Melissa Colloff, PhD

2023

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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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. [Preprint].

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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. [Preprint].

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 Shen, K. J., Colloff, M. F., Vul, E., Wilson, B. M., & Wixted, J. T.  (2022). Modeling Face Similarity in Police Lineups. Psychological Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000408. [Preprint].

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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. [Preprint].

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Rowsell, K., & Colloff, M. F. (2021). Displaying the “Appropriate” Level of Sadness: A Systematic Review of the Relationship Between Emotional Demeanour of Child Witnesses and Juror Credibility Judgements. Psychology, Crime, & Law. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2021.1972109. [Preprint].

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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. [Preprint].

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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. [Preprint].

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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. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12499. [Preprint].

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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