).

Dr Paul Wilson, Department of Psychology, University of Hull (UK).

Paul visited in August 2007 and worked with ASRI member, Dr Michael Tlauka, developing a new research program in the area of spatial cognition. Paul's research in this area is concerned with: spatial knowledge acquired through different media; comparative spatial learning; associative models versus cognitive mapping and geometric learning; and spatial learning from virtual environments by physically disabled people.

Dr Cameron Camp, Director, Myers Research Institute, Menorah Park Center for Senior Living, Ohio (USA).

Cameron visited in August 2007, and worked with Prof Mary Luszcz on the development of research programs around non-pharmacologic interventions for dementia. His research has focused on Montessori-based activity groups for persons with more advanced dementia, and on the use of spaced-retrieval and development of external aids as a means of enabling older adults with mild cognitive impairment or early stage dementia to better manage Type 2 diabetes.

Prof Pär Anders Granhag, Department of Psychology, Goteborg University, Goteborg (Sweden)

Pär Anders will be visiting in 2008, and working in Neil Brewer’s laboratory on how the behaviour(s) of both guilty and innocent suspects who are placed in eyewitness identification parades may contribute to their being identified or not identified by eyewitnesses. The bulk of Pär Anders’ research has been in the area of deception detection, with particular interest in non-verbal indicators of deception.

Dr Fiona Gabbert, Department of Psychology, University of Abertay, Dundee (Scotland)

Fiona will be visiting in the first half of 2008. She will also be working in Neil Brewer’s laboratory on how co-witnesses to a crime may influence each other during the conduct of eyewitness identification tests (or lineups). Fiona’s main research focus to date has been on memory conformity among co-witnesses to a crime.