Nathan Weber
My current research is focussed on applied and theoretical apsects of
metacognition. Basic projects include investigation of the cognitive mechanisms
underlying confidence judgments about positive and negative recognition
decisions, models of monitoring and control processes in episodic memory,
and confidence in guesses. Applied projects are centred around eyewitness
memory issues and include metacognitive influences on choosing in eyewitness
identification (with Neil Brewer and Gary Wells,
Iowa State University), regulation of reporting of eyewitness memories,
and discriminating accurate from inaccurate eyewitness identification
decisions. Additionally, recent work has investigated metacognition and
ageing (with Tim Perfect, University of Plymouth).
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Publications (2006 - )
Sauer, J. D., Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2008, in press). Multiple
confidence estimates as indices of eyewitness memory. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General.
Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2008, in press). Eyewitness confidence
and latency: Indices of memory processes not just markers of accuracy.
Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Weber, N., Brewer, N., & Margitich, S. (2008, in press). The confidence-accuracy
relation in eyewitness identification: Effects of verbal versus numeric
confidence scales. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Applied psychological research.
Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
Weber, N., & Brewer, N. (2008). Response latency and eyewitness
identification. In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology
and law (pp. 692-693). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Brewer, N., Weber, N., Clark, A., & Wells, G. L. (2008, in press).
Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate eyewitness identifications with
an optional deadline procedure. Psychology, Crime and Law.
Weber, N., & Brewer, N. (2008, in press). Eyewitness recall: Regulation
of grain size and the role of confidence. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Applied.
Brewer, N., Weber, N., & Semmler, C. (2007). A role for theory
in eyewitness identification research. In R. C. L. Lindsay, D. F. Ross,
J. D. Read, & M. Toglia (Eds.), Handbook of eyewitness psychology:
Volume 2: Memory for people. (pp. 201-218). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence
Erlbaum.
Brewer, N., Caon, A., Todd, C., & Weber, N. (2006). Eyewitness
identification accuracy and response latency. Law and Human Behavior,
30, 31-50.
Weber, N., & Brewer, N. (2006). Positive versus negative face recognition
decisions: Confidence, accuracy, and response latency. Applied Cognitive
Psychology, 20, 17-31.
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Research Grants (2006 -)
Weber, N., & Perfect, T. J. Improving eyewitness identification
accuracy using free-report lineups. 2008-10, $206,000, ARC Discovery
Project.
Weber, N., & Perfect, T. Monitoring, control and face recognition
memory in older and younger adults: Memory for older versus younger
faces. 2006, £13,610 (˜$33,200), British Academy Visiting
Fellowship.
Weber, N. Control of memory reporting in older and younger adults.
2006, $3,270, Faculty Research Support Grant, Faculty of Social
Sciences, Flinders University.
Weber, N. The impact of free-report on face recognition accuracy:
Positive versus negative decisions. 2006, $2,000, Faculty Research
Support Grant, Faculty of Social Sciences, Flinders University.
Brewer, N., Wells, G. L., & Weber, N. Eyewitness identification:
Metacognitive influences on choosing behaviour. 2005-09, $371,000,
ARC Discovery Project.
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Conference Papers (2006 -)
Palmer, M., Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2007, July). Using confidence
and latency to discriminate correct from incorrect eyewitness identification
decisions in a multiple-lineup task. Seventh Biennial Meeting of
the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Lewiston,
USA.
Sauer, J., Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2007, July). Identifying the
culprit using patterns of confidence judgments across simultaneous lineup
members. Seventh Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research
in Memory and Cognition, Lewiston, USA.
Weber, N., Woodard, L., & Williamson, P. (2007, July). Inclusion
and elimination strategies and the confidence-accuracy relationship
in face recognition. Seventh Biennial Meeting of the Society for
Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Lewiston, USA.
Williamson, P., & Weber, N. (2007, July). Exploring confidence judgments
when guessing. Seventh Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied
Research in Memory and Cognition, Lewiston, USA.
Weber, N., & Perfect, T. (2007, April). Response biases and reporting
biases: Free-report recognition by older and younger adults. 34th
Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Canberra, ACT.
Woodard, L., Weber, N., & Williamson, P. (2007, April). The confidence-accuracy
relationship in face recognition: Inclusion and elimination strategies.
34th Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Canberra,
ACT.
Palmer, M., Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2006, July). How do eyewitnesses
respond when presented with both target-present and target-absent lineups?
The 4th International Conference on Memory, University of New
South Wales, Australia.
Sauer, J., Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2006, July). The diagnosticity
of multiple eyewitness confidence assessments. The 4th International
Conference on Memory, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Weber, N., Hogan, A., & Williamson, P. (2006, July). The confidence-accuracy
relationship for positive and negative decisions. 4th International
Conference on Memory, Sydney, Australia.
Weber, N., Hogan, A., & Williamson, P. (2006, July). Do we know
what we don’t know? A comparison of the confidence-accuracy relationship
for positive and negative recognition decisions. Spring Meeting
of the Experimental Psychology Society, Plymouth, UK.
Weber, N., Coleman, B., & Brewer, N. (2006, June). Quantity and
accuracy in face recognition: Positive versus negative decisions. 16th
European Conference of Psychology and Law, Liverpool, UK.
Palmer, M., Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2006, April). One crime, one
suspect, two decisions: Eyewitness identifications from target-present
and target-absent lineups. 33rd Australasian Experimental Psychology
Conference, Brisbane, Queensland.
Sauer, J., Brewer, N., & Weber, N. (2006, April). Using multiple
confidence estimates to discriminate seen from unseen faces. 33rd
Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Brisbane, Queensland.
Weber, N., Coleman, B., & Brewer, N. (2006, April). Monitoring and
control processes in face recognition memory. 33rd Australasian
Experimental Psychology Conference, Brisbane, Queensland.
Lindsay, R. C. L., Semmler, C., Weber, N., Brewer, N., & Lindsay,
M. R. (2006, March). Distance and eyewitness identification accuracy:
Opposition to the 15 meter rule. American Psychology-Law Society,
St. Petersburg, USA.
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