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Christian A. Meissner    

Dr. Chris Meissner
   
Personal Information    

Ph.D., Florida State Univ. (2001)

Professor &
Associate Vice President 
   
Research Interests    

My research examines the social and cognitive psychological processes associated with 

achieving cooperation and eliciting person and event memories in forensic interview contexts.  

To this extent, I have conducted studies assessing facets of memory for faces and events, 

evaluating the efficacy of popular interview and interrogation methods, and developing psychological 

process models that account for social influence, memory, and decision making factors in this context. 

   
Sample Publications    


Albrechtsen, J. S., Meissner, C. A., & Susa, K. J. (2009). Can intuition improve deception detection 

         performance? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 1052-1055.


Horgan, A. J., Russano, M. B., Meissner, C. A., & Evans, J. R. (2012). Minimization and maximization 

         techniques: Assessing the perceived consequences of confessing and confession diagnosticity. 

         Psychology, Crime, & Law, 18, 65-78. 


Lassiter, G. D., & Meissner, C. A. (2010). Police Interrogations and False Confessions: Current

         Research, Practice, and Policy Recommendations. Washington, DC: American Psychological

         Association. 

 

Meissner, C. A., Redlich, A. D., Bhatt, S., & Brandon, S. (2012). Interview and interrogation methods 

          and their effects on true and false confessions. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 8, 1-49. 


Memon, A., Meissner, C. A., & Fraser, J. (2010). The cognitive interview: A meta-analytic review and 

         study space analysis of the past 25 years. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 16, 340-372. 


Narchet, F. M., Meissner, C. A., & Russano, M. B. (2011). Modeling the influence of investigator bias 

         on the elicitation of true and false confessions. Law & Human Behavior, 35, 452-465.

Susa, K. J., Meissner, C. A., & de Heer, H. (2010). Modeling the role of social-cognitive processes in 

         the recognition of own- and other-race faces. Social Cognition, 28, 519-533. 

 

 

   
Contact Information    

Email: cmeissner@utep.edu

Phone: 915-747-6056
Fax: 915-747-6553

Department of Psychology
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso TX, 79968
   
Courses    

PSYC 1301: Intro. to Psychology

PSYC 5342: Invest. Interviewing

PSYC 5374: Cognitive Psych.

CRIJ 4300: Actual Innocence

CRIJ 4300: Invest. Interviewing


   
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