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My work involves
both basic and applied questions concerning memory and cognition. The
main focus of my research concerns applying basic research in memory and
cognition to solve real world problems. Most recently this work has
focused on an issue we have called “prospective person memory”.
Prospective memory refers to remembering to engage in an action in the
future. In prospective person memory, the issue is how well people can
remember to engage in a particular response when they encounter a
particular person during their day to day activities. Specific
applications of this research include cases where the public is asked to
be on lookout for wanted fugitives, cases where authorities are on the
lookout for wanted terrorists, and cases where the public is asked to be
on the lookout for missing children.
A
major area right now in my lab concerns how best to protect
children from violence. One area we have been working on are
approaches to finding missing children. In one recent study we examined
whether supermarket posters are an effective way to find missing
children. We have also been doing work on the effectiveness of forensic
age progression. My students and I are also currently conducting research
on the use of the death penalty in child sexual abuse cases. I recently
co-chaired a conference entitled “Protecting Children from Violence:
Emerging Trends and Research.” The conference brought together top
national and international researchers to discuss the issue of how best
to protect children. We currently have a book proposal under review based
on this conference.
I
am also interested in the accuracy of eyewitness testimony when provided by
both children and adults. In this research my colleagues and I have shown
that social and cognitive factors interact to produce witness behavior. I
am also interested in the general issue of the relationship between
psychology and the legal system. Current topics of interest include jury
decision making in cases involving child witnesses, confession and
interrogation, and the accuracy confidence correlation in eyewitness
testimony.
I
have also published a great deal of research on memory illusions and
consciousness. If you consider your own memories carefully, you realize
that they vary greatly in terms of their subjective quality. Some
memories are vivid and detailed. They include information about
perceptual, contextual and emotional aspects of the event you are
remembering. Other memories are sparse and less subjectively compelling.
Much of my recent work has addressed the issue of the subjective
experience of remembering, the variables that influence that subjective
experience and whether the subjective experience of remembering is
similar for true and false memories.
Representative
Publications:
Psychology and the Law
Lampinen,
J.M., Arnal, J.D., & Hicks, J.L. (in press). Prospective person
memory. In M. Kelley (Ed.) Applied Memory.
Lampinen,
J.M., Arnal, J.D., & Hicks, J.L. (in press). The effectiveness of
supermarket posters in helping to find missing children. Journal of
Interpersonal Violence.
Lampinen,
J.M., Scott, J., Leding, J.K., Pratt, D. & Arnal, J.D. (in press).
“Good, You Identified the Suspect…But Please Ignore This Feedback”: Can
Warnings Eliminate the Effects of Post-Identification Feedback? Applied
Cognitive Psychology.
Lampinen,
J.M., Judges, D., Odegard, T.N., & Hamilton, S. (2005). The reactions
of mock jurors to the Department of Justice Guidelines for the collection
and preservation of eyewitness evidence. Basic and Applied Social
Psychology,27, 155-162.
Lampinen,
J.M. & Smith, V.L. (1995). The incredible (and sometimes incredulous)
child witness: Child eyewitnesses' sensitivity to source credibility
cues. Journal of Applied Psychology, 80, 621-627.
False Memories
Lampinen,
J.M., Ryals, D.B., & Smith, K. (in press). Compelling untruths: The
effect of retention interval on content borrowing and vivid false
memories. Memory.
Lampinen,
J.M., Leding, J.K., Reed, K.B., & Odegard, T.N. (2006). Global gist
extraction in children and adults. Memory, 14, 952-964.
Lampinen,
J.M., Meier, C., Arnal, J.A., & Leding, J.K. (2005). Compelling
untruths: Content borrowing and vivid false memories. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 31, 954-963.
Lampinen,
J.M., Odegard, T.N., Blackshear, E., & Toglia, M.P. (2005). Phantom
ROC. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Progress in Experimental Psychology
Research. Hauppauge NY: Nova.
Lampinen,
J.M., Odegard, T.N. & Neuschatz, J.S. (2004). Robust recollection rejection
in the memory conjunction paradigm. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 30, 332-342.
Lampinen,
J.M., Odegard, T.N. & Bullington, J. (2003). Qualities of memories
for performed and imagined actions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 881-893.
Lampinen,
J.M., Copeland, S.M. & Neuschatz, J.S. (2001). Recollections of
things schematic: Room schemas revisited. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 27, 1211-1222.
Lampinen, J.M., Neuschatz, J.S. and Payne, D.G.
(1998). Memory illusions and consciousness: Exploring the phenomenology
of true and false memories. Current Psychology, 16, 181-224.
Useful Links:
Protecting
Children from Violence
Personal Homepage
Psychology and Law Lab
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