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Christian A. Meissner

Christian A. Meissner

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
12711
World Ranking
5838
National Ranking
3168

Christian A. Meissner publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christian A. Meissner sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 136 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Christian A. Meissner D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christian A. Meissner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Christian A. Meissner is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and social sciences, focusing primarily on deception detection and forensic psychology. Meissner's scholarly output includes work examining memory processes, psychopathy and forensic psychiatry, misinformation impacts, and jury decision-making processes.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

In more specific subfields, their research concentrates on:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Christian A. Meissner has published extensively in notable venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Law and Human Behavior
  • Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • Applied police briefings:
  • SLEEP

Recent publications reflect a focus on investigative and forensic psychology, including:

  • "Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence." (2020, Law and Human Behavior)
  • "Evaluating the benefits of a rapport-based approach to investigative interviews: A training study with law enforcement investigators." (2021, Law and Human Behavior)
  • "Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada" (2020, Legal and Criminological Psychology)
  • ""What works?" Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of the investigative interviewing research literature" (2021, Applied Cognitive Psychology)
  • "Using disclosure, common ground, and verification to build rapport and elicit information." (2021, Psychology Public Policy and Law)

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Allison D. Redlich
  • Steven M. Kleinman
  • Rachel E. Dianiska
  • Amelia Mindthoff
  • Zlatan Križan

Christian A. Meissner has received recognition as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Thirty years of investigating the own-race bias in memory for faces: A meta-analytic review

    Christian A. Meissner;John C. Brigham

  • "He's guilty!": investigator bias in judgments of truth and deception.

    Christian A. Meissner;Saul M. Kassin

  • The Cognitive Interview: A meta-analytic review and study space analysis of the past 25 years.

    Amina Memon;Christian A. Meissner;Joanne Fraser

  • Police interviewing and interrogation: a self-report survey of police practices and beliefs.

    Saul M. Kassin;Saul M. Kassin;Richard A. Leo;Christian A. Meissner;Kimberly D. Richman

  • Investigating True and False Confessions Within a Novel Experimental Paradigm

    Melissa B. Russano;Christian A. Meissner;Fadia M. Narchet;Saul M. Kassin

  • Racial bias in mock juror decision-making: a meta-analytic review of defendant treatment.

    Tara L. Mitchell;Ryann M. Haw;Jeffrey E. Pfeifer;Christian A. Meissner

  • "I'd Know a False Confession if I Saw One": A Comparative Study of College Students and Police Investigators

    Saul M. Kassin;Christian A. Meissner;Rebecca J. Norwick

  • A meta-analysis of the verbal overshadowing effect in face identification

    Christian A. Meissner;John C. Brigham

  • Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence.

    Gary L. Wells;Margaret Bull Kovera;Amy Bradfield Douglass;Neil Brewer

  • Accusatorial and information-gathering interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions: a meta-analytic review

    Christian A. Meissner;Allison D. Redlich;Stephen W. Michael;Jacqueline R. Evans

  • Eyewitness decisions in simultaneous and sequential lineups: A dual-process signal detection theory analysis

    Christian A. Meissner;Colin G. Tredoux;Janat F. Parker;Otto H. MacLin

  • Does Training Improve the Detection of Deception? A Meta-Analysis

    Valerie Hauch;Siegfried L. Sporer;Stephen W. Michael;Christian A. Meissner

  • Memory for own- and other-race faces: A dual-process approach

    Christian A. Meissner;John C. Brigham;David A. Butz

  • Social and Cognitive Factors Affecting the Own-Race Bias in Whites

    Ashlyn E. Slone;John C. Brigham;Christian A. Meissner

  • Letter to the Editor- Context Management Toolbox: A Linear Sequential Unmasking (LSU) Approach for Minimizing Cognitive Bias in Forensic Decision Making.

    Itiel E. Dror;J.D. William C. Thompson Ph.D.;Christian A. Meissner;Irv Kornfield

  • Registered Replication Report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990)

    V. K. Alogna;M. K. Attaya;P. Aucoin;Š. Bahník

  • Modeling the influence of investigator bias on the elicitation of true and false confessions.

    Fadia M. Narchet;Christian A. Meissner;Melissa B. Russano

  • The influence of retrieval processes in verbal overshadowing.

    Christian A. Meissner;John C. Brigham;Colleen M. Kelley

  • Criminal versus HUMINT Interrogations: The Importance of Psychological Science to Improving Interrogative Practice:

    Jacqueline R. Evans;Christian A. Meissner;Susan E. Brandon;Melissa B. Russano

  • The Effects of Accomplice Witnesses and Jailhouse Informants on Jury Decision Making

    Jeffrey S. Neuschatz;Deah S. Lawson;Jessica K. Swanner;Christian A. Meissner

  • Police Interviewing and Interrogation: A Self-Report Survey of Police Practices and Beliefs

    Richard A. Leo;Saul M. Kassin;Christian A. Meissner;Christian A. Meissner;Kimberly D. Richman

Frequent Co-Authors

Saul M. Kassin
Saul M. Kassin John Jay College of Criminal Justice
John C. Brigham
John C. Brigham Florida State University
Allison D. Redlich
Allison D. Redlich George Mason University
Bennett L. Schwartz
Bennett L. Schwartz Florida International University
Roy S. Malpass
Roy S. Malpass The University of Texas at El Paso
Brian H. Bornstein
Brian H. Bornstein Arizona State University
Siegfried L. Sporer
Siegfried L. Sporer University of Giessen
Richard A. Leo
Richard A. Leo University of San Francisco
Amina Memon
Amina Memon Royal Holloway University of London
Aldert Vrij
Aldert Vrij University of Portsmouth

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