Laura Smalarz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Smalarz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Smalarz |
| SIGNATURE | SMALARZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2435-7843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why showing evaluators videorecorded lineup procedures is an ineffective remedy for administrator suggestion
Wrongful conviction disadvantages exonerees in subsequent criminal trials
The Miranda penalty: Inferring guilt from suspects’ silence
OBJECTIVE: penalty exists. HYPOTHESES: rights. METHOD: rights, sat in silence, or spoke to police. Participants evaluated each suspect along various characteristics (e.g., honest, suspicious), assessed his likely guilt, and reported how many hours they would allocate to investigating the suspect versus other potential suspects. RESULTS: Suspects who invoked their right to silence or remained silent, compared with those who waived their rights and…
Witnessing-condition information differentially affects evaluations of high- and moderate-confidence eyewitness identifications
The stigma of wrongful conviction differs for White and Black exonerees
OBJECTIVE: Black people are disproportionately targeted and disadvantaged in the criminal legal system. We tested whether Black exonerees are similarly disadvantaged by the stigma of wrongful conviction. HYPOTHESES: In Experiment 1, we predicted that the stigma of wrongful conviction would be greater for Black than White exonerees. After finding the opposite pattern, we conducted two experiments to investigate the psychological underpinnings of t…
The role of social desirability and establishing nonracist credentials on mock juror decisions about Black defendants
OBJECTIVE: Recently, experimental work on racial bias in legal settings has diverged from real-world field data demonstrating racial disparities, instead often producing null or potential overcorrection effects favoring Black individuals over White individuals. We explored the role of social desirability in these counterintuitive effects and tested whether allowing participants to establish nonracist moral credentials increased their willingness …
Counterintuitive race effects in legal and nonlegal contexts
OBJECTIVE: Despite documented racial disparities in all facets of the criminal justice system, recent laboratory attempts to investigate racial bias in legal settings have produced null effects or racial-bias reversals. These counterintuitive findings may be an artifact of laboratory participants' attempts to appear unprejudiced in response to social norms that proscribe expressions of racial bias against Black individuals. Furthermore, given per…
Eyewitnesses’ free-report verbal confidence statements are diagnostic of accuracy
OBJECTIVES: We assessed recent policy recommendations to collect eyewitnesses' confidence statements in witnesses' own words as opposed to numerically. We conducted an experiment to test whether eyewitnesses' free-report verbal confidence statements are as diagnostic of eyewitness accuracy as their numeric confidence statements and whether the diagnostic utility of eyewitnesses' verbal and numeric confidence statements varies across witnessing co…
Presumed-blind lineup administrators can influence eyewitnesses’ identification decisions and confidence
Perpetual Foreigner in One’s Own Land: Potential Implications for Identity and Psychological Adjustment
The perpetual foreigner stereotype posits that members of ethnic minorities will always be seen as the “other” in the White Anglo-Saxon dominant society of the US (Devos & Banaji, 2005), which may have negative implications for them. The goal of the present research was to determine whether awareness of this perpetual foreigner stereotype predicts identity and psychological adjustment. We conducted a series of studies with 231 Asian Americans and…
Evaluating the claim that high confidence implies high accuracy in eyewitness identification
Eyewitness-identification decisions as Brady material: Disclosing information about prior decisions affects evaluations of eyewitnesses
Perpetual Foreigner in One's Own Land: Potential Implications for Identity and Psychological Adjustment
The perpetual foreigner stereotype posits that members of ethnic minorities will always be seen as the "other" in the White Anglo-Saxon dominant society of the United States (Devos & Banaji, 2005), which may have negative implications for them. The goal of the present research was to determine whether awareness of this perpetual foreigner stereotype predicts identity and psychological adjustment. We conducted a series of studies with 231 Asian Am…
Perpetual Foreigner in One's Own Land: Potential Implications for Identity and Psychological Adjustment
The perpetual foreigner stereotype posits that members of ethnic minorities will always be seen as the "other" in the White Anglo-Saxon dominant society of the United States (Devos & Banaji, 2005), which may have negative implications for them. The goal of the present research was to determine whether awareness of this perpetual foreigner stereotype predicts identity and psychological adjustment. We conducted a series of studies with 231 Asian Am…
Evaluating the claim that high confidence implies high accuracy in eyewitness identification
Perpetual Foreigner in One's Own Land: Potential Implications for Identity and Psychological Adjustment
The perpetual foreigner stereotype posits that members of ethnic minorities will always be seen as the "other" in the White Anglo-Saxon dominant society of the United States (Devos & Banaji, 2005), which may have negative implications for them. The goal of the present research was to determine whether awareness of this perpetual foreigner stereotype predicts identity and psychological adjustment. We conducted a series of studies with 231 Asian Am…
Eyewitness-identification decisions as Brady material: Disclosing information about prior decisions affects evaluations of eyewitnesses
Eyewitnesses’ free-report verbal confidence statements are diagnostic of accuracy
OBJECTIVES: We assessed recent policy recommendations to collect eyewitnesses' confidence statements in witnesses' own words as opposed to numerically. We conducted an experiment to test whether eyewitnesses' free-report verbal confidence statements are as diagnostic of eyewitness accuracy as their numeric confidence statements and whether the diagnostic utility of eyewitnesses' verbal and numeric confidence statements varies across witnessing co…
Presumed-blind lineup administrators can influence eyewitnesses’ identification decisions and confidence
Perpetual Foreigner in One’s Own Land: Potential Implications for Identity and Psychological Adjustment
The perpetual foreigner stereotype posits that members of ethnic minorities will always be seen as the “other” in the White Anglo-Saxon dominant society of the US (Devos & Banaji, 2005), which may have negative implications for them. The goal of the present research was to determine whether awareness of this perpetual foreigner stereotype predicts identity and psychological adjustment. We conducted a series of studies with 231 Asian Americans and…
Evaluating the claim that high confidence implies high accuracy in eyewitness identification
The stigma of wrongful conviction differs for White and Black exonerees
OBJECTIVE: Black people are disproportionately targeted and disadvantaged in the criminal legal system. We tested whether Black exonerees are similarly disadvantaged by the stigma of wrongful conviction. HYPOTHESES: In Experiment 1, we predicted that the stigma of wrongful conviction would be greater for Black than White exonerees. After finding the opposite pattern, we conducted two experiments to investigate the psychological underpinnings of t…
The role of social desirability and establishing nonracist credentials on mock juror decisions about Black defendants
OBJECTIVE: Recently, experimental work on racial bias in legal settings has diverged from real-world field data demonstrating racial disparities, instead often producing null or potential overcorrection effects favoring Black individuals over White individuals. We explored the role of social desirability in these counterintuitive effects and tested whether allowing participants to establish nonracist moral credentials increased their willingness …
Counterintuitive race effects in legal and nonlegal contexts
OBJECTIVE: Despite documented racial disparities in all facets of the criminal justice system, recent laboratory attempts to investigate racial bias in legal settings have produced null effects or racial-bias reversals. These counterintuitive findings may be an artifact of laboratory participants' attempts to appear unprejudiced in response to social norms that proscribe expressions of racial bias against Black individuals. Furthermore, given per…
The Miranda penalty: Inferring guilt from suspects’ silence
OBJECTIVE: penalty exists. HYPOTHESES: rights. METHOD: rights, sat in silence, or spoke to police. Participants evaluated each suspect along various characteristics (e.g., honest, suspicious), assessed his likely guilt, and reported how many hours they would allocate to investigating the suspect versus other potential suspects. RESULTS: Suspects who invoked their right to silence or remained silent, compared with those who waived their rights and…
Witnessing-condition information differentially affects evaluations of high- and moderate-confidence eyewitness identifications
Wrongful conviction disadvantages exonerees in subsequent criminal trials
Why showing evaluators videorecorded lineup procedures is an ineffective remedy for administrator suggestion
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Data mining (4 works) · Eyewitness identification (4 works) · Legal psychology (4 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (4 works)