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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Gary L. Wells is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the field of Psychology. Their work extensively covers areas intersecting cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, law, and experimental and cognitive psychology. The main topics of their research include deception detection and forensic psychology, memory processes and influences, radiology practices and education, jury decision-making processes, face recognition and perception, law, economics, and judicial systems, as well as criminal law and evidence.

Their publication record features papers in several notable venues, including:

  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Law and Human Behavior
  • Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Gary L. Wells include:

  • "Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence." (2020, Law and Human Behavior)
  • "Distinguishing Between Investigator Discriminability and Eyewitness Discriminability: A Method for Creating Full Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves of Lineup Identification Performance" (2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • "Test a Witness's Memory of a Suspect Only Once" (2021, Gothic.net)
  • "Psychological science on eyewitness identification and its impact on police practices and policies." (2020, American Psychologist)
  • "Plea-Bargaining Law: the Impact of Innocence, Trial Penalty, and Conviction Probability on Plea Outcomes" (2020, American Journal of Criminal Justice)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Laura Smalarz
  • Andrew M. Smith
  • Yueran Yang
  • John T. Wixted
  • Adele Quigley-McBride

Gary L. Wells' work integrates psychological science with forensic applications, often focusing on eyewitness identification and related legal procedures. Their contributions reflect an interdisciplinary approach combining psychology, memory studies, and legal frameworks.

Awards received by Gary L. Wells include the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2017 and recognition as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association since 1986.

Best Publications

  • Eyewitness Identification Procedures: Recommendations for Lineups and Photospreads

    Gary L. Wells;Mark A. Small;Steven D. Penrod;Roy S. Malpass

  • Distraction Can Enhance or Reduce Yielding to Propaganda: Thought Disruption Versus Effort Justification

    Richard E. Petty;Gary L. Wells;Timothy C. Brock

  • Applied eyewitness-testimony research: System variables and estimator variables.

    Gary L. Wells

  • Improving eyewitness identifications from lineups: Simultaneous versus sequential lineup presentation.

    R. C. L. Lindsay;Gary L. Wells

  • Stimulus Sampling and Social Psychological Experimentation

    Gary L. Wells;Paul D. Windschitl

  • lhe Effects of Overt Head Movements on Persuasion: Compatibility and incompatibility of Responses

    Gary L. Wells;Richard E. Petty

  • "Good, you identified the suspect": Feedback to eyewitnesses distorts their reports of the witnessing experience.

    Gary L. Wells;Amy L. Bradfield

  • Eyewitness Evidence Improving Its Probative Value

    Gary L. Wells;Amina Memon;Steven D. Penrod

  • Accuracy, confidence, and juror perceptions in eyewitness identification.

    Gary L. Wells;R. C. Lindsay;Tamara J. Ferguson

  • What do we know about eyewitness identification

    Gary L. Wells

  • The Relationship Between Eyewitness Confidence and Identification Accuracy: A New Synthesis.

    John T. Wixted;Gary L. Wells

  • Mental Simulation of Causality

    Gary L. Wells;Igor Gavanski

  • The Psychology of Lineup Identifications1

    Gary L Wells

  • The confidence-accuracy relationship in eyewitness identification: effects of lineup instructions, foil similarity, and target-absent base rates.

    Neil Douglas Brewer;Gary Wells

  • Eyewitness testimony : psychological perspectives

    Gary L. Wells;Elizabeth F. Loftus

  • From the Lab to the Police Station A Successful Application of Eyewitness Research

    Gary L. Wells;Roy S. Malpass;R. C. L. Lindsay;Ronald P. Fisher

  • Measuring psychological uncertainty: Verbal versus numeric methods

    Paul D. Windschitl;Gary L. Wells

  • Can People Detect Eyewitness-Identification Accuracy Within and Across Situations?

    R. C. L. Lindsay;Gary L. Wells;Carolyn M. Rumpel

  • The malleability of eyewitness confidence: co-witness and perseverance effects

    C. A. Elizabeth Luus;Gary L. Wells

  • The Tractability of Eyewitness Confidence and Its Implications for Triers of Fact

    Gary L. Wells;Tamara J. Ferguson;R. C. Lindsay

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Brewer
Neil Brewer Flinders University
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine
Steven D. Penrod
Steven D. Penrod John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Richard E. Petty
Richard E. Petty The Ohio State University
John H. Harvey
John H. Harvey University of Iowa
Brian L. Cutler
Brian L. Cutler University of Ontario Institute of Technology
John T. Wixted
John T. Wixted University of California, San Diego
Brad J. Bushman
Brad J. Bushman The Ohio State University
Timothy C. Brock
Timothy C. Brock The Ohio State University
Roy S. Malpass
Roy S. Malpass The University of Texas at El Paso

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