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Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP) @amslablegpsy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Looking for paid research experience? Help Gabi de Bruïne with her research on culture and emotional memories! Send your CV and short motivation to g.de.bruine@vu.nl before December 24th!

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Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP) @amslablegpsy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🚨 Just published! Our case study on the ICTR reveals how cultural background shapes courtroom communication. Witnesses from non-WEIRD contexts often gave indirect responses, easily misinterpreted as unclear or evasive by legal professionals @anneliesvrede.bsky.social doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

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Cross-cultural communication in the courtroom: a case study of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Emerald Insight

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Annelies Vredeveldt @anneliesvrede.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Oh no, #SARMAC2025 is really over now! Survived my first conference as President and had a fantastic time with old friends and new. See you at #SARMAC2027! @fionagabbert.bsky.social @lorrainehope.bsky.social @charlesbstone.bsky.social @gabidb.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social

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Annelies Vredeveldt @anneliesvrede.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Cultural differences in eyewitness testimony have significant implications for investigative interviewers @gabidb.bsky.social #SARMAC2025

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Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP) @amslablegpsy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

About to start our #SARMAC2025 symposium on eyewitness memory in cross-cultural contexts in the Fountain Suite with @anneliesvrede.bsky.social @gabidb.bsky.social Nkansah Aankwam @lorrainehope.bsky.social and Qi Wang @officialsarmac.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social

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Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

(7/8) Future research should explore how to better elicit forensically relevant details from individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds, especially in investigative interviews.

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Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

(6/8) This matters because detailedness is often used as a proxy for credibility in legal and institutional settings—potentially disadvantaging high-context communicators.

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Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

(5/8) These findings reflect differences in communication styles: 🗣️ Western Europeans → low-context (explicit, detail-focused) 🌍 Sub-Saharan Africans → high-context (implicit, meaning-focused)

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Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

(4/8) Sub-Saharan African participants included more contextual information, such as moral evaluations and inferences (e.g., interpreting the event as a scam).

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Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

(3/8) Despite differences in quantity, there were no significant differences in accuracy between the two groups.

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Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

(2/8) Western European participants reported significantly more correct, incorrect, and total details than sub-Saharan African participants.

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Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

(1/8) 🔍 New research on cultural differences in eyewitness memory By De Bruïne, Vredeveldt & Van Koppen (2025) We compared how sub-Saharan African and Western European participants recalled the same mock crime video. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0965...

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The way we remember and report: an experiment testing cultural differences in eyewitness memory

More and more people report their memories in cross-cultural contexts, including eyewitness interviews. In a pre-registered experiment (N = 64), we examined cultural differences in mock eyewitness ...

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Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Saturday afternoon: Proofs arrive. Tuesday: Deadline. Monday 6:30 AM reminder? Bold of you to assume I wasn't already panicking.

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Gabi de Bruïne @gabidb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I couldn't be luckier with these two icons as my PhD supervisors👇

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Amy de Bruïne @amydeb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The end of the PhD is near! 🎉 My latest paper on surprise, plausibility, and memory is online! We remember highly surprising and unsurprising info better than moderately surprising info. But only if the info is judged as plausible. Read the full paper here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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The Interactive Effects of Surprise and Plausibility on Memory | Request PDF

Request PDF | The Interactive Effects of Surprise and Plausibility on Memory | It has been demonstrated that surprising information often leads to better recall. Yet, this might not apply to informati...

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