Melissa F Colloff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1861523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa F Colloff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa F |
| FAMILY NAME | Colloff |
| SIGNATURE | COLLOFF M F |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Psychology University of Birmingham UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6401-4872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Suspect-filler similarity
Lineup research is facilitated by cognitive models that make testable predictions. • Witnesses discount shared facial features in lineups to make an identification. • Police lineups should be fair and prevent suspects from standing out. • Police should avoid needlessly matching facial features in lineups. Worldwide, police test eyewitness memory using a lineup, containing an innocent or guilty suspect and several fillers. How similar-looking the …
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
Eyewitness memory in the news can affect the strategic regulation of memory reporting
The public is increasingly exposed to news about eyewitness memory errors. This study draws from the strategic memory regulation framework [Goldsmith, M., Koriat, A., & Weinberg-Eliezer, A. (2002). Strategic regulation of grain size memory reporting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(1), 73–95. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.131.1.73] to make predictions about how eyewitness memory reporting is affected by exposure to such repor…
Author Correction
Active exploration of faces in police lineups increases discrimination accuracy
Eyewitness identifications play a key role in the justice system, but eyewitnesses can make errors, often with profound consequences. We used findings from basic science and innovative technologies to develop and test whether a novel interactive lineup procedure, wherein witnesses can rotate and dynamically view the lineup faces from different angles, improves witness discrimination accuracy compared with a widely used procedure in laboratories a…
Performance of typical and superior face recognizers on a novel interactive face matching procedure
Unfamiliar simultaneous face matching is error prone. Reducing incorrect identification decisions will positively benefit forensic and security contexts. The absence of view-independent information in static images likely contributes to the difficulty of unfamiliar face matching. We tested whether a novel interactive viewing procedure that provides the user with 3D structural information as they rotate a facial image to different orientations wou…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
Performance of typical and superior face recognizers on a novel interactive face matching procedure
Unfamiliar simultaneous face matching is error prone. Reducing incorrect identification decisions will positively benefit forensic and security contexts. The absence of view-independent information in static images likely contributes to the difficulty of unfamiliar face matching. We tested whether a novel interactive viewing procedure that provides the user with 3D structural information as they rotate a facial image to different orientations wou…
Active exploration of faces in police lineups increases discrimination accuracy
Eyewitness identifications play a key role in the justice system, but eyewitnesses can make errors, often with profound consequences. We used findings from basic science and innovative technologies to develop and test whether a novel interactive lineup procedure, wherein witnesses can rotate and dynamically view the lineup faces from different angles, improves witness discrimination accuracy compared with a widely used procedure in laboratories a…
Performance of typical and superior face recognizers on a novel interactive face matching procedure
Unfamiliar simultaneous face matching is error prone. Reducing incorrect identification decisions will positively benefit forensic and security contexts. The absence of view-independent information in static images likely contributes to the difficulty of unfamiliar face matching. We tested whether a novel interactive viewing procedure that provides the user with 3D structural information as they rotate a facial image to different orientations wou…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic
To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply
Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. We addressed this question by replicating Oosterhof an…
Eyewitness memory in the news can affect the strategic regulation of memory reporting
The public is increasingly exposed to news about eyewitness memory errors. This study draws from the strategic memory regulation framework [Goldsmith, M., Koriat, A., & Weinberg-Eliezer, A. (2002). Strategic regulation of grain size memory reporting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131(1), 73–95. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.131.1.73] to make predictions about how eyewitness memory reporting is affected by exposure to such repor…
Author Correction
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
Suspect-filler similarity
Lineup research is facilitated by cognitive models that make testable predictions. • Witnesses discount shared facial features in lineups to make an identification. • Police lineups should be fair and prevent suspects from standing out. • Police should avoid needlessly matching facial features in lineups. Worldwide, police test eyewitness memory using a lineup, containing an innocent or guilty suspect and several fillers. How similar-looking the …
Psychology (5 works) · Face Recognition and Perception (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (2 works) · Eyewitness memory (2 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (2 works)