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Research papers published since 2000

2006 - present

Almerigogna, J., Ost, J., Bull, R., & Akehurst, L.  (2007). A state of high anxiety: How unsupportive interviewers can increase the suggestibility of child witnesses.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 963-974.

Berkowitz, S.R., Laney, C., Morris, E.K., Garry, M., & Loftus, E.F. (2008). Pluto behaving badly: False beliefs and their consequences. American Journal of Psychology, 121, 643-660.

Boon, J.C.W. & Gozna, L, F. (2009) Firing pea-shooters at elephants. The Psychologist,22-9,762-765.

Boon, J.C.W., Gozna, L.F. & Hall, S. (2008). Detecting 'faking bad' on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales. Personality and Individual Differences, 44, 263-272.

Bull, R. and Soukara, S.  (In press).  A set of studies of what really happens in police interviews with suspects.  In G.D. Lassiter and C. Meissner (Eds.) Interrogations and confessions.  Washington: American Psychological Association. 

Bull,R., Valentine, T., & Williamson, T.  (Eds.) (2009). Handbook of psychology of investigative interviewing.  Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell

Bull, R., Feix, M. & Stein, L.  (2009). Detectando mentiras em entrevistas forenses. In S. Rovinski and R. Cruz (Eds.) Psicologia juridica: Perspevtivas teoricas e processos de intervencao.  Sao Paulo: Vetor.

Charles, K.E. & Egan, V.  (2009).  Military interests are not a simple predictor of adolescent offending: evidence from a large normal British sample.  Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 235 – 240.

Charles, K.E. & Egan, V.  (2008).  Sensational and extreme interests in adolescents.  In R.N. Koksis (Ed.) The Psychology of Serial and Violent Crimes and their Criminal Investigation.  The Humana Press. Lts, 63 – 83.

Clifasefi, S. L., Takarangi, M. K. T., & Bergman, J. S. (2006). Blind Drunk: The effects of alcohol on inattentional blindness. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 697-704.

Curran, J. and Bull, R.  (2009).  An evaluation of the ‘Ross Program’.  Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 16, S81-S89.

Davies, G., Hollin, C., and Bull, R. (Eds.)  (2008).  Forensic psychology.  Chichester: Wiley. 

Drake, K. and Bull, R.  (In press).  Individual differences in interrogative suggestibility: Life adversity and field-dependence.   Psychology, Crime and Law.

Drake, K., Bull, R., and Boon, J. (2008). Interrogative suggestibility, self esteem, and the influence of negative life events.  Legal and Criminological Psychology, 13, 299-307.

Egan, V.  (in press) Personality theories and offending. In Brown, J., (editor).  Cambridge Dictionary of Forensic Psychology.  Cambridge University Press (in press).

Egan, V.  (2009). The ‘Big Five’: Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness as an organisational scheme for thinking about aggression and violence.  In:

Egan, V, Campbell, V.  (2009).  Sensational interests, sustaining fantasies and personality predict physical aggression.  Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 464 - 469.

Egan, V., Cordan, G,.  (2009).  Barely legal: perceptions of attraction and age as a function of make-up, sex, age of participant and alcohol use.  British Journal of Psychology, 100, 415 – 427

Egan, V., Hamilton, E.  (2008).  Personality, mating effort and alcohol-related violence expectancies.  Addiction Research and Theory, 16, 369 – 381.

Gordon, V. Egan, V.  (in press) What self-report impulsivity measure best predicts criminal convictions and prison breaches of discipline?  Psychology, Crime and the Law, (in press).

Haggar-Johnstone, G.,  Egan, V..  (in press) Sadistic personality disorder and sensational interests.  Journal of Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry (in press).

Hatcher, R. M. (2008). Psychological skills in working with offenders. In G. M. Davies, R. Bull and C. R. Hollin. Forensic Psychology. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Hatcher, R. M. & Noakes, S. (in press). Working with sex offenders: The impact on Australian treatment providers. Psychology, Crime and Law.

Hatcher, R. M., Palmer, E. J., McGuire, J., Hounsome, J. C., Bilby, C. A. L. & Hollin, C. R. (2008). Aggression Replacement Training with adult male offenders within community settings: A reconviction analysis. Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 19, 517-532.

Henry, O., Mandeville-Norden, R., Hayes, E., Egan, V.  Do Internet Sexual Offenders reduce to normal, inadequate and deviant groups?  Journal of Sexual Aggression (submitted).

Hollin, C. R., & Hatcher, R. M. (in press). Working with young offenders. In K. D. Browne, A. R. Beech, and L. A. Craig. Assessments in forensic practice: A handbook. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

Hollin, C. R., McGuire, J., Hounsome, J., Hatcher, R., Bilby, C., & Palmer, E. J. (2008). Cognitive skills offending behaviour programmes in the community: A reconviction analysis. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 35, 269-283.

Hollin, C. R., Palmer, E. P., & Hatcher, R. M. (in press). Sexual offences again children. In F. Brookman, T. Bennett, M. Maguire, and H. Pierpoint. Handbook of crime. Cullompton, Devon: Willan.

Hollin, C. R., Hatcher, R. M., & Palmer, E. P. (in press). Sexual offences against adults. In F. Brookman, T. Bennett, M. Maguire, and H. Pierpoint. Handbook of crime. Cullompton, Devon: Willan.

Jamel, J., Bull, R., and Sheridan, L.  (2008). An investigation of the specialist police service provided to male rape survivors.  International Journal of Police Science and Management, 10, 486-508.

Kask, K. and Bull, R.  (In press).  The effects of different presentation methods on multi-ethnicity face recognition.  Psychology, Crime and Law.

Kask, K. and Bull, R.  (2009).  From person descriptions to interviewing methods: What can be done to improve child witnesses’ testimonies?  Trames, 2, 95-108.

Kask, K., Bull, R., Heinla, I., and Davies, G.  (2007).  The effect of a standard to assist children’s person descriptions.  Journal of Police and Criminological Psychology, 22, 77-83.

Laney, C. (in press). Unbelievable eyewitnesses. Psychology Review.

Laney, C., Bowman Fowler, N., Nelson, K.J., Bernstein, D.B., & Loftus. E.F. (2008). The persistence of false beliefs. Acta Psychologica, 129, 190-197.

Laney, C., Kaasa, S.O., Morris, E.K., Berkowitz, S.R., Bernstein, D.M., & Loftus, E.F. (2008). The red herring technique: A methodological response to the problem of demand characteristics. Psychological Research, 72, 362-375.

Laney, C., & Loftus, E.F. (in press). Truth in emotional memories. In B. H. Bornstein & R.L. Wiener (Eds.) Emotion and the law: Psychological perspectives. Springer.

Laney, C., & Loftus, E.F. (in press). Change blindness and eyewitness testimony. In G.M. Davies & D.B. Wright (Eds.), Current issues in applied memory research. Psychology Press.

Laney, C., & Loftus, E.F. (in press). False memory. In J. Brown & E. Campbell (Eds.), Handbook of forensic psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Laney, C., & Loftus, E.F. (2009). Distortions of memory. In T. Bayne, A. Cleeremans, & P. Wilken (Eds.), Oxford companion to consciousness (pp. 426-427). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Laney, C., & Loftus, E.F. (2009). Eyewitness memory. In R. N. Kocsis (Ed.), Applied criminal psychology: A guide to forensic behavioral sciences (pp. 121-145). Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.

Laney, C., & Loftus, E.F. (2008). Emotional content of true and false memories. Memory, 16, 500-516.

Laney, C., Morris, E.K., Bernstein, D.M., Wakefield, B.M., & Loftus, E.F. (2008). Asparagus, a love story: Healthier eating could be just a false memory away. Experimental Psychology, 55, 291-300. 

Levine, L.J., Burgess, S.L., & Laney, C. (2008). Effects of discrete emotions on young children's suggestibility. Developmental Psychology, 44, 681-694.

McGuire, J., Bilby, C., Hatcher, R. M., Hollin, C. R., Hounsome, J., Palmer, E. J. (2008). Evaluation of structured cognitive-behavioural treatment programmes in reducing criminal recidivism. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 4, 21-40.

Mitchell, I.J., Rutherford, V., Wrinch, K.A.J., Egan, V.  (2008).  Paradoxical effects of acute alcohol intoxication in a convivial social setting on attitudes to violence.  Addiction Research and Therapy, 16, 503 - 513.

Nelson, A., Woodhams, J. A., & Hatcher, R. M. (in press). Female prisoners’ explanations of bullying in prison and their methods of coping: A multinational perspective. Psychology, Crime and Law.

Palmer, E. J., McGuire, J., Hatcher, R. M., Hounsome, J., Bilby, C. A. L., & Hollin, C. R. (2008). The importance of appropriate allocation to offending behaviour programmes. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 52, 206-221.

Palmer, E. J., McGuire, J., Hounsome, J., Hatcher, R., Bilby, C., & Hollin, C. R. (2007). Offending behaviour programmes in the community: The effects on reconviction of three programmes with adult male offenders. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 12, 251-264.

Palmer, E. P., Hollin, C. R., Hatcher, R. M., & Ayres, T. (in press). Arson. In F. Brookman, T. Bennett, M. Maguire, and H. Pierpoint. Handbook of crime. Cullompton, Devon: Willan.

Palmer, E. J., McGuire, J., Hatcher, R. M., Hounsome, J. C., Bilby, C. A. L., & Hollin, C. R. (2009). Allocation to offending behavior programs in the English and Welsh Probation Service. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 36, 909-922.

Philippon, A., Cherryman, J., Vrij, A., and Bull, R.  (2008). Why is my voice so easily recognized in identity parades? Influence of first impressions on voice identification.  Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 15, 70-77.

Shawyer, A., Milne, R., and Bull, R.  (In press).  Investigative interviewing in the UK.  In S. Savage, R. Milne, and T. Williamson (Eds.)  International developments in investigative interviewing. Cullompton: Willan. 

Sleath, E. and Bull, R.  (In press). Male rape victim and perpetrator blaming.  Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Soukara, S., Bull, R., Vrij, A., Turner, M., and Cherryman, C.  (2009).  A study of what really happens in police interviews with suspects.  Psychology, Crime and Law, 15, 493-506.

Takarangi, M. K. T., Garry, M., & Loftus, E. F. (2006). Dear diary, is paper better than plastic? I can’t remember. Psychological Methods, 11, 119-122

Takarangi, M. K. T., Parker, S., & Garry, M. (2006). Modernizing the misinformation effect: The development and implementation of a new set of measurement tools. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 583-590.

Takarangi, M. K. T., Polaschek, D. L. L., Garry, M., & Loftus, E. F. (2008). Psychological science, victim advocates, and the problem of recovered memories. International Review of Victimology, 15, 147-163.

Takarangi, M. K. T., Polaschek, D. L. L., Hignett, A. J., & Garry, M. (2007). Chronic and temporary aggression causes hostile false memories for ambiguous information. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 39-49.

Takarangi, M. K. T., & Strange, D. (in press). Emotional impact feedback changes how we remember negative autobiographical experiences. Experimental Psychology.

Vrij, A., Mann, S., Fisher, R., Leal, S., Milne, R., and Bull, R.  (2008).  Increasing cognitive load to facilitate lie detection.  Law and Human Behavior, 28, 253-265.

Wade, K., & Laney, C. (2008). Time to rewrite your autobiography? The Psychologist, 21, 588-592.

Walsh, D. and Bull, R.  (In press).  Interviewing regarding fraud.  Journal of Psychiatry and Law.

Walsh, D. and Bull, R.  (In press).  What really is effective in interviews with suspects? A study comparing interview skills against interview outcomes. Legal and Criminological Psychology.

Wilcock, R. and Bull, R.  (In press).  Novel lineup methods for improving the performance of older eyewitnesses.  Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Wilcock, R., Bull, R., and Milne, R.  (2008).  Person identification: Psychology and practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Woodhams, J., Bull, R., and Hollin, C. (2007).  Case linkage: Identifying crimes committed by the same offender.  In R. Kocsis (Ed.). Criminal profiling: International perspectives in theory, practice and research.  Totowa, NJ. : Humana Press.

Woodhams, J., & Hatcher, R. M. (in press). Introductory Comments to the Special Issue: Contemporary Perspectives on Sex Offending, Its Assessment, and Treatment. Psychology, Crime and Law.

Woodhams, J., Hollin, C., and Bull, R.  (2007). The psychology of linking crimes: A review of the evidence.  Legal and Criminological Psychology, 12, 233-249.

Woodhams, J., Hollin, C., and Bull, R. (2008).  Incorporating context in linking crimes: An exploratory study of situational similarity and if-then contingencies.  Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 5, 1-23.

Woodhams, J., Hollin, C., and Bull, R. (2008).  The sexual offending of juveniles.  In R. Kocsis (Ed.). The psychology of serial violent crimes and their investigation.  Totowa, NJ. : Humana Press.

 

2000 - 2005

 

Hatcher, R., & Bilby, C.  (2004).  Evaluation of the general offending pathfinder programmes.  VISTA:  Perspectives on Probation, 8, 137-145.

Hatcher, R. M. & Hollin, C. R. (2005).The identification and management of anti-social and offending behaviour. In J. Winstone and F. Pakes (Eds.) Community justice: Issues for probation and criminal justice. Cullompton, Devon: Willan.

McGuire, J. & Hatcher, R. (2001). Offence focused problem solving: Preliminary evaluation of a cognitive skills program. Criminal Justice and Behaviour, 28(5), 564-587.

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