Charman, Stephen

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Charman, Stephen Graduate Faculty

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Professor, Psychology , College of Arts, Sciences & Education

charmans@fiu.edu

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Stephen Charman earned his B. S. Psychology (Honours) from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada and later his M.S. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa).

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Article
- 2024
  
  Case Information Biases Evaluations of Video-Recorded Eyewitness Identification Evidence. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 13:292-305.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/mac0000126 Web of Science: 001108558000001
- 2022
  
  The Ability to Infer Witness Accuracy From High-Confidence Lineup Identifications Is Undermined by the Appearance-Change Instruction and Target Appearance Change. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 28:491-504.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/law0000368 Web of Science: 000875179100001
- 2022
  
  Assessing the Effect of Eyewitness Identification Confidence Assessment Method on the Confidence-Accuracy Relationship. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 28:414-432.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/law0000348 Web of Science: 000790484100001
- 2021
  
  Pre-Identification Confidence Is Related to Eyewitness Lineup Identification Accuracy Across Heterogeneous Encoding Conditions. Law and Human Behavior. 45:524-541.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000452 Web of Science: 000731153300004
- 2020
  
  Enhancing Innocent Suspects' Memories for Corroborating Alibi Evidence. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 26:442-454.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/law0000264 Web of Science: 000592945600004
- 2019
  
  Non-blind lineup administration biases administrators' interpretations of ambiguous witness statements and their perceptions of the witness. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 33:1260-1270.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/acp.3579 Web of Science: 000497304400023
- 2018
  
  Showup identification decisions for multiple perpetrator crimes: Testing for sequential dependencies. PLoS ONE. 13.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0208403 Web of Science: 000452307600057
- 2018
  
  Registered Replication Report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 1:299-317.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/2515245918781032 Web of Science: 000746371200001
- 2018
  
  Registered Replication Report on Srull and Wyer (1979). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 1:321-336.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/2515245918777487 Web of Science: 000746371200003
- 2017
  
  Cognitive Bias in the Legal System: Police Officers Evaluate Ambiguous Evidence in a Belief-Consistent Manner. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 6:193-202.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.02.001 Web of Science: 000404094900015
- 2017
  
  The (Un)reliability of Alibi Corroborators: Failure to Recognize Faces of Briefly Encountered Strangers Puts Innocent Suspects at Risk. Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 35:18-36.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2264 Web of Science: 000399655300003
- 2016
  
  Blind Sequential Lineup Administration Reduces Both False Identifications and Confidence in Those False Identifications. Law and Human Behavior. 40:477-487.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000197 Web of Science: 000384575200001
- 2016
  
  Schema reliance and innocent alibi generation. Legal and Criminological Psychology. 21:111-126.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/lcrp.12035 Web of Science: 000368822900008
- 2013
  
  Appearance-Change Instruction Effects on Eyewitness Lineup Identification Accuracy Are Not Moderated by Amount of Appearance Change. Law and Human Behavior. 37:432-440.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000049 Web of Science: 000327858400006
- 2013
  
  Is this Injury Reasonable? Do Psychological Injury Expectations Affect Mock Jurors' Legal Decisions in a Sexual Harassment Case?. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. 20:834-852.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2012.744626 Web of Science: 000328244300004
- 2013
  
  The Effect of Suspect-Filler Similarity on Eyewitness Identification Decisions: A Meta-Analysis. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 19:151-164.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0030618 Web of Science: 000318146000003
- 2012
  
  Age-progressed images may harm recognition of missing children by increasing the number of plausible targets. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 1:171-178.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2012.07.008 Web of Science: 000209365100005
- 2012
  
  Age-progressed images may harm recognition of missing children by increasing the number of plausible targets. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 1:171-178.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/h0101795
- 2012
  
  Witnesses' memories for lineup fillers postdicts their identification accuracy. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 1:11-17.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2011.08.001 Web of Science: 000209364900003
- 2012
  
  'But can you prove it?' - examining the quality of innocent suspects' alibis. Psychology, Crime & Law : PC & L. 18:453-471.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2010.505567 Web of Science: 000304270500003
- 2011
  
  The Dud Effect: Adding Highly Dissimilar Fillers Increases Confidence in Lineup Identifications. Law and Human Behavior. 35:479-500.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10979-010-9261-1 Web of Science: 000294262700005
- 2010
  
  The Selective Cue Integration Framework: A Theory of Postidentification Witness Confidence Assessment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 16:204-218.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0019495 Web of Science: 000279026000008
- 2009
  
  Exploring the Diagnostic Utility of Facial Composites: Beliefs of Guilt Can Bias Perceived Similarity Between Composite and Suspect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 15:76-90.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/a0014682 Web of Science: 000264356600008
- 2007
  
  Eyewitness lineups: Is the appearance-change instruction a good idea?. Law and Human Behavior. 31:3-22.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10979-006-9006-3
- 2005
  
  Building face composites can harm lineup identification performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 11:147-156.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/1076-898X.11.3.147
- 2002
  
  The confidence of eyewitnesses in their identifications from lineups. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 11:151-154.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00189
- Effects of cannabis on eyewitness memory: A field study. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 32:420-428.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/acp.3414 Web of Science: 000437103400002
- Evidence Evaluation and Evidence Integration in Legal Decision-Making: Order of Evidence Presentation as a Moderator of Context Effects. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 30:214-225.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/acp.3181 Web of Science: 000372886500008
- The Moderating Effect of Ecphoric Experience on Post-identification Feedback: A Critical Test of the Cues-based Inference Conceptualization. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 26:243-250.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/acp.1815 Web of Science: 000300971000009
- The effect of biased lineup instructions on eyewitness identification confidence. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 32:287-297.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/acp.3401 Web of Science: 000431618800001
Book Chapter
- 2022
  
  Towards a system variable approach to improving the quality of alibi evidence. 55-73.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95663-9_5
- 2007
  
  Applied lineup theory. 219-254.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9780203936368-16
Conference
- 2008
  
  Can eyewitnesses correct for external influences on their lineup identifications? The actual/counterfactual assessment paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 5-20.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/1076-898X.14.1.5 Web of Science: 000254813000002
Other Scholarly Work
- 2013
  
  The forensic confirmation bias: A problem of evidence integration, not just evidence evaluation. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 56-58.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.01.010 Web of Science: 000209365300009
Review
- 2003
  
  Distorted Retrospective Eyewitness Reports as Functions of Feedback and Delay. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 42-52.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1037/1076-898X.9.1.42

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- Confirmation bias among interpreters in an interrogative setting awarded by Federal Bureau of Investigation 2015 - 2017

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