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34 - A Multi-Decade Journey between the Lab and the Real World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

By
Gary L. Wells
Edited by
Saul Kassin
Saul Kassin
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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Summary

I suppose that growing up poor in a rough-and-tumble Midwestern town, replete with fist fights and run-ins with police, gave me some of my interest in the legal system and fed my willingness to “dirty” my academic research life with constant forays into the real world of criminal justice. I did not, however, start off my interest in social psychology with the legal system in mind. Bear with me. My story is a little different than most of the narratives in this book because a significant part of my story involves the application of my research findings to the real world of police investigations.

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Pillars of Social Psychology
Stories and Retrospectives
 , pp. 293 - 300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Allport, G. W., & Postman, L. J. (1945). The basic psychology of rumor. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 8, 61–81.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Loftus, E. F., & Palmer, J. C. (1974). Reconstruction of automobile destruction: An example of the interaction between language and memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 13, 585–589.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wells, G. L. (1978). Applied eyewitness testimony research: System variables and estimator variables. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 1546–1557.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wells, G. L., Kovera, M. B., Douglass, A. B., Brewer, N., Meissner, C. A., & Wixted, J. T. (2020). Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence. Law and Human Behavior, 44, 3–36.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Wells, G. L., & Loftus, E. F. (Eds.) (1984). Eyewitness Testimony: Psychological Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Wells, G. L., & Luus, E. (1990). Police lineups as experiments: Social methodology as a framework for properly‑conducted lineups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 16, 106–117.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wells, G. L., Small, M., Penrod, S. J., Malpass, R. S., Fulero, S. M., & Brimacombe, C. A. E. (1998). Eyewitness identification procedures: Recommendations for lineups and photospreads. Law and Human Behavior, 22, 603–647.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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