Melissa Colloff, PhD

 2025

Kite, C., Murphy, A., & Colloff, M.F. (2025). Dark Triad Traits, Sex, and Social Desirability as Predictors of NonConsensual Intimate Media Sharing Proclivity, Enjoyment, and Approval in UK University Students. Behavioural Sciences, 15(6), 781. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15060781

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Buchanan et al. (2025). Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages. OSF Preprints. [Preprint]

 

Hayre, R. K., Ingham, M. P., Smith, S., Findel, B., Sargent, C. & Colloff, M. F. (2025). The developmental trajectories of implicit and explicit metacognitive monitoring and control in cued recall. PsyArXiv Preprints. [Preprint]

 

Ingham, M. P., Gibbs, B. D., Colloff, M. F., Stevens, L. M., Edwards, O. M., Rockowitz, S. R., Hayre, R. K., Butt, M., Morris, C. A., & Flowe, H. D. (2025). The effects of acute alcohol intoxication on metamemory processes and accuracy when recalling a rape scenario. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 39(2), e70038. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70038​​

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2024

Williams, C. E. & Colloff, M. F. (2024). Child witness reliability: A qualitative exploration of professional perceptions. Journal of Forensic Psychology Resarch and Pratice. https://doi.org/10.1080/24732850.2024.2431260

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Wilson, B. M., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., & Colloff, M. F. (2024). Feeling the future of eyewitness research. Cognition, 251, 105879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105879

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Deering, K., Colloff, M. F., Bennett, T. C. & Flowe, H. D. (2024). Does presenting perpetrator and innocent suspect faces from different facial angles influence the susceptibility of eyewitness memory? An investigation into the misinformation effect and eyewitness misidentification. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1213996

 

2023

Roswell, K. & Colloff, M. F. (2023). Critique of a measure of interrogative suggestibility for children: The Bonn test of statement suggestibility. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38(1), e4145. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4145

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Meyer, M., Colloff, M. F., Bennett, T. C., Hirata, E., Kohl, A., Stevens, L. M., Smith, H. M. J., Staudigl, T., & Flowe, H. D. (2023). Enabling witnesses to actively explore faces and reinstate study-test pose during a lineup increases discriminability. PNAS, 120(41). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2301845120

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Rowsell, K., Kloess, J., Fairclough, S., & Colloff, M. F. (2023). "Every young person is differnt": A qualitative analysis of professionals' perspectives on the introduction of Section 28 pre-trial cross-examination. Thames Valley Police Journal.

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Rockowitz, S., Rockey, J., Stevens, L. M., Colloff, M. F., Kanja, W., & Flowe, H. D. (2023). Evaluating Case Attrition along the Medico-Legal Case Referral Pathway for Sexual and Domestic Violence Survivors in Kenya: A Secondary Data Analysis. Victims and Offenders. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2023.2214550.

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Shen, K. J., Colloff, M. F., Vul, E., Wilson, B. M., & Wixted, J. T.  (2023). Modeling Face Similarity in Police Lineups. Psychological Review, 130(2), 432-461. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000408.

2022

Colloff, M. F., Flowe, H. D., Smith, H. J., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Meissner, C. A., Rockey, J. C., Pande, B., Kujur, P., Parveen, N., Chandel, P., Singh, M. M., Pradhan, & S., Parganiha, A. (2022). Active exploration of faces in police lineups increases discrimination accuracy. American Psychologist, 77(2), 196-220. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000832.

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Dorison, C. A., et al. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3, 577–602. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3. 

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Nguyen, T. et al. (2022). A Global Experiment on Motivating Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(22), e2111091119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111091119. 

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2021​

Colloff, M. F., Wilson, B. M., & Flowe, H. D. (2021). Legal System v. Eyewitness: The jury is still out for who is better able to reduce eyewitness error (variance). Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10, 200–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.04.001

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Winsor, A., Flowe, H. D., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Killeen, I. M., Hett, D., Jores, T., *Ingham, M., Lee, B., Stevens, L., & Colloff, M. F. (2021). Children’s expressions of certainty are informative. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 150(11), 2387-2407. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001049. 

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Rowsell, K., & Colloff, M. F. (2021). Are sad children more believable?: A systematic review of the relationship between emotional demeanour of child witnesses and juror credibility judgements. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 28(10), 943-966. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2021.1972109. 

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Wang, K., et al. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behavior, 5, 1089–1110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x

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Colloff, M. F., Wilson, B. M., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., & Wixted, J. T. (2021). Optimizing the Selection of Fillers in Police Lineups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118, 8, e2017292118. 

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Colloff, M. F., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Karagolu, N., Rockey, J. C., Smith, H. J., Smith, L., Maltby, J., Yaremenko, S., & Flowe, H. D. (2021). Perpetrator pose reinstatement during a lineup test increases discrimination accuracy. Scientific Reports, 11, 13830. 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92509-0. 

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Smith, H. M. J.,  Andrews, S., Baguley, T. S., Colloff, M. F., Davis, J. P., & White, D., Rockey, J. C., & Flowe, H. D. (2021). Performance of normal and superior face recognisers on a novel interactive face matching procedure. British Journal of Psychology, 112(4), 964-991. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12499. 

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Rockowitz, R., Stevens, L. M., Rockey, J. C., Smith, L., Richie, J., Colloff, M. F., Kanja, W., Cotton, J., & Flowe, H. (2021). Patterns of Violence Against Adults and Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Kenya. BMJ Global Health.

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Stevens, L. M., Rockey, J. C., Rockowitz, S., Kanja, W., Colloff, M. F., & Flowe, H. D. (2021). Children's Vulnerability to Sexual Violence During COVID-19 in Kenya: Recommendations for the Future. Frontiers in Global Women’s Health. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2021.630901

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Jones, B., et al. (2021). To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour [Registered Report], 5, 159–169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2-020-01007-2

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Ingham, M. P., Colloff, M. F., Smith, H. M. J., & Flowe, H. (2021). Innovating eyewitness identification procedures: Bridging the gap between the basic and applied literatures. Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 6, 42-49.

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2020

 

Jones, B., et al. (2020). Social perception of faces around the world: How well does the valence-dominance model generalize across world regions? Nature Human Behavior. [Registered Report], 5, 159–169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2-020-01007-2

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Butt, M. M., Magner, E., Colloff, M. F., & Flowe, H. D. (2020). Eyewitness memory in the news can affect the strategic regulation of memory reporting. Memory, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1846750

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Colloff, M. F., & Wixted, J. T. (2020). Why are lineups better than showups? A test of the filler siphoning and enhanced discriminability accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26, 124–143. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000218 [Supplemental material].

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2019

Seale-Carlisle, T., Colloff, M. F., Flowe, H. D., Wells, W., Wixted, J. T., & Mickes, L. (2019). Confidence and response time as indicators of eyewitness identification accuracy in the lab and in the real world. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 420-428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.09.003

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Jores, T., Colloff, M. F., Kloft, L., Smailes, H., & Flowe, H.D. (2019). A meta-analysis of the effects of acute alcohol intoxication on witness recall. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33, 334–343. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3533

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2018

Colloff, M. F., Wade, K. A., Strange, D., & Wixted, J. T. (2018). Filler siphoning theory does not predict the effect of lineup fairness on the ability to discriminate innocent from guilty suspects: Reply to Smith, Wells, Smalarz, & Lampinen (2018). Psychological Science, 29, 1552-1557. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618786459 [Supplemental material].

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2017

Colloff, M. F., Wade, K. A., Wixted, J. T., & Maylor, E. A. (2017). A signal-detection analysis of eyewitness identification across the adult lifespan. Psychology and Aging, 32, 243–258. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000168 [Supplemental material].

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Flowe, H. D., Colloff, M. F., Karoğlu, N., Zelek, K., Ryder, H., Humphries, J. E., & Takarangi, M. K. T. (2017). The effects of alcohol intoxication on accuracy and the confidence-accuracy relationship in photographic simultaneous lineups. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31, 379–391. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3332

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2016

Colloff, M. F., Wade, K. A., & Strange, D. (2016). Unfair lineups make witnesses more likely to confuse innocent and guilty suspects. Psychological Science, 27, 1227–1239. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616655789 [Supplemental material].

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Colloff, M. F., & Flowe, H. D. (2016). The effects of acute alcohol intoxication on the cognitive mechanisms underlying false facial recognition. Psychopharmacology, 233, 2139–2149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-016-4263-4

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Colloff, M. F. (2016). The real mark of madness? PsyPAG Quarterly, 100, 6–8.

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2014

Flowe, H. D., Klatt, T., & Colloff, M. F. (2014). Selecting fillers on emotional appearance improves lineup identification accuracy. Law and Human Behavior, 38, 509–519.

https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000101

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Alogna, V. K., Attaya, M. K., Aucoin, P., Bahnik, S., Birch, S., Birt, A. R., et al. (2014). Registered Replication Report: Schooler & Engstler-Schooler (1990). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9, 556–578. doi:10.1177/1745691614545653