Margaret Bull Kovera

The Graduate Center, CUNY — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Jury Decision Making Processes(61), Deception detection and forensic psychology(56), Memory Processes and Influences(26), Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending(12), Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems(12)

Publications190 total

Interrogation tactics may have downstream consequences on innocent and guilty defendants’ plea decisions.
Law and Human Behavior·2025Open Access
The translation of psychological science for the public good: Commentary on Marcus et al. (2025).
American Psychologist·2025
In-court identifications affect juror decisions despite being unreliable.
Law and Human Behavior·2025
Social influence in legal processes and decision-making
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks·2025
The contribution of facial recognition technology to wrongful arrests and trauma.
Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy·2024· 6 cited
Suspect race affects defense attorney evaluations of preidentification evidence.
Law and Human Behavior·2024Open Access
Phenotypic mismatch between suspects and fillers but not phenotypic bias increases eyewitness identifications of Black suspects
Frontiers in Psychology·2024Open Access
Police Decisions Involved in Collecting Eyewitness Identification Evidence
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2024
An offer you cannot refuse: Plea offer size affects innocent but not guilty defendants' perceptions of voluntariness.
Law and Human Behavior·2023Open Access
The role of suspect development practices in eyewitness identification accuracy and racial disparities in wrongful conviction
Social Issues and Policy Review·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Eyewitness Identification
2023· 2 cited
Prosecutorial Misconduct
Oxford University Press eBooks·2023
Potential causes of racial disparities in wrongful convictions based on mistaken identifications: Own-race bias and differences in evidence-based suspicion.
Law and Human Behavior·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Diversifying the bench: A commentary on Berryessa, Dror, and <scp>McCormack</scp> (2022)
Legal and Criminological Psychology·2022
From whose perspective? Differences between actors and observers in determining the voluntariness of guilty pleas.
Law and Human Behavior·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
Voluntariness Questionnaire
PsycTESTS Dataset·2022
Evidence strength (insufficiently) affects police officers’ decisions to place a suspect in a lineup.
Law and Human Behavior·2021· 4 cited
Diversity’s Impact on the Quality of Deliberations
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin·2021· 8 cited
Diversity will benefit eyewitness science.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2021· 2 cited
Eyewitness identification in its social context.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2021· 31 cited
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Bradley D. McAuliff(13), Brian L. Cutler(6), Eugene Borgida(6), Lora M. Levett(4), Steven Penrod(4), Andrew J. Evelo(4), April W. Gresham(3), Ellen Gray(3), Stacie A. Cass(3), Mark Phillips(2), Sarah Greathouse(2), Kellye S. Hebert(2), Marti Hope Gonzales(2), John L. Sullivan(2), Virginia Chanley(2), Jacqueline Austin Chorn(2), Caroline Crocker(2), Janet K. Swim(2), Jacqueline L. Austin(2), Gary L. Wells(1)