JOURNAL ARTICLES
Pezdek, K., Shapland, T., & Barragan, J. (2024): Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians, Psychology, Crime & Law, DOI: 10.1080/1068316X.2024.2319313
Pezdek, K. & Lerer, T. (2023). The new reality: Non-eyewitness identifications in a surveillance world. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231182582
Pezdek, K., & Lerer, T. (2023). Let’s go to the tape: Science-based standards for non-eyewitness identifications in a surveillance world. Criminal Law Bulletin. 59(1), 1-59.
Reisberg, D., & Pezdek, K. (2023). Police officers have no advantage over civilians when making identifications. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4158
Pezdek, K., & Reisberg, D. (2022). Psychological myths about evidence in the legal system: How should scientists respond? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(2), 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000037
Reisberg, D. & Pezdek, K. (2022). Myths about evidence in the legal system: Some clarifications. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11, 185-187. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000045
Pezdek, K., Shapland, T., & Barragan, J. (2022). Memory outcomes of police officers viewing their body-worn camera video. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(3), 392–404. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000013
Pezdek, K. (2022). Psychological research on the use of Body-Worn Cameras. In M. K. Miller & B. H. Bornstein (Eds.), Advances in psychology and law, Vol. 6. (pp. 39 – 62). Springer.
Pezdek, K. (2022, January/February). Four myths about eyewitness memory. Sheriff & Deputy Magazine. 74(1). 50-52.
Pezdek, K., Abed, E., & Cormia, A. (2021). Elevated stress impairs the accuracy of eyewitness memory but not the confidence–accuracy relationship. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(1), 158 - 169. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000316
Cormia, A., Shapland, T., Rasheed, A., & Pezdek, K. (2020). Laypeople’s beliefs about the effects of common estimator variables on memory. Memory. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1868527
Pezdek, K., Abed E., and Reisberg, D. (2020). Marijuana impairs the accuracy of eyewitness memory and the confidence-accuracy relationship too. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.11.005
Fenn, E., Ramsay, N., Kantner, J., Pezdek, K., & Abed, E. (2019). Nonprobative photos increase truth, like, and share judgments in a simulated social media environment. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 8(2), 131-138. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.04.005
Merson, B., & Pezdek, K. (2019). Target-related autobiographical memories affect dietary intake intentions. Memory, 27(10), 1438-1450, doi: 10.1080/09658211.2019.1674335
Nguyen, T.B., Abed, E., and Pezdek, K. (2018). Postdictive confidence (but not predictive confidence) predicts eyewitness memory accuracy. Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications. doi: 10.1186/s41235-018-0125-4
Wade, K.A., Garry, M., & Pezdek, K. (2018). De-constructing rich false memories of committing crime: Commentary on Shaw and Porter (2015). Psychological Science, 1-6. doi: 10.1177/0956797617703667
Nguyen, T. B., Pezdek, K., & Wixted, J. T. (2017). Evidence for a confidence-accuracy relationship in memory for same- and cross-race faces. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(12), 2518-2534. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1246578
Nguyen, T.B., & Pezdek, K. (2017). Memory for Disguised Same- and Cross-Race Faces: The Eyes Have It. Visual Cognition, 25(7-8), 762-769. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2017.1329762
Abed, E., Fenn, E., & Pezdek, K. (2017). Photographs elevate truth judgments about less well-known people (but not yourself). Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6(2), 203-209. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.01.007
Pezdek, K., & Blandón-Gitlin, I. (2017). It is just harder to construct memories for false autobiographical events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31(1), 42-44. doi: 10.1002/acp.3269
Merson, B., Pezdek, K., & Saywitz, K. (2016). A meta-analysis of children’s self-reports of dietary intake. Psychology and Health, 32(2), 186-203. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2016.1250274
Merson, B., & Pezdek, K. (2016). Response inhibition and interference suppression in restrained eating. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 3(5), 345-351. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2016.07.004
Marsh, B. U., Pezdek, K. & Ozery, D. H. (2016). The cross-race effect in face recognition memory by bicultural individuals. Acta Psychologica, 169, 38-44. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.05.003
Ho, M. R., & Pezdek, K. (2015). Post-encoding cognitive processes in the cross-race effect: Categorization and individuation during face recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 771-780. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0945-x
Marsh, B. U., Kanaya, T., & Pezdek, K. (2015). The language dependent recall effect influences the number of items in autobiographical memory reports. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27(7), 829-843. doi: 10.1080/20445911.2015.1046876
Blandón-Gitlin, I., Pezdek, K., Saldivar, S., Steelman, E. (2014). Oxytocin eliminates the own-race bias in face recognition memory. Brain Research, 1580, 180-187. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2013.07.015
McGuire, M., & Pezdek, K. (2014). Birds of a feather get misidentified together: High entitativity decreases recognition accuracy for groups of other‐race faces. Legal and Criminological Psychology 21(1), doi:10.1111/lcrp.12066
Marsh, B. U., Pezdek, K., & Lam, S. T. (2014). Imagination perspective affects ratings of the likelihood of occurrence of autobiographical memories. Acta Psychologica, 20, 114-119. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.05.006
Pezdek, K., & Stolzenberg, S. (2014). Are individuals’ familiarity judgments diagnostic of prior contact? Psychology, Crime, & Law. 20(4), 302-314. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2013772181
Pezdek, K., & O’Brien, M. (2013). Plea bargaining and appraisals of eyewitness evidence by prosecutors and defense attorneys. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 20(3), 222-241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2013.770855
Fenn, E., Newman, E.J., Pezdek, K., & Garry, M. (2013). The effect of nonprobative photographs on truthiness persists over time. Acta Psychologica, 144, 207-211. doi://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.06.004
Stolzenberg, S., & Pezdek, K. (2012). Interviewing child witnesses: The effect of forced confabulation on event memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 114(1), 77-88. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2012.09.006
Pezdek, K., O'Brien, M., & Wasson, C. (2011). Cross-race (but not same-race) face identification is impaired by presenting faces in a group rather than individually. Law and Human Behavior, 36(6), 488-495. doi: 10.1037/h0093933
Gombos, V., Pezdek, K., & Haymond, K. (2011). Forced confabulation affects memory sensitivity as well as response bias. Memory & Cognition, 40(1), 127-134. doi: 10.3758/s13421-011-0129-5.
Pezdek, K. & Salim, R. (2011). Physiological, psychological and behavioral consequences of activating autobiographical memories. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 46(6), 1214-1218. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2011.05.004
Pezdek, K., Avila-Mora, E., & Sperry, K. (2010). Does trial presentation medium matter in jury simulation research? Evaluating the effectiveness of eyewitness expert testimony. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24(5), 673-690. doi:10.1002/acp.1578
Pezdek, K., & Freyd, J. J. (2009). The fallacy of generalizing from egg salad in false belief research. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 9(1), 177-183. doi:10.1111/j.1530-2415.2009.01178.x
Pezdek, K. (2009). Grading student papers: Reducing faculty workload while improving feedback to students. APS Observer 22 (9).
Pezdek, K., Lam, S. T., & Sperry, K. (2009). Forced confabulation more strongly influences event memory if suggestions are other-generated than self-generated. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 14(2), 241-252. doi:10.1348/135532508X344773
Blandon-Gitlin, I., Pezdek, K., Lindsay, S.D., & Hagan, L. (2009). Criteria-based content analysis of true and suggested accounts of events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(7), 901-917. doi:10.1002/acp.1504
Kleider, H.M., Pezdek, K., Goldinger, S.D., & Kirk, A. (2008). Schema-driven source misattribution errors: Remembering the expected from a witnessed event. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22(1), 1-20. doi:10.1002/acp.1361
Pezdek, K. & Blandon-Gitlin, I., (2008). Planting false memories for childhood sexual abuse only happens to emotionally disturbed people… not me or my friends. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(2), 162-169. doi:10.1002/acp.1466
Goodman, G.S., Sayfan, L., Lee, J.S., Sandhei, M., Walle-Olsen, A., Magnussen, S., Pezdek, K., & Arrdeondo, P. (2007). The development of memory for own- and other-race faces. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 98(4), 233-242. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2007.08.004
Pezdek, K., Sperry, K., & Owens, S.M., (2007). Interviewing witnesses: The effect of forced confabulation on event memory. Law and Human Behavior 31(5), 463–478. doi:10.1007/s10979-006-9081-5
Pezdek, K. (2007). It's just not good science. Consciousness & Cognition, 16(1), 29-30. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2006.05.006
Pezdek, K. & Lam, S. (2007). What research paradigms have cognitive psychologists used to study "false memory," and what are the implications of these choices? Consciousness & Cognition, 16(1), 2-17. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2005.06.006
Pezdek, K., Blandon-Gitlin, I., Lam, S., Hart, R.E. & Schooler, J. (2007). Is knowing believing?: The role of event plausibility and background knowledge in planting false beliefs about the personal past. Memory & Cognition. Vol 34, 1628-1635.
Pezdek, K., Blandon-Gitlin, I. & Gabbay, P. (2006). Imagination and memory: Does imagining implausible events lead to false autobiographical memories? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 13(5), 764-769. doi:10.3758/BF03193994
Pezdek, K. & Blandon-Gitlin, I. (2005). When is an intervening lineup most likely to affect eyewitness identification accuracy? Legal and Criminological Psychology Vol 10(2), 247-263. doi:10.1348/135532505X49846
Blandon-Gitlin, I., Pezdek, K, Rogers, M. & Brodie, L. (2005). Detecting deception in children: An experimental study of the effect of event familiarity on CBCA ratings. Law & Human Behavior, 29(2), 187-197. doi:10.1007/s10979-005-2417-8
Freyd, J.J., Putnam, F.W., Lyon, T.D., Becher-Blease, K.A., Cheit, R.E., Siegel, N.B. & Pezdek, K. (2005). The science of child sexual abuse. Science, 308, 501. doi:10.1126/science.1108066
Pezdek, K., et al. (2004). Detecting deception in children: Event familiarity affects criterion based content analysis ratings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89(1), 119-126. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.89.1.119
Pezdek, K. (2003). Event memory and autobiographical memory for the events of September 11, 2001. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17(9), 1033-1045. doi:10.1002/acp.984
Pezdek. K., Blandón-Gitlin, I., & Moore, C. (2003). Children’s face recognition memory: More evidence for the cross-race effect. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88(4), 760-763. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.88.4.760
Pezdek, K., Berry, T., & Renno, P.A. (2002). Children’s mathematical achievement: The role of parents’ perceptions and their involvement in homework. Journal of Educational Psychology, 94(4), 771-777. doi:10.1037/0022-0663.94.4.771
Pezdek, K. (2002). Teaching psychology in the context of a university-community partnership. Teaching of Psychology, 29(2), 157-159.
Pezdek, K., & Eddy, R. M. (2001). Imagination inflation: A statistical artifact of regression toward the mean. Memory and Cognition, 29(5), 707-718. doi:10.3758/BF03200473
Hinz, T., & Pezdek, K. (2001). The effect of exposure to multiple lineups on face identification accuracy. Law and Human Behavior, 25(2), 185-198. doi:10.1023/A:1005697431830
Pezdek, K. (2001). A cognitive analysis of the role of suggestibility in explaining memories for abuse. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 4(2). doi: 10.1300/J146v04n02_04 [Reprinted in J. J. Freyd & A. P. DePrince (Eds.). Trauma and Cognitive Science. Haworth Press: San Diego, CA.]
Finger, K. & Pezdek, K. (1999). The effect of the cognitive interview on face identification accuracy: Release from verbal overshadowing. Journal of Applied Psychology, 84(3), 340- 348. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.84.3.340
Pezdek, K., & Hodge, D. (1999). Planting false childhood memories in children: The role of event plausibility. Child Development, 70(4), 887-895. doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00064
Underwood, J., & Pezdek, K. (1998). Memory suggestibility as an example of the sleeper effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5(3), 449-453. doi:10.3758/BF03208820
Arrigo, J. M., & Pezdek, K. (1997). Lessons from the study of psychogenic amnesia. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 6, 148-152. [Reprinted in Oltmanns, T. F. & Emery, R. E. (Eds.).(2004). Current directions in abnormal psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc.
Pezdek, K., Finger, K., & Hodge, D. (1997). Planting false childhood memories: The role of event plausibility. Psychological Science, 8(6), 437-441. doi: 10.1111/j.1467- 9280.1997.tb00457.x
Pezdek, K., & Roe, C. (1997). The suggestibility of children's memory for being touched: Planting, erasing, and changing memories. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 95-106. doi: 10.1023/A:1024870127516
Pezdek, K., & Roe, C. (1995). The effect of memory trace strength on suggestibility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 60, 116-128. doi:10.1006/jecp.1995.1034
Pezdek, K., & Roe, C. (1994). Memory for childhood events: How suggestible is it? Consciousness and Cognition, 3, 374-387. doi:10.1006/ccog.1994.1021
Pezdek, K. (1994). The illusion of illusory memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 8, 339- 350. doi:10.1002/acp.2350080404
Pezdek, K. (1994). Avoiding false claims of child sexual abuse: Empty promises. Family Relations, 43, 258-260. [Reprinted in Baker, R. A. (Ed.). (1998). Child sexual abuse and false memory syndrome. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.]
Pezdek, K., & Prull, M. (1993). Fallacies in memory for conversations: Reflections on Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the like. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7, 299-310. doi: 10.1002/acp.2350070404
Pezdek, K., & Greene, J. (1993). Testing eyewitness memory: Developing a measure that is more resistant to suggestibility. Law and Human Behavior, 17(3), 361-369. doi:10.1007/BF01044514
Holst, V. F., & Pezdek, K. (1992). Scripts for typical crimes and their effects on memory for eyewitness testimony. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6(7), 573-587. doi:10.1002/acp.2350060702
Reynolds, J. K., & Pezdek, K. (1992). Face recognition memory: The effects of exposure duration and encoding instructions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6(4), 279-292. doi:10.1002/acp.2350060402
Pezdek, K. et al. (1989). Memory for real world scenes: The role of consistency with schema expectation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 15(4), 587-595. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.15.4.587
Pezdek, K. et al. (1988). Picture memory: Recognizing added and deleted details. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 14(3), 468-476. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.14.3.468
Pezdek, K., Simon, S., Stoeckert, J., & Kieley, J. (1987). Individual differences in television comprehension. Memory & Cognition, 15(5), 428-435. doi:10.3758/BF03197732
Pezdek, K. (1987). Memory for pictures: A life-span study of the role of visual detail. Child Development, 58(3), 807-815. doi:10.2307/1130218
Pezdek, K., Roman, Z., & Sobolik, K. G. (1986). Spatial memory for objects and words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12(6), 530-537. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.12.4.530
Pezdek, K. (1985). Debunking some myths regarding cognitive processing of television. Television and Children, 8(4), 41-46.
Pezdek, K., Lehrer, A., & Simon, S. (1984). The relationship between reading and cognitive processing of television and radio. Child Development, 55(6), 2072-2082. doi:10.2307/1129780
Runco, M. A., & Pezdek, K. (1984). The effect of television and radio on children's creativity. Human Communication Research, 11, 109-120. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1984.tb00040.x
Pezdek, K., & Stevens, E. (1984). Children's memory for auditory and visual information on television. Developmental Psychology, 20(2), 212-218. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.20.2.212
Pezdek, K., & Hartman, E. F. (1983). Children's television viewing: Attention and comprehension of auditory versus visual information. Child Development, 54(4), 1015-1023. doi:10.2307/1129905
Pezdek, K. (1983). Memory for items and their spatial locations by young and elderly adults. Developmental Psychology, 19(6), 895-900. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.19.6.895
Evans, G. W., Smith, C., & Pezdek, K. (1982). Cognitive maps and urban form. Journal of the American Planning Association, 48(2), 232-244. doi:10.1080/01944368208976543
Pezdek, K., & Chen, H-C. (1982). Developmental differences in the role of detail in picture recognition memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 33(2), 207-215. doi:10.1016/0022-0965(82)90016-9
Pezdek, K., & Miceli, L. (1982). Life-span differences in memory integration as a function of processing time. Developmental Psychology, 18(3), 485-490. doi:10.1037/0012- 1649.18.3.485
Pezdek, K. (1980). Life-span differences in semantic integration of pictures and sentences in memory. Child Development, 51, 720-729. doi:10.2307/1129457
Evans, G. W., & Pezdek, K. (1980). Cognitive mapping: Knowledge of real world distance and location information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 13-24. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.6.1.13
Pezdek, K., & Evans, G. W. (1979). Visual and verbal memory for objects and their spatial locations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 5(4), 360-373. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.5.4.360
Pezdek, K. (1978). Recognition memory for related pictures. Memory & Cognition, 6, 64-69. doi:10.3758/BF03197429
Kantorowitz, D., Walters, J., & Pezdek, K. (1978). Positive versus negative self-monitoring in the self-control of smoking. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46(5), 148-150. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.46.5.1148
Pezdek, K. (1977). Cross-modality semantic integration of sentence and picture memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 3(5), 515-524. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.3.5.515
Pezdek, K., & Royer, J. M. (1974). The role of comprehension in learning concrete and abstract sentences. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13(5), 551-558. doi:10.1016/S0022-5371(74)80008-3
Myers, J. L., Pezdek, K., & Coulson, D. (1973). Effects of prose organization upon free recall. Journal of Educational Psychology, 65(3), 313-320. doi:10.1037/h0035507