Gary L. Wells

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Memory Processes and Influences(152), Deception detection and forensic psychology(115), Radiology practices and education(78), Face Recognition and Perception(31), Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics(26)

Publications313 total

An evidence-based imperative to videorecord eyewitness lineups.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2026Open Access
Biased lineups and additional repetitions exacerbate the repeated-suspect effect.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied·2025
Beyond the confidence-accuracy relation: A multiple-reflector-variable approach to postdicting accuracy on eyewitness lineups.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Reply to Rosenblum et al. and Carriquiry and Ommen: Understanding probative value, triers-of-fact, and usefulness of validity study results
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2024Open Access
Recommendations for the Collection and Preservation of Eyewitness Identification Evidence
Applied police briefings :·2024Open Access
Recommendations for the Collection and Preservation of Eyewitness Identification Evidence
Applied police briefings :·2024Open Access
Cartridge-case examiners’ aversion to true rejections: A shocking problem with use of the “inconclusive” category.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2024
Telling us less than what they know: Expert inconclusive reports conceal exculpatory evidence in forensic cartridge-case comparisons.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2023· 9 cited
Lay (mis)perceptions of suspect-identification accuracy from biased and unbiased lineups.
Psychology Public Policy and Law·2023· 3 cited
In their own words: Verbalizations of real eyewitnesses during identification lineups.
Psychology Public Policy and Law·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Validity of forensic cartridge-case comparisons
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 20 citedOpen Access
Using Reflector Variables to Determine Whether the Culprit Is Present in or Absent from a Police Lineup
Oxford University Press eBooks·2023· 2 cited
Eyewitness confidence and decision time reflect identification accuracy in actual police lineups.
Law and Human Behavior·2023· 20 citedOpen Access
Lives destroyed by distorted recollections of fluency, attention, view, and confidence: A sin of bias in eyewitness identification.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2022· 1 cited
A Multi-Decade Journey between the Lab and the Real World
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2022· 1 cited
Fair lineups improve outside observers’ discriminability, not eyewitnesses’ discriminability: Evidence for differential filler-siphoning using empirical data and the WITNESS computer-simulation architecture.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2022· 9 cited
Improving face identification of mask-wearing individuals
Cognitive Research Principles and Implications·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
Test a Witness’s Memory of a Suspect Only Once
Gothic.net·2021· 33 cited
Eyewitnesses’ free-report verbal confidence statements are diagnostic of accuracy.
Law and Human Behavior·2021· 27 cited
Methodological Considerations in Eyewitness Identification Experiments
2021· 13 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

R. C. L. Lindsay(8), Amy L. Bradfield(4), Neil Brewer(4), Elizabeth A. Olson(4), John W. Turtle(4), Roy S. Malpass(3), Solomon M. Fulero(3), C. A. Elizabeth Lüüs(3), Michael R. Leippe(3), Steven Penrod(2), Paul D. Windschitl(2), Richard E. Petty(2), John T. Wixted(2), Tamara J. Ferguson(2), Igor Gavanski(2), Amy Bradfield Douglass(2), Nancy K. Steblay(2), Ronald P. Fisher(2), Thomas M. Ostrom(2), Mark Small(1)