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Kathy Pezdek
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[Go Back] VitaKATHY PEZDEK, Ph.D. Professor Email: Kathy.Pezdek@cgu.edu (909) 621-8084
Education
Professional Associations
Editorial ExperienceNorth American Editor of Applied Cognitive Psychology (1995- 2000)
Recent PublicationsAlso see Dr. Pezdek's complete Vita. Selected Journal Articles Pezdek, K., & Freyd, J. J. (in press). The Fallacy of Generalizing from Egg Salad in False Belief Research. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. Pezdek, K. Avila-Mora, E., & Sperry, K. (in press). Does Trial Presentation Medium Matter in Jury Simulation Research?: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Eyewitness Expert Testimony. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Pezdek, K. (2009). Grading student papers: Reducing faculty workload while improving feedback to students. APS Observer 23 (9). Pezdek, K., Lam, S. T., & Sperry, K. (2009). Forced Confabulation More Strongly Influences Event Memory if Suggestions are Other-Generated than Self-Generated. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 14, 241-252. Kleider, H.M., Pezdek, K., Goldinger, S.D., & Kirk, A. (2008). Schema-Driven Source Misattribution Errors: Remembering the Expected from a Witnessed Event. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 1-20. Blandón-Gitlin, I., Pezdek, K., Lindsay, S.D., & Hagan, L. (2008). Criteria-Based Content Analysis of true and suggested accounts of events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 901-917. Pezdek, K. & Blandon-Gitlin, I., (2008). Planting False Memories for Childhood Sexual Abuse Only Happens to Emotionally Disturbed People… not Me or My Friends. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 162-169. Goodman, G.S., Sayfan, L., Lee, J.S., Sandhei, M., Walle-Olsen, A., Magnussen, S., Pezdek, K., & Arrdeondo, P. (2007). The development of memory for own- and other-race faces. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 98, 233-242. Pezdek, K., Sperry, K., & Owens, S.M., (2007). Interviewing Witnesses: The Effect of Forced Confabulation on Event Memory. Law and Human Behavior 31:463–478. Pezdek, K. (2007). It's Just Not Good Science. Consciousness & Cognition, 16, 29-30. Pezdek, K. & Lam, S. (2007). What research paradigms have cognitive psychologists used to study "false memory," and what are the implications of these choices? Consciousness & Cognition, 16, 2-17. Pezdek, K., Blandon-Gitlin, I., Lam, S., Hart, R.E. & Schooler, J. (2006). Is knowing believing?: The role of event plausibility and background knowledge in planting false beliefs about the personal past. Memory & Cognition. Vol 34, 1628-1635. Pezdek, K., Blandon-Gitlin, I. & Gabbay, P. (2006). Imagination and Memory: Does Imagining Implausible Events Lead to False Autobiographical Memories? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 13 (5), 764-769. Pezdek, K. & Blandon-Gitlin, I. (2005). When is an intervening lineup most likely to affect eyewitness identification accuracy? Legal and Criminological Psychology Vol 10, 247-263. Blandon-Gitlin, I., Pezdek, K, Rogers, M. & Brodie, L. (2005). Detecting deception in children: An experimental study of the effect of event familiarity on CBCA ratings, Law & Human Behavior, 29, 187-197. Freyd, J.J., Putnam, F.W., Lyon, T.D., Becher-Blease, K.A., Cheit, R.E., Siegel, N.B. & Pezdek, K. (2005). The science of child sexual abuse. Science. Pezdek, K., et al. (2004). Detecting deception in children: Event familiarity affects Criterion Based Content Analysis ratings. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89, 119-126. Pezdek, K. (2003). Event memory and autobiographical memory for the events of September 11, 2001. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 1033-1045. Pezdek. K., Blandon-Gitlin, I., & Moore, C. (2003). Children’s face recognition memory: More evidence for the cross-race effect. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 760-763. Pezdek, K., Berry, T., & Renno, P.A. (2002). Children’s mathematical achievement: The role of parents’ perceptions and their involvement in homework. Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 771-777. Pezdek, K. (2002). Teaching psychology in the context of a university-community partnership. Teaching of Psychology, 29, 157-159. Pezdek, K., & Eddy, R. M. (2001). Imagination inflation: A statistical artifact of regression toward the mean. Memory and Cognition, 29, 707-718. Hinz, T & Pezdek, K. (2001). The effect of exposure to multiple lineups on face identification accuracy. Law and Human Behavior, 25, 185-198. Pezdek, K. (2001). A cognitive analysis of the recovered memory/false memory debate. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, 4 (2). [Reprinted in J. J. Freyd & A. P. DePrince (Eds.). Trauma and Cognitive Science. Haworth Press: San Diego, CA.] Finger, K. & Pezdek, K. (1999). The effect of the cognitive interview on face identification accuracy: Release from verbal overshadowing. Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, 340-348. Pezdek, K., & Hodge, D. (1999). Planting false childhood memories in children: The role of event plausibility. Child Development, 70, 887-895. Underwood, J., & Pezdek, K. (1998). Memory suggestibility as an example of the sleeper effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 449-453. Arrigo, J. M., & Pezdek, K. (1997). Lessons from the study of psychogenic amnesia. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 6, 148-152. Pezdek, K., Finger, K., & Hodge, D. (1997). Planting false childhood memories: The role of event plausibility. Psychological Science, 8, 437-441. Pezdek, K., & Roe, C. (1997). The suggestibility of children's memory for being touched: Planting, erasing, and changing memories. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 95-106. Pezdek, K., & Roe, C. (1995). The effect of memory trace strength on suggestibility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 60, 116-128. Pezdek, K., & Roe, C. (1994). Memory for childhood events: How suggestible is it? Consciousness and Cognition, 3, 374-387. Pezdek, K. (1994). Avoiding false claims of child sexual abuse: Empty promises. Family Relations, 43. Pezdek, K., & Prull, M. (1993). Fallacies in memory for conversations: Reflections on Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and the Like. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7, 299-310. Pezdek, K., & Greene, J. (1993). Testing eyewitness memory: Developing a measure that is more resistant to suggestibility. Law and Human Behavior, 17, 361-369. Holst, V. F., & Pezdek, K. (1992). Scripts for typical crimes and their effects on memory for eyewitness testimony. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6, 573-587. Reynolds, J. K., & Pezdek, K. (1992). Face recognition memory: The effects of exposure duration and encoding instructions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 6, 279-292. Pezdek, K. et al. (1989). Memory for real world scenes: The role of consistency with schema expectation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 15, 587-595. Pezdek, K. et al. (1988). Picture memory: Recognizing added and deleted details. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 14, 468-476. Books Costanzo, M., Krauss, D., & Pezdek, K. (Eds.) (2007). Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Donaldson, S., Berger, D. & Pezdek, K. (Eds.). (2006). Applied Psychology: New Frontiers and Rewarding Careers. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Pezdek, K., & Banks, W.P. (Eds.). (1996). The Recovered Memory/False Memory Debate. San Diego: Academic Press. Berger, D., Pezdek, K., & Banks, W. P. (Eds.) (1987). Applications of cognitive psychology: Problem solving, education and computing. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Chapters Davies, G. & Pezdek, K. (in press). Children as Witnesses. In G. Towl, & D. Crighton, (Eds.) Textbook on forensic psychology. Pezdek, K. (2009). Content, form and ethical issues concerning expert psychological testimony on eyewitness identification. In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), Expert testimony on the psychology of eyewitness identification (pp. 29-50). New York: Oxford University Press. Blandon-Gitlin, I., & Pezdek, K. (2009). Children’s memory in forensic contexts: Suggestibility, false memory, and individual differences. In B. L. Bottoms, Najdowski, C.J., & Goodman, G.S. (Eds.), Children as victims, witnesses, and offenders: Psychological science and the law (pp. 57-80). New York: Guildford Press. Pezdek, K. (2008). Forced Confabulation. In B. L. Cutler (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law (pp. 324-325), Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Pezdek, K. (2008). Post-Event Information. In B. L. Cutler (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law (pp. 607-609), Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Pezdek, K. & Freyd, J.J. (June, 2008). False Memory. In Edleson, J. & Renzetti, C. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Pezdek, K. (2007). Expert Testimony on Eyewitness Memory and Identification. In M. Costanzo, D. Krauss, & K. Pezdek (Eds.), Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Pezdek, K., Deffenbacher, K. A., Lam, S., & Hoffman, R. R. (2006). Cognitive Psychology: Applications and Careers. In S. Donaldson, D. Berger, & K. Pezdek (Eds.), Applied psychology: New frontiers and rewarding careers. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Pezdek, K. (2006). Memory for the Events of September 11, 2001. In Nilsson, L.-G. and Ohta, N. (Eds.), Memory & Society: Psychological Perspectives. New York: Routledge and Psychology Press. Pezdek, K., & Hinz, T. (2002). The construction of false events in memory. In H. Westcott, G. Davies & R. Bull (Eds.), Children’s testimony: A handbook of psychological research and forensic practice. London: Wiley. Grant-Related ActivityFletcher Jones Foundation (2007-2008). “Methodological Considerations in Evaluating the Effectiveness of Eyewitness Expert Testimony,” $7,975. Fletcher Jones Foundation (2006-2007). “Forced Confabulation: Does Post Event Guessing during Police Interrogation Suggestively Influence Eyewitness Memory?” $6,000. Fletcher Jones Foundation (2003 – 2004). “Improving Jurors’ Ability to Evaluate the Reliability of Eyewitness Evidence,” $7,225. National Science Foundation, Law & Social Sciences Program (2001 – 2004). “Discriminating Between Children’s Accounts of True and False Events,” $229,807. National Science Foundation, Law & Social Sciences Program (2000-2003). “The Suggestive Influence of Viewing an Intervening Lineup on Eyewitness Memory Accuracy,” $180,000. Fletcher Jones Foundation (2002),"Eyewitness Memory for the Events of September 11," $5,000. Haynes Foundation (2000). "Discriminating between Children’s Accounts of True and False Events," $10,000. National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program (2000-2003), "The Suggestive Influence of Viewing an Intervening Lineup on the Accuracy of Eyewitness Memory," $180,000. Haynes Foundation (2000), "Discriminating between Children’s Accounts of True and False Events," $10,000. Back to Top |
