School of Psychology
Dr Robyn Holliday, BSocSci (Hons), PhD, PGCHE, CSci, CPsychol (Forensic)
Address:
Room 0/20,
School of Psychology
Henry Wellcome Building
Faculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences
University of Leicester,
Lancaster Road
Leicester
LE1 9HN United Kingdom
E-mail: reh24@leicester.ac.uk
Phone: +44(0)116 229 7128
Senior Lecturer
Registered Chartered Forensic Psychologist
Expert Witness database British Psychological Society
Postgraduate Tutor - School of Psychology
Membership of Professional bodies
American Law and Psychology
American Psychological Society
American Psychological Association
British Psychological Society - Division of Forensic Psychology & Cognitive Section
Cognitive Development Society
European Law and Psychology
Experimental Psychology Society
Psychonomic Society
Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Society for Research in Child Development
PhD Current Students supervision :
Mrs Shaimaa Almutairi
Ms Marisol Elizade Mojardin
Research Interests:
- Recognition memory processes.
- Suggestibility / misinformation effects children, adolescents, and older witnesses.
- Forensic interview protocols for children and the elderly.
- True and false memory - developmental aspects.
- False memory - what are the underlying memory processes?
- Person and face recognition in children, adolescents, and the elderly.
- False memories and language factors in children.
- Decision-making in children and adolescents - framing, risky decisions, and disjunctions.
Publications
Journal articles and Book Chapter
Holliday, RE., & Marche, T. (Eds.) (2012). Child forensic psychology. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., Holliday, R.E., & Nakamura, K. (in press). Superposition in episodic memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition. Brainerd-Reyna_holliday_et-al-jeplmc-in press
Holliday, R.E., Humphries, J.E., Brainerd, C.J. & Reyna, V.F. (in press). Interviewing witnesses and victims. In G. Davies, C. Hollin & R. Bull (Eds). Forensic Psychology, 2nd edition. Wiley. Holliday-Humphries_Braiinerd_Reyna-Davies-book-chapter-2011-2nd ed
Holliday, R.E., Humphries, J.E., Milne, R., Memon, A., Houlder, L., Lyons, A., & Bull, R. (2011). Reducing misinformation effects in older adults with Cognitive Interview mnemonics. Psychology & Aging. Holliday et al Psychology & Aging in press
Humphries, JE., Holliday, RE., & Flowe, DH. (2011). Faces in Motion: Age-Related Changes in Eyewitness Identification Performance in Simultaneous, Sequential, and Elimination Video Lineups. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Faces-in-motion-PDF.
Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., Holliday, R.E. (2011). Development of recollection: A fuzzy-trace theory perspective. S. Ghetti & P. J. Bauer (Eds), In Origins and development of recollection. Oxford University Press.Brainerd-Reyna-Holliday_Ghetti book chapter
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2011). Developmental reversals in false memory: Now you see them, now you don't! Developmental Psychology, 47(2), 442-449. holliday brainerd reyna Developmental Psychology March 2011.pdf
Smith, L.L., Bull, R., & Holliday, R. (2011). Understanding juror perceptions of forensic evidence: Investigating the impact of case context on perceptions of forensic evidence strength. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 56(2), 409-414. Smith-Bull-Holliday-J Forensic Sciences 2011
Brainerd, C.J., Holliday, R.E., Reyna, V.F. & Yang, Y. (2010). Developmental reversals in false memory: Effects of Emotional Valence and Arousal. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 107, 137-154. brainerd_holliday_et al.pdf
Odegard, T.N., Cooper, C.M., Holliday, R.E., & Ceci, S.J. (2010). Interviewing child Victims: Advances in the scientific understanding of child eyewitness memory (pp. 105-127). In J,M. Lampinen & K. Sexton-Radek (Eds.). Protecting children from violence: Evidence-based interventions. New York: Psychology Press.
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., & Humphries, J.E. (2009). The Cognitive Interview. In R. Bull & T. Williamson (Eds). Handbook of the psychology of investigative interviewing: Current developments and future directions. Wiley. Holliday_et_al_2009.pdf
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J. & Reyna, V.F. (2009). Interviewing witnesses and victims. In G. Davies, C. Hollin & R. Bull (Eds). Forensic Psychology. Wiley.
Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., Ceci,, S.J. & Holliday, R.E. (2008). Understanding developmental reversals in false memory: Reply to Ghetti (2008) and Howe (2008). Psychological Bulletin, 134 (5), 773-777. bul-134-5-773.pdf
Holliday, R.E., Reyna, V.F., & Brainerd, C.J. (2008). Recall of details never experienced: The effects of age, repetition and semantic cues. Cognitive Development, 23, 67-78. holliday_reyna_brainerd_JECP_2008.pdf
Odegard, T.N., Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2008). Attention to global gist processing eliminates age effects in false memories. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 99 (2), 96-113. odegard_holliday_et al_Jecp_2008.pdf
Weekes, B.S., Hamilton, S., Oakhill, J., & Holliday, R.E. (2008). False recollection in children with reading comprehension difficulties. Cognition, 106 (1), 222-233. weekes_Hamilton_Oakhill_holliday_Cognition_2008.pdf
Wright, A.M. & Holliday, R.E. (2007). Interviewing cognitively impaired older adults: how useful is a cognitive interview? Memory, 15, 17-33. wright_holliday_Memory.pdf
Wright, A.M. & Holliday, R.E. (2007). Enhancing the recall of young, young-old and old-old adults with the cognitive interview and a modified version of the cognitive interview. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 19-43. wright & Holliday ACP 2007.pdf
Hamilton S., Holliday R., Hutton S., Johnson F., & Weekes B. (2006). Hybrid false recollection: Evidence from ERP. Journal of Psychophysiology, 20 (4), 324-324.
Ibanez-Molina, A., Su, I-F., Knight, C., Holliday, R., & Weekes, B.S. (2006). False recollection among bilingual speakers: Evidence from EEG. Brain and Language, 99, 169-171.
Holliday, R.E., & Weekes, B.S. (2006). Dissociated developmental trajectories for semantic and phonological false memories. Memory, 14, 624-636. holliday & Weekes Memory 2006.pdf
Memon, A., Holliday, R.E., & Hill, C. (2006). Pre-event stereotypes and misinformation effects in young children. Memory, 14, 104-114.memon holliday & hill 2006 Memory.pdf
Holliday, R. E., Hamilton, S., Luthra, A., Oddy, M. & Weekes, B. (2005). Text comprehension after head injury: Missing the gist? Brain & Language, 95, 74-75. holliday et al 2005 brain + language.pdf
Weekes, B. Birley, M., Stein, K. & Holliday, R.E. (2005). Relative false recollection in dementia: A cross linguistic comparison. Brain & Language. 95, 145-146. weekes holliday et al 2005 Brain + Language.pdf
Weekes, B.S., Mulqueeny, K., & Holliday, R.E. (in press). Phonological false recollection: An EEG study. Journal of Psychophysiology.
Wright, A.M. & Holliday, R. E. (2005). Police perceptions of older eyewitnesses. Legal & Criminological Psychology, 10, 211-223. wright_Holliday_LCP_2005.pdf
Brainerd, C. J., Holliday, R. E., & Reyna, V. F. (2004). Behavioral assessment of remembering phenomenologies: So simple a child can do it. Child Development, 75, 505-522. brainerd holliday reyna Child Development 2004.pdf
Holliday, R.E., & Albon, A.J. (2004).Minimising misinformation effects in young children with cognitive interview mnemonics. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 263-281. Holliday & Albon ACP 2004.pdf
Holliday, R.E. (2003). Reducing misinformation effects in children with Cognitive interviews: Dissociating recollection and familiarity. Child Development, 74, 728-751. holliday_Child_Development_2003.pdf
Holliday, R. E. (2003). The effect of a prior cognitive interview on children's acceptance of misinformation. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 443-457. holliday 2003 acp.pdf
Wright, A. & Holliday, R. E. (2003). Interviewing elderly witnesses and victims. Forensic Update.
Holliday, R. E., & Hayes, B. K. (2002). Automatic and intentional processes in children's recognition memory: the reversed misinformation effect. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 16, 1-16. holliday_Hayes_reversed_misinfo_ACP_2002.pdf
Holliday, R. E., Reyna, V. F., & Hayes, B. K. (2002). Memory processes underlying misinformation effects in child witnesses. Developmental Review, 22 (1), 37-77. holliday reyna hayes Developmental Review 2002.pdf
Reyna, V. F., Holliday, R. E., & Marche, T. (2002). Explaining the development of false memories. Developmental Review, 22, 436-489. Special issue on Developmental Forensics. reyna holliday marche Developmental review 2002.pdf
Holliday, R. E., & Hayes, B. K. (2001). Automatic and intentional processes in children’s eyewitness suggestibility. Cognitive Development, 16, 617-636. holliday_Hayes_Cognitive_devel_2001.pdf
Holliday, R. E., & Hayes, B. K. (2000). Dissociating automatic and intentional processes in children's eyewitness memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 75, 1-42. holliday_hayes_JECP_2000.pdf
Holliday, R. E., Douglas, K., & Hayes, B. K. (1999). Children's eyewitness suggestibility: memory trace strength revisited. Cognitive Development, 14, 443-62. holliday_douglas_hayes_CogDevel_1999.pdf
Peer-reviewed conference papers
2011
Holliday, RE, & Humphries, JE. (2011, November). Recollection of details never experienced: The effect of speculation. Presented at 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, Washington.
2010
Brainerd, Reyna, Holliday & Nakamura (2010, November). Memory is irrational, too: Disjunction Fallacies in episodic memory. Paper presented at 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St Louis, MO.
2009
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J. & Reyna, V.F. (2009, November). Reversing developmental reversals in false memory. Presented at 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
Holliday, R.E., Humphries, J.E., Lyons, A., Houlder, L. (2009, September). Reducing misinformation effects in older adults with Cognitive interviews. Paper presented at European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), Sorrento, Italy. HOLLIDAY_EAPL_paper_CI_misinfo_2009.pdf
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J. & Reyna, V.F. (2009, April). The effects of arousal and valence on children's true and false memories. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Denver, CO. Holliday_2009_srcd_drm_emotion.pdf
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J. & Reyna, V.F. (2009, April). Developmental Reversals in False Memory Under Verbatim-Processing Conditions. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Denver, CO. Holliday_2009_srcd_DRM.pdf
Humphries, J.E., & Holliday, R.E. (2009, March). Isolating the effects of Cognitive interview instructions on witness testimony. American Psychology & Law Society meeting (APLS), San Antonio, TX. CI_research_elderly_APLS_poster_2009_FINAL.pdf
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., Odegard, T.N. & Reyna, V.F. (2008, November). Child normed categorical materials produce age differences in false memories. 49th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, ILL.
Holliday, R.E., & Odegard, T.N. (Chairs). Symposium: The Gist of Aging: Reasoning Implications for Cognitive Neuroscience. 49th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, ILL.
Weekes, B., Roberts, K., Sayers, M. & Holliday R.E. (2007, July). Illusory voice recollection. Presented at the joint meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society and Psychonomic Society, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Holliday, R.E. (2007, April). Memory processes underlying misinformation effects in children. Invited paper in symposium: Memory Pre-Game. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Boston, MA. Pre-memory game Holliday talk.pdf
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2007, April). Age increases in children’s false memories: The effects of encoding tasks. Paper presented in symposium False Memory Increases from Childhood to Adulthood: Why Are Children More Accurate? Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Boston, MA. Discussant: Professor Gail Goodman.
Holliday, R.E., Odegard, T.N., Brainerd, C.J., Reyna, V.F., & Franklin, K. (2006, November). Memory illusions for conjunctions in children and adults: the effect of thematic context. Presented at 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.
Mulqueeny,K., Snook, S., Holliday, R.E., & Weekes, B.S. (2006, November). Effects of spelling rime consistency on phonological false recollection. Presented at 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.
Wright, A.M. & Holliday, R.E. (2006, July). Interviewing Cognitively Impaired Older Adults: How useful is a Cognitive Interview? Paper presented at 2nd International Investigative Interviewing Conference, Portsmouth, UK.
Ferguson, J.E., & Holliday, R.E. (2006, June). The effect of movement and line-up presentation on eyewitness identifications. Paper presented at British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference (DFS), Preston, UK.
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2006, July). Generation of meaning associated words at study reduces false recognition in young children. Invited symposium – Children’s False Memories. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4), Sydney, Australia.
Hamilton, S., Holliday, R.E., Weekes, B.S., Johnson, F., & Hutton, S. False recollection of semantic, phonological and hybrid associates: An EEG study. (2006, January). Presented at the meeting of the Experimental Psychological Society (EPS), University College London.
Hamilton, S., Holliday, R.E., Johnson, F., & Weekes, B.S. (2005, November). Hybrid false recollection: Evidence from ERP. Presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada. weekes 2005 Psychonomic.pdf
Holliday, R.E., Odegard, T., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2005, November). Memory illusions and repeated testing in children: The “reversed” DRM effect. Presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
Odegard, T., Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2005, November). Generating study items increases older children’s reliance on gist and younger children’s reliance on verbatim memories. Presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, Canada.
Weekes, B.S., Birley, M., Stein, K. & Holliday, R.E. (2005, October). Relative false recollection in dementia: A cross-linguistic comparison. Presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Amsterdam.
Holliday, R.E., Hamilton, S., Luthra, A., Oddy, M., & Weekes, B.S. (2005, October). Impaired comprehension of text after traumatic brain injury: Missing the gist? Presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Amsterdam.
Holliday, R.E., Memon, A., & Hill, C. (2005, April). Pre-event stereotypes and misinformation effects in young children: Dissociating recollection and familiarity. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Atlanta, GA.SRCD 2005 holliday et al .pdf
Hamilton, S., Davies, R., Holliday, R.E., Lester, K., Oakhill, J. & Weekes, B.S. (2005, January). False memory effects among children with reading difficulties. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) meeting, London, UK.
Ferguson, J. E. & Holliday, R.E. (2005, January). Children's eyewitness identifications: Decision processes, elimination lineups and confidence judgements. Paper presented at 6th Biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Wellington, New Zealand.
Holliday, R.E., Oakhill, J., Hamilton, S., Davies, R. & Weekes, B.S. (2005, January). False memory effects among children with reading difficulties. Paper presented at 6th Biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Wellington, New Zealand.
Weekes, B.S., & Holliday, R.E. (2005, January). Bilingual speakers show false memory effects in their non-native language. Paper presented at 6th Biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Wellington, New Zealand.
Weekes, B.S., Holliday, R.E., Oakhill, J. & Davies, R. (2004, June). False memory effects among children with reading difficulties. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Study of Reading. Amsterdam.
Holliday & Albon (2004, May). Minimising misinformation effects in young children with cognitive interviews. resented at the American Psychological Society (APS) 16th Annual Convention, Chicago.
Holliday & Albon (2004, April). Dissociating memory processes underlying children’s acceptance of misinformation in the context of forensic interviews. Presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference (BPS), Imperial College, London.
Memon, Holliday & Hill (2004, March). Jim is a very clumsy man! Pre-event stereotypes and false memories in children. Presented at the American Psychology-Law Society meeting (APLS), Scottsdale, Arizona.
Weekes, B.S., Holliday, R.E., Lee, K., Kang, S., & Hayward, E. (2003, November). False memory effects on spoken word recognition among bilingual speakers. Paper presented at 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Weekes, B.S., Holliday, R.E., & Albon, A.J. (2003, November). Phonological false memories effects and dyslexia. Poster presented at 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Holliday, R.E., Reyna, V.F., & Brainerd, C.J. (2003, November). Developmental Changes in False Memory Following Gist Cuing and Verbatim Repetition. Poster presented at 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Holliday, R.E. (2003, July). Reducing misinformation effects in young children with Cognitive interviews: Dissociating recollection and familiarity. Paper presented at the European Association of Psychology and Law Conference (EAPL), Edinburgh, Scotland.
Holliday, R.E., Brainerd, C.J., & Reyna, V.F. (2003, July). Gist cuing increases and repetition decreases the false-memory illusion in children. Paper presented at the 5th Biennial meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Aberdeen, Scotland.
Memon, A., Hill, C., Quinn, D., & Holliday, R.E. (2003, July). The role of social and emotional factors on children`s eyewitness testimony. Paper presented at the Fifth Bienniel Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC), Aberdeen, Scotland.
Holliday, R.E., & Brainerd, C.J. (2003, April). Gist cuing increases the false-memory illusion in children. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Tampa, Florida.
Holliday, R.E. (2003, April). Young children can exclude misinformation in the context of investigative interviews: The role of automatic and intentional memory processes. Invited paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Tampa, Florida.
Brainerd,C.J., Reyna, V.F., Holliday, R.E., & Wright, R. (2002, November) Are young children susceptible to the DRM illusion? Paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Austin, Texas.
Wright, A.M., & Holliday, R.E. (2002, September). The effect of the Enhanced Cognitive, Modified Cognitive and Structured interviews on the quality and quantity of recall in adult eyewitnesses aged 60 to 74 and 75 to 92 years. Paper presented at The British Psychological Society Division of Cognitive Psychology Conference (BPS), Canterbury, UK.
Holliday, R. E. (2002, April). Dissociating memory processes underlying misinformation effects in young children. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) Meeting in Leuven, Belgium.
Holliday, R. E. (2002, April). Does a Cognitive Interview given after misinformation reduce children's suggestibility? Paper presented at The British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology (DFS) Conference in Manchester, UK.
Holliday, R. E. & Spyrou, M. (2002, April). The effect of Cognitive and Memorandum interviews on children's subsequent reporting of misinformation. Paper presented at The British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology (DFS) Conference in Manchester, UK.
Wright, A. & Holliday, R.E. (2002, April). The effect of Enhanced Cognitive, Modified Cognitive and Memorandum interviews on the quality and quantity of recall in elderly eyewitnesses. Paper presented at The British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology (DFS) Conference in Manchester, UK.
Holliday, R. E. & Brainerd, C. J. (2001, November). Phantom recollection in children and adolescents. Poster presented at 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, Florida.
Holliday, R. E., & Hayes, B. K. (2001, July). Automatic and intentional processes underlying children's suggestibility on the standard and modified tests. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Memory (ICOM-3), Valencia, Spain.
Holliday, R. E., & Hayes, B. K. (2001, April). Automatic and intentional processes in children's memory: The reversed misinformation effect. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Minneapolis, MN.
Holliday, R. E., & Hayes, B. K. (1997, November). Memory processes and children's eyewitness suggestibility. Paper presented at Faculty of Science & Mathematics Postgraduate Students' Conference, University of Newcastle.
Holliday, R. E. (1996, October). A developmental study of the suggestibility effect: a re-examination of trace-strength theory. Paper presented at Australian Postgraduate Students' Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Grants
2007-2010: Holliday, RE., Milne, R., Bull, R., & Memon, A. The Leverhulme Trust. Interviewing the older eyewitness: Out of sight but not out of mind?
2009, April Study leave visit to Cornell University as Visiting Professor.
2008, April Visiting Professor - Human Development Cornell University.
2008, November Royal Society Conference Grant to attend 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Chicago, ILL.
2008-2009 Holliday, RE., & Janssen, D. Knowledge Transfer Partnership - University of Kent & By the Bridge Ltd; Momenta & ESRC.
2008-2010 Holliday, RE. Experimental Psychology Society (EPS). Framing effects in risky decision making: A developmental investigation.
2007: Holliday, R.E. Study leave visit to Cornell University as Visiting Professor.
2006: Holliday R E. The Royal Society overseas travel grant.
2006: Holliday R.E. The British Academy small grant: Dissociating recognition processes in true and false memories for conjunctions
2004: Holliday, RE. British Academy, Joint international activities award, Process underlying children’s false memories: Recollection rejection and phantom recollection, with Professors Brainerd and Reyna at the University of Texas, Arlington.
2003-5: Weekes, BS., Holliday, RE., & Oakhill, J. & Davies, R. ESRC- Reading comprehension difficulties and false memory.
2002-04: Memon, A., & Holliday, RE. ESRC. Creation of false reports in children with stereotypes.
2002-2003: Holliday, RE. Faculty of Social Sciences University of Kent, Children’s ability to edit false memories.
2001-2003: Holliday, RE., ESRC Suggestibility effects in children: Memory processes and interviewing techniques.
2000: Holliday, RE. The Maconochie prize for PhD research in the area of Forensic Psychology, Australian Psychological Society.
1996-1999 Holliday, RE. Australian Postgraduate Award.
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