Andrew M. Smith, PhD

PROF. ANDREW M. SMITH

I'm Andrew Smith. I'm an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Psychology at Iowa State University where I am affiliated with both the Cognitive Psychology program and the Psychology and Law Research group. Along with Distinguished Professor Gary L. Wells, I am the Co-PI of the Psychology and Law Research Lab. My research examines the diagnostic accuracy and reliability of eyewitness identification procedures. In addition, I am interested in the quantification of diagnostic accuracy and in construct validity as it relates to measuring memory performance.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Lineups undermine the capacity for eyewitness memory to rule out innocent suspects

Witness with weak memories are more likely to identify innocent people because they adopt more lenient decision criteria

Falsification of the diagnostic-feature-detection hypothesis that increasing lure-target similarity improves memory performance