Miko M. Wilford

Iowa State University — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

15h-index663citations56works0.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Deception detection and forensic psychology(22), Memory Processes and Influences(12), Jury Decision Making Processes(11), Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis(8), Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems(8)

Publications56 total

Who minds their pleas and queues? Quick and slow misdemeanor pleas pose similar risk of incarceration
Criminal Justice and Behavior·2026
Guilty pleas: History, research, and current directions.
American Psychological Association eBooks·2026
Demystifying the Plea Process: Investigating Attorney Communications and Client Misconceptions
Russian Journal of Economics and Law·2025Open Access
Understanding Attorneys’ Plea Advice: The Role of Defendant Guilt and Trial Penalties
Behavioral Sciences·2025Open Access
Correction: Terms and conditions apply: the effect of probation length and obligation disclosure on true and false guilty pleas
Journal of Experimental Criminology·2025Open Access
Plea Bargaining Later in the Pandemic:
Southern Illinois University Press eBooks·2025
Quick and dirty: An evaluation of plea colloquy validity in the virtual courtroom.
Law and Human Behavior·2025· 3 cited
Demystifying the Plea Process: Investigating Attorney Communications and Client Misconceptions
CrimRxiv·2025Open Access
The psychological allure of Alford: Does wanting to appear innocent put innocents at risk?
Law and Human Behavior·2025Open Access
Demystifying the Plea Process: Investigating Attorney Communications and Client Misconceptions
Criminology Criminal Justice Law & Society·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Urgent issues and prospects in guilty plea research and practice
Legal and Criminological Psychology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
“… give me a lawyer, dawg”: recognizing youthful pleas for advice and support
Frontiers in Psychology·2024Open Access
When Pleas Precede Evidence
The Wrongful Conviction Law Review·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Confession evidence results in more true and false guilty pleas than eyewitness evidence
Journal of Experimental Criminology·2023· 6 cited
Commonalities in false guilty plea cases
Psychology Crime and Law·2023· 12 cited
“Reject the Offer”: The Asymmetric Impact of Defense Attorneys’ Plea Recommendations
Criminal Justice and Behavior·2023· 7 cited
Identifying Patterns Across the Six Canonical Factors Underlying Wrongful Convictions
The Wrongful Conviction Law Review·2023· 16 citedOpen Access
Terms and conditions apply: the effect of probation length and obligation disclosure on true and false guilty pleas
Journal of Experimental Criminology·2022· 5 cited
The disappearing trial: how social scientists can help save the jury from extinction
Psychology Crime and Law·2021· 11 cited
Pandemic pushed defendants to plead guilty more often, including innocent people pleading to crimes they didn’t commit
2021
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Frequent Co-authors

Gary L. Wells(12), Allison D. Redlich(6), Jason C. K. Chan(6), Rachele J. DiFava(5), Kelly T. Sutherland(4), Annabelle Frazier(4), Kelsey S. Henderson(4), Nate Kornell(3), Laura Smalarz(3), Joseph E. Gonzales(3), Shi Yan(3), Annmarie Khairalla(3), Shana K. Carpenter(2), Kellie M. Mullaney(2), Sam J Tuhn(2), Jessica A. LaPaglia(2), Jillian R. Rivard(2), Ronald P. Fisher(2), Sara D. Davis(2), Patricia A. Ferreira(2)