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American Psychology-Law Society @ap-ls.org · 15/03/2026

We hope everyone enjoyed #apls2026! See you next year for #apls2027 in Louisville! @aplssc.bsky.social

Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A haiku for my labmate, Taylor Tracy, who presented her first-ever AP-LS poster this year: Opt-out instructions Might result in info loss But we found no change Instead, witnesses lowered their criterion for high-conf judgments. #apls2026

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Very delayed haikus from #apls2026 for my friend Katie Cunius (UNR), as is tradition: When a defendant Is in an extremist group schemas sway verdicts

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I had an amazing time at #apls2026 in Reno! I was excited to present my recent work examining how repeated-suspect presentations contaminate memory and put innocent suspects at risk. It was also lovely to spend time with some of my favorite people. ☺️ Can't wait for Louisville next year!

Rebecca Ying presenting "A Shocking Failure of Source Memory: Repeated-Suspect Presentations Contaminate Memory and Put Innocent Suspects at Risk."

Katie Cunius, Rebecca Ying, Nydia Ayala, Taylor Tracy at dinner.

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Excited to be at #apls2026 in Reno, NV! Hoping everyone will pop by and hear about some of the work I've been doing in the past year.

Poster for American Psychology-Law Society Conference Reno, NV 2026

A Shocking Failure of Source Memory: Repeated-Suspect Procedures Contaminate Memory and Put Innocent Suspects at Risk
Rebecca C. Ying, Andrew M. Smith, & John T. Wixted

Saturday, March 14, 4:10PM – 4:22PM
Tuscany 6

Showups Conducted Under Field-Conditions Yield Overconfident Choosers and Highly Accurate Rejectors
Mitchell L. Eisen & Rebecca C. Ying

Saturday, March 14, 4:22PM – 4:34PM
Tuscany 6

Should Eyewitnesses Viewing Lineups be Provided With an Explicit Option to Indicate That They are “Not Sure”?
Taylor E. Tracy, Andrew M. Smith, & Rebecca C. Ying

Saturday, March 14, 6:30PM
Poster Session, Tuscany 1/A

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Very excited to announce that I will be joining the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University as an Assistant Professor this upcoming Fall! ☺️

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Tim (Wei-Ting) Chao @timchao.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"AI-Faces by Illinois" include 1,152 AI-generated images of children by age (3-15), gender, eight racial background, and emotion (smile, angry, sad). Images (osf.io/vurm5/) and Preprint available(doi.org/10.31234/osf...) with @brendacstraka.bsky.social and @Dr. Michael Rizzo!

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Nydia Ayala @nydia-ayala.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Excited to present in the Artificial Intelligence and Human Memory symposium at 3:45 alongside some really great researchers. Hope y’all can drop by! #psynom2025 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

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Nydia Ayala @nydia-ayala.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It's been 20+ years since researchers recommended that police videorecord lineups. But no one has empirically tested the diagnostic value of these videos... until now. Here, we provide a compelling case to mandate the videorecording of lineup procedures.

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Nydia Ayala @nydia-ayala.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Finding #3: Witnesses' lineup behavior can diagnose high-confidence mistaken identifications. When witnesses are highly confident but their behavior indicates a weak and disfluent recognition experience, the CJS system should doubt their accuracy.

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Nydia Ayala @nydia-ayala.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Finding #2: Not only did witness behaviors discriminate between accurate and inaccurate decisions, but they also improved classification performance over and above confidence and decision speed.

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Nydia Ayala @nydia-ayala.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Finding #1: Accurate witnesses behaved markedly different than inaccurate witnesses—a strong and fluent recognition experience implied accuracy and a weak and disfluent recognition experience implied inaccuracy.

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Nydia Ayala @nydia-ayala.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Why should police video-record lineups? We videorecorded 1496 witnesses as they completed lineups. We coded the behaviors that these witnesses demonstrated and subjected the resulting data to machine learning analyses. Link and findings below!

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Nydia Ayala @nydia-ayala.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Why are lineup rejections less diagnostic of innocence than suspect identifications are of guilt? Take a look at our preprint for insight on this all-too-common finding of the eyewitness id literature.

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

‼️ Another new preprint ‼️ Here, we find that video recordings of lineup procedures can aid us with diagnosing witness accuracy (over and above confidence and decision time). This project provides even more evidence that the legal system should mandate video recording lineups.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...

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Introducing Papercheck

Introducing Papercheck Introducing Papercheck An Automated Tool to Check for Best Practices in Scientifi...

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Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) @officialsarmac.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

For anyone interested in conducting lineup identification research, check out this valuable database of research materials generously shared by #SARMAC2025 presenter Ryan Fitzgerald, Stefana Juncu, @evaribbers.bsky.social and @evarubinova.bsky.social osf.io/vrj3u @sarmac2025.bsky.social

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Eyewitness Lineup Identity (ELI) database

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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AP-LS Students @aplssc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Meet the AP-LS Campus Representatives! Today we have Rebecca Ying from Iowa State University's Cognitive Psychology Ph.D. program.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/03/2025

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

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Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.

Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...

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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

📚 Are you an early career researcher (undergrad to postdoc) in psych, neuro, or a related field? Are you seeking feedback on an unsubmitted manuscript or a response to reviews? Our “pre-review” program offers feedback from experienced reviewers! 👇 Learn more & apply: go.iu.edu/rzfair

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Trainee Interest for Formative and Interactive Review (FAIR)

To participate in FAIR, you must be an early career researcher (undergraduate to post-doc) in psychology, neuroscience, or a related field. We offer multiple ways to engage in FAIR, depending on your...

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Anthony Perillo, Ph.D. @anthonyperillo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

In Australia, Risk assessment is the big Forensic question. (Not like the US, Where competency is the Biggest referral) @tessneal.bsky.social #APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku

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Anthony Perillo, Ph.D. @anthonyperillo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Forensic tools used In Australia pass the Quality test more (Compared to past look At the psych tests we’ve used in US court evals) @tessneal.bsky.social #APLS2025 #PsychLaw #AcademicHaiku

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

✨Back to doing APLS haikus ✨ Ideologies mediate guilt perceptions of extremist groups. - Cunius, “Justification of Decisions Toward an Extremist Group Member” #APLS2025 #Psychlaw #AcademicHaiku

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Tess Neal @tessneal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Maya Irvin-Vitela will be presenting this work in the Saturday 3/15 datablitz (5pm-6pm) in San Cristobol. This work is from Ciera Arnett's dissertation (Maya helped as a coder!). Interesting work & findings about psychosis, substance use, & insanity. #APLS2025 #Law #Psychology #PsychLaw #CLJLab

"The Legal Intersection of Psychosis and Substance Use: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Settled Insanity" by Maya Irvin-Vitela, Ciera Arnett, & Tess Neal of the Clinical & Legal Judgment Lab.

"The current study" slide that details the primary aims of the two studies comprising this work (case-law analysis of settled insanity cases in the U.S., and an experiment with 310 forensic mental health experts as participants). This work was preregistered and materials, data, and code are available on the OSF.

Case Law Review results showing that coders with clinical science training found about 30% of the cases reviewed as having some viability for settled insanity defense from a clinical science viewpoint, contrasted with the actual legal outcome of these cases in which just one case (2% of the sample) actually had a successful settled insanity claim.

Results from experiment with forensic mental health experts, showing that mental health experts generally saw settled insanity as redundant to traditional insanity. Findings across the two studies showed legal and mental health professionals agree that acute, voluntary substance intoxication at the time of a crime generally precludes the use of an insanity defense...but cases where substance use is more distal are more complicated.

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Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology (ALLP) @amslablegpsy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

How could AI be used to assess eyewitness identification accuracy? Andrew Smith, @nydia-ayala.bsky.social and @rying.bsky.social discuss three ways AI could prove useful! @officialsarmac.bsky.social #PsychLaw psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🚨 New publication alert! In this paper, we find that the biased-lineup preference effect (or the finding that lay ppl rate IDs from biased lineups as more reliable than those from unbiased lineups) is driven by perceptual fluency. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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(PDF) Perceptions of Task Fluency Mislead Judgments of Eyewitness Identification Accuracy

PDF | Eyewitness identifications from lineups in which the suspect stands out (biased lineups) are less reliable than identifications from lineups in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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(PDF) Perceptions of Task Fluency Mislead Judgments of Eyewitness Identification Accuracy

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

So unbelievably excited for the @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social conference later this week! Would love to chat with anyone who comes by my poster Saturday night! Below are all the presentations from my lab this year! We're presenting some really fun stuff- excited to share it with everyone! 😀

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Side note: the witness justification that the classifier rated as "very high likelihood of a correct rejection" for the sequential lineup (pg. 37) still cracks me up

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Wanted to share some really cool work! @nydia-ayala.bsky.social, Andrew Smith, & Gary Wells utilized machine learning to evaluate the utility of confidence, decision time, and the language of lineup justifications in the context of sequential & simultaneous lineups! See preprint below ⬇️

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

If you're interested in getting a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, consider applying to Dr. Andrew Smith's Psych & Law Lab at Iowa State University! We study judgment & decision making in applied contexts (particularly eyewitness identification). See below for links ⬇️

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Tess Neal @tessneal.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

I made a Starter Pack for people working at the intersection of psychology and law. Let me know if you want to be included! #PsychLaw #Psychology #Law #SocialPsych #CogPsych #ForensicPsych #ClinicalPsych #LegalPsych #AcademicSky #StarterPack #AcademicChatter #CLJLab go.bsky.app/KS4zG4s

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Rebecca Ying @rying.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Back when I was an undergrad interested in eyewitness decision making, I looked up to so many amazing people and was terrified approaching them at APLS….. but now I’m beyond thankful to have the chance to work with many of those same people and see their brains work in real time!!

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