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Dr. Kate Houston Department of Psychology University of Texas at El Paso El Paso Texas, 79968 U.S.A Email: KHouston@utep.edu |
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Disclaimer: Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these pages and documents are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Government or the University of Texas at El Paso nor do they reflect institutional policy. |
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Kate Houston, PhD |
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Eyewitness Identification Errors |
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During the course of my research investigating eyewitness identification evidence I found that familiarity and, more importantly, the context that a face is encountered in at the time of the identification, play a large role in whether the eyewitness is likely to make an accurate decision. |
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The Role of Emotions in Eyewitness Memory |
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My PhD research consisted of a series of experiments investigating the possible role of anger in eyewitness memory accuracy and completeness. A line of research investigating the possible effects of an individual emotion on memory is a departure from the literature which has previously investigated the role of ‘emotion’ in memory, with the most delineated definition being ‘positive and negative emotion’. |
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Links to Further Information |
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Research |
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Best Practice for Forensic Interviews |
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My post-doctoral research focuses on best practices during forensic interviews of suspects and witnesses. This research is primarily investigating those techniques which have the potential to both minimize false information provision/false confessions from innocent parties while maximizing information gain from guilty persons. This research has application both within the criminal justice system and counter-terrorism contexts. |
