Lorraine Hope
Biographic Data
| ID | 3657642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorraine Hope |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorraine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hope |
| SIGNATURE | HOPE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0012-8165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Communication errors in online interactions: Examining cultural differences in perceptions of rapport and preferred recovery strategies
Information gathering, including in covert contexts, increasingly takes place in online environments amongst individuals from different cultures. Given that rapport facilitates information gathering, we investigated the perceived impact of communication errors on rapport in brief online interactions. In a pre-registered experiment (N = 191), we examined detection of errors, their effect on perceived rapport, recovery strategy preferences, and cul…
A Click of Faith: How Perceived Trustworthiness Affects Online Risk-Taking in Unfamiliar Dyads
Perceptions of trustworthiness foster feelings of swift trust and, in turn, yield positive outcomes in virtual teams. However, limited research has investigated the effects of trustworthiness on trust formation and online risk-taking in unfamiliar dyads. We manipulated the trustworthiness of a pseudo-player (untrustworthy vs trustworthy) in the first of two interactive online games and recorded the participant's risk-taking behaviour (number of h…
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic
Traditional contact tracing is one of the most powerful weapons people have in the battle against a pandemic, especially when vaccines do not yet exist or do not afford complete protection from infection. But the effectiveness of contact tracing hinges on its ability to find infected people quickly and obtain accurate information from them. Therefore, contact tracing inherits the challenges associated with the fallibilities of memory. Against thi…
Contact Tracing: A Memory Task With Consequences for Public Health
In the battle for control of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), we have few weapons. Yet contact tracing is among the most powerful. Contact tracing is the process by which public-health officials identify people, or contacts, who have been exposed to a person infected with a pathogen or another hazard. For all its power, though, contact tracing yields a variable level of success. One reason is that contact tracing’s ability to break the chain of…
The effects of acute stress on eyewitness memory: An integrative review for eyewitness researchers
The eyewitness and fundamental memory research fields have investigated the effects of acute stress at encoding on memory performance for decades yet results often demonstrate contrasting conclusions. In this review, we first summarise findings on the effects of acute encoding stress on memory performance and discuss how these research fields often come to these diverging findings regarding the effects of encoding stress on memory performance. Ne…
Facilitating recall and particularisation of repeated events in adults using a multi-method interviewing format
Reports about repeated experiences tend to include more schematic information than information about specific instances. However, investigators in both forensic and intelligence settings typically seek specific over general information. We tested a multi-method interviewing format (MMIF) to facilitate recall and particularisation of repeated events through the use of the self-generated cues mnemonic, the timeline technique, and follow-up question…
Mitigating the negative effects of retrieval stress on memory: An arousal reappraisal intervention
177) were semi-randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a Stress-intervention condition, a Stress-placebo condition, and a No-stress-placebo control condition. Participants viewed four images of complex, mildly negatively valenced scenes. One day later, they received an arousal reappraisal intervention or placebo before exposure to a laboratory stressor (or a control version for the No-stress condition). Participants were then tested on thei…
Facing stress: No effect of acute stress at encoding or retrieval on face recognition memory
Eyewitnesses may experience stress during a crime and when attempting to identify the perpetrator subsequently. Laboratory studies can provide insight into how acute stress at encoding and retrieval affects memory performance. However, previous findings exploring this issue have been mixed. Across two preregistered experiments, we examined the effects of stress during encoding and retrieval on face and word recognition performance. We used the Ma…
Supporting older eyewitnesses’ episodic memory: The self-administered interview and sketch reinstatement of context
Environmental support at retrieval improves episodic performance, yet there exists very few empirically evaluated techniques for supporting older witnesses/victims’ remembering (>65 years). We investigated two techniques for use in a criminal justice context – the Self-Administered Interview and Sketch Reinstatement of Context. Older adults (N = 134) witnessed an unexpected live event, following which half immediately completed a Self-Administere…
Amplifying recall after delays via initial interviewing: Inoculating truth-tellers' memory as a function of encoding quality
Beliefs about suspect alibis: A survey of lay people in the United Kingdom, Israel, and Sweden
During police interviews, innocent suspects may provide unconvincing alibis due to impaired memory processes or guilt-presumptive behaviour on behalf of the interviewer. Consequently, innocent suspects may be prosecuted and tried in court, where lay people who serve jury duty will assess their alibi’s credibility. To examine lay people’s beliefs and knowledge regarding suspect alibis, and specifically about such factors that may hamper innocent s…
On the persuadability of memory: Is changing people's memories no more than changing their minds
The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures leads, quite logically, to the appealing notion that people can be 'persuaded' to change their memories. Indeed, numerous studies show that memory can be influenced and distorted by a variety of persuasive tactics, and the theoretical accounts commonly used by researchers to explain episodic and autobiographical memory distortion phenomena can generally predict …
Establishing evidence through undercover and collective intelligence interviewing
We examined the potential of undercover interviewing and collective interviewing in eliciting cues to deceit in intelligence interviews. Twenty-four pairs of truth tellers and 23 pairs of liars undertook a mission in which they were interviewed covertly in a park by an undercover interviewer, and then had a later formal, forensic-style interview with a second interviewer. Truth tellers and liars went to the park for different reasons and carried …
Twelve (not so) angry men: Managing conversational group size increases perceived contribution by decision makers
Individuals in large groups do not always contribute equally to group decision making. This may be due to constraints on conversational group size, as when a group is comprised of more than 4 people, it spontaneously fissions into smaller groups within which conversations take place. Thus, if conversations are attempted in larger groups, some individuals will not be part of the spontaneously forming discursive subgroup and, consequently, may not …
Can I take your picture? Undercover interviewing to detect deception
There are many contexts in which investigators want to interview suspects about their intentions without alerting the suspects that they are actually being interviewed. In the present experiment, we developed and tested an “undercover interviewing” technique. Liars were instructed to run a crime-related reconnaissance mission to a nearby island and were further instructed to generate an innocent cover-up story to hide their criminal intentions. O…
Exposure duration: Effects on eyewitness accuracy and confidence
The current study examined the relationship between the length of exposure to a face in an eyewitness setting and identification accuracy and confidence. A sample of 164 young (ages 17-25) and older (ages 59-81) adults viewed a simulated crime in which they saw the culprit's face for a short (12 s) or long (45 s) duration. They were then tested with a target absent (a line-up not containing the culprit) or target present line-up. Identification a…
Twelve (not so) angry men: Managing conversational group size increases perceived contribution by decision makers
Individuals in large groups do not always contribute equally to group decision making. This may be due to constraints on conversational group size, as when a group is comprised of more than 4 people, it spontaneously fissions into smaller groups within which conversations take place. Thus, if conversations are attempted in larger groups, some individuals will not be part of the spontaneously forming discursive subgroup and, consequently, may not …
Exposure duration: Effects on eyewitness accuracy and confidence
The current study examined the relationship between the length of exposure to a face in an eyewitness setting and identification accuracy and confidence. A sample of 164 young (ages 17-25) and older (ages 59-81) adults viewed a simulated crime in which they saw the culprit's face for a short (12 s) or long (45 s) duration. They were then tested with a target absent (a line-up not containing the culprit) or target present line-up. Identification a…
On the persuadability of memory: Is changing people's memories no more than changing their minds
The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures leads, quite logically, to the appealing notion that people can be 'persuaded' to change their memories. Indeed, numerous studies show that memory can be influenced and distorted by a variety of persuasive tactics, and the theoretical accounts commonly used by researchers to explain episodic and autobiographical memory distortion phenomena can generally predict …
Establishing evidence through undercover and collective intelligence interviewing
We examined the potential of undercover interviewing and collective interviewing in eliciting cues to deceit in intelligence interviews. Twenty-four pairs of truth tellers and 23 pairs of liars undertook a mission in which they were interviewed covertly in a park by an undercover interviewer, and then had a later formal, forensic-style interview with a second interviewer. Truth tellers and liars went to the park for different reasons and carried …
Exposure duration: Effects on eyewitness accuracy and confidence
The current study examined the relationship between the length of exposure to a face in an eyewitness setting and identification accuracy and confidence. A sample of 164 young (ages 17-25) and older (ages 59-81) adults viewed a simulated crime in which they saw the culprit's face for a short (12 s) or long (45 s) duration. They were then tested with a target absent (a line-up not containing the culprit) or target present line-up. Identification a…
Twelve (not so) angry men: Managing conversational group size increases perceived contribution by decision makers
Individuals in large groups do not always contribute equally to group decision making. This may be due to constraints on conversational group size, as when a group is comprised of more than 4 people, it spontaneously fissions into smaller groups within which conversations take place. Thus, if conversations are attempted in larger groups, some individuals will not be part of the spontaneously forming discursive subgroup and, consequently, may not …
Can I take your picture? Undercover interviewing to detect deception
There are many contexts in which investigators want to interview suspects about their intentions without alerting the suspects that they are actually being interviewed. In the present experiment, we developed and tested an “undercover interviewing” technique. Liars were instructed to run a crime-related reconnaissance mission to a nearby island and were further instructed to generate an innocent cover-up story to hide their criminal intentions. O…
Establishing evidence through undercover and collective intelligence interviewing
We examined the potential of undercover interviewing and collective interviewing in eliciting cues to deceit in intelligence interviews. Twenty-four pairs of truth tellers and 23 pairs of liars undertook a mission in which they were interviewed covertly in a park by an undercover interviewer, and then had a later formal, forensic-style interview with a second interviewer. Truth tellers and liars went to the park for different reasons and carried …
On the persuadability of memory: Is changing people's memories no more than changing their minds
The observation of parallels between the memory distortion and persuasion literatures leads, quite logically, to the appealing notion that people can be 'persuaded' to change their memories. Indeed, numerous studies show that memory can be influenced and distorted by a variety of persuasive tactics, and the theoretical accounts commonly used by researchers to explain episodic and autobiographical memory distortion phenomena can generally predict …
Beliefs about suspect alibis: A survey of lay people in the United Kingdom, Israel, and Sweden
During police interviews, innocent suspects may provide unconvincing alibis due to impaired memory processes or guilt-presumptive behaviour on behalf of the interviewer. Consequently, innocent suspects may be prosecuted and tried in court, where lay people who serve jury duty will assess their alibi’s credibility. To examine lay people’s beliefs and knowledge regarding suspect alibis, and specifically about such factors that may hamper innocent s…
Supporting older eyewitnesses’ episodic memory: The self-administered interview and sketch reinstatement of context
Environmental support at retrieval improves episodic performance, yet there exists very few empirically evaluated techniques for supporting older witnesses/victims’ remembering (>65 years). We investigated two techniques for use in a criminal justice context – the Self-Administered Interview and Sketch Reinstatement of Context. Older adults (N = 134) witnessed an unexpected live event, following which half immediately completed a Self-Administere…
Amplifying recall after delays via initial interviewing: Inoculating truth-tellers' memory as a function of encoding quality
Contact Tracing: A Memory Task With Consequences for Public Health
In the battle for control of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), we have few weapons. Yet contact tracing is among the most powerful. Contact tracing is the process by which public-health officials identify people, or contacts, who have been exposed to a person infected with a pathogen or another hazard. For all its power, though, contact tracing yields a variable level of success. One reason is that contact tracing’s ability to break the chain of…
The effects of acute stress on eyewitness memory: An integrative review for eyewitness researchers
The eyewitness and fundamental memory research fields have investigated the effects of acute stress at encoding on memory performance for decades yet results often demonstrate contrasting conclusions. In this review, we first summarise findings on the effects of acute encoding stress on memory performance and discuss how these research fields often come to these diverging findings regarding the effects of encoding stress on memory performance. Ne…
Facilitating recall and particularisation of repeated events in adults using a multi-method interviewing format
Reports about repeated experiences tend to include more schematic information than information about specific instances. However, investigators in both forensic and intelligence settings typically seek specific over general information. We tested a multi-method interviewing format (MMIF) to facilitate recall and particularisation of repeated events through the use of the self-generated cues mnemonic, the timeline technique, and follow-up question…
Mitigating the negative effects of retrieval stress on memory: An arousal reappraisal intervention
177) were semi-randomly assigned to one of three conditions: a Stress-intervention condition, a Stress-placebo condition, and a No-stress-placebo control condition. Participants viewed four images of complex, mildly negatively valenced scenes. One day later, they received an arousal reappraisal intervention or placebo before exposure to a laboratory stressor (or a control version for the No-stress condition). Participants were then tested on thei…
Facing stress: No effect of acute stress at encoding or retrieval on face recognition memory
Eyewitnesses may experience stress during a crime and when attempting to identify the perpetrator subsequently. Laboratory studies can provide insight into how acute stress at encoding and retrieval affects memory performance. However, previous findings exploring this issue have been mixed. Across two preregistered experiments, we examined the effects of stress during encoding and retrieval on face and word recognition performance. We used the Ma…
Hits and Misses: Digital Contact Tracing in a Pandemic
Traditional contact tracing is one of the most powerful weapons people have in the battle against a pandemic, especially when vaccines do not yet exist or do not afford complete protection from infection. But the effectiveness of contact tracing hinges on its ability to find infected people quickly and obtain accurate information from them. Therefore, contact tracing inherits the challenges associated with the fallibilities of memory. Against thi…
A Click of Faith: How Perceived Trustworthiness Affects Online Risk-Taking in Unfamiliar Dyads
Perceptions of trustworthiness foster feelings of swift trust and, in turn, yield positive outcomes in virtual teams. However, limited research has investigated the effects of trustworthiness on trust formation and online risk-taking in unfamiliar dyads. We manipulated the trustworthiness of a pseudo-player (untrustworthy vs trustworthy) in the first of two interactive online games and recorded the participant's risk-taking behaviour (number of h…
Communication errors in online interactions: Examining cultural differences in perceptions of rapport and preferred recovery strategies
Information gathering, including in covert contexts, increasingly takes place in online environments amongst individuals from different cultures. Given that rapport facilitates information gathering, we investigated the perceived impact of communication errors on rapport in brief online interactions. In a pre-registered experiment (N = 191), we examined detection of errors, their effect on perceived rapport, recovery strategy preferences, and cul…
Psychology (14 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Recall (7 works) · Interview (6 works) · Cognition (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (5 works) · Neuroscience (5 works)