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Daniel Reisberg

Daniel Reisberg

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Daniel Reisberg is affiliated with Reed College in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the areas of neuroscience and psychology. Their work focuses extensively on cognitive neuroscience, with related studies in social psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, computer vision and pattern recognition, and sociology and political science.

The main topics covered in Daniel Reisberg's research include memory processes and influences, face recognition and perception, deception detection and forensic psychology, radiology practices and education, social and intergroup psychology, and evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Reisberg has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, notably Kathy Pezdek, with whom they have six joint publications. Other collaborators include Erica Abed, Jillian M. Kenchel, Rachel Leigh Greenspan, and Chad S. Dodson.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on eyewitness memory, confidence, and identification processes in legal and applied settings. Notable publications include:

  • "Marijuana impairs the accuracy of eyewitness memory and the confidence-accuracy relationship too." (2020) in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • "Psychological myths about evidence in the legal system: How should researchers respond?" (2022) in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • "'In your own words, how certain are you?' Post-identification feedback distorts verbal and numeric expressions of eyewitness confidence" (2021) in Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • "Is the appearance change instruction ever helpful for eyewitness identifications?" (2025) in Psychology Crime and Law
  • "Police officers have no advantage over civilians when making identifications" (2023) in Applied Cognitive Psychology

The primary publication venues where Reisberg's work appears are the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Psychology Crime and Law, and Memory.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1994.

Best Publications

  • Remembering emotional events.

    Alafair Burke;Friderike Heuer;Daniel Reisberg

  • Vivid memories of emotional events: the accuracy of remembered minutiae.

    Friderike Heuer;Daniel Reisberg

  • Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind

    Daniel Reisberg

  • Intuitions and introspections about imagery: the role of imagery experience in shaping an investigator's theoretical views

    Daniel Reisberg;David G. Pearson;Stephen M. Kosslyn

  • Easy to hear but hard to understand: A lip-reading advantage with intact auditory stimuli.

    Daniel Reisberg;John McLean;Anne Goldfield

  • Memory and emotion.

    Daniel Reisberg;Paula Hertel

  • Can mental images be ambiguous

    Deborah Chambers;Daniel Reisberg

  • Memory for Emotional Events.

    Daniel Reisberg;Friderike Heuer

  • The role of subvocalization in auditory imagery.

    J. David Smith;Margaret Wilson;Daniel Reisberg

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology

    Daniel Reisberg

  • Memory for thematically arousing events.

    Cara Laney;Hannah V. Campbell;Friderike Heuer;Daniel Reisberg

  • What an image depicts depends on what an image means.

    Deborah Chambers;Daniel Reisberg

  • Emotion, arousal, and memory for detail.

    Friderike Heuer;Daniel Reisberg

  • Limits of working memory: The digit digit-span.

    Daniel Reisberg;Ira Rappaport;Mark O'Shaughnessy

  • Learning and memory

    Barry Schwartz;Daniel Reisberg

  • The quantity, not the quality, of affect predicts memory vividness

    Daniel Reisberg;Friderike Heuer;John Mclean;Mark O’shaughnessy

  • Affect and accuracy in recall: Remembering the details of emotional events

    Daniel Reisberg;Friderike Heuer

  • "Enacted" auditory images are ambiguous; "pure" auditory images are not.

    Daniel Reisberg;J. David Smith;David A. Baxter;Marcia Sonenshine

  • Overcoming Stroop interference: the effects of practice on distractor potency

    Daniel Reisberg;Jonathan Baron;Deborah G. Kemler

  • On the Perception of Interleaved Melodies

    Erick Gallun;Daniel Reisberg

Frequent Co-Authors

J. David Smith
J. David Smith Georgia State University
Kathy Pezdek
Kathy Pezdek Claremont Graduate University
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
Daniel J. Simons
Daniel J. Simons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Baron
Jonathan Baron University of Pennsylvania
Cesare Cornoldi
Cesare Cornoldi University of Padua
Robert H. Logie
Robert H. Logie University of Edinburgh
Marlene Behrmann
Marlene Behrmann Carnegie Mellon University

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