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Overview

Kathy Pezdek is affiliated with Claremont Graduate University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with a focus on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their scholarly work includes investigations into topics such as Policing Practices and Perceptions, Memory Processes and Influences, Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology, Face Recognition and Perception, Occupational Health and Safety Research, Gun Ownership and Violence Research, and Radiology Practices and Education.

Recent publications by Kathy Pezdek include:

  • Marijuana impairs the accuracy of eyewitness memory and the confidence-accuracy relationship too, 2020, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Elevated stress impairs the accuracy of eyewitness memory but not the confidence-accuracy relationship, 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied
  • Psychological myths about evidence in the legal system: How should researchers respond?, 2022, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Memory outcomes of police officers viewing their body-worn camera video, 2022, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

They have frequently published in venues such as:

  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Applied Police Briefings
  • Psychology Crime and Law
  • Memory
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied

Kathy Pezdek's frequent co-authors include Daniel Reisberg, Tyler Shapland, Mark Costanzo, Daniel A. Krauss, and Erica Abed.

In addition to journal articles, Kathy Pezdek has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Psychology Press eBooks: Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts (2020).

Best Publications

  • Planting False Childhood Memories: The Role of Event Plausibility

    Kathy Pezdek;Kimberly Finger;Danelle Hodge

  • Cognitive mapping: knowledge of real-world distance and location information.

    Gary W. Evans;Kathy Pezdek

  • Event Memory and Autobiographical Memory for the Events of September 11, 2001

    Kathy Pezdek

  • Memory for Real-World Scenes: The Role of Consistency With Schema Expectation

    Kathy Pezdek;Tony Whetstone;Kirk Reynolds;Nusha Askari

  • The Effect of Memory Trace Strength on Suggestibility.

    Kathy Pezdek;Chantal Roe

  • What research paradigms have cognitive psychologists used to study "false memory," and what are the implications of these choices?

    Kathy Pezdek;Shirley Lam

  • The Science of Child Sexual Abuse

    Jennifer J. Freyd;Frank William Putnam;Thomas D. Lyon;Kathryn A. Becker-Blease

  • Children's Mathematics Achievement: The Role of Parents' Perceptions and Their Involvement in Homework

    Kathy Pezdek;Tifffany Berry;Paul A. Renno

  • Cognitive Maps and Urban Form

    Gary W. Evans;Catherine Smith;Kathy Pezdek

  • Children's face recognition memory: more evidence for the cross-race effect.

    Kathy Pezdek;Iris Blandon-Gitlin;Catherine Moore

  • Planting False Childhood Memories in Children: The Role of Event Plausibility

    Kathy Pezdek;Danelle Hodge

  • Children's Memory for Auditory and Visual Information on Television.

    Kathy Pezdek;Ellen Stevens

  • The effect of the cognitive interview on face identification accuracy: release from verbal overshadowing.

    Kimberly Finger;Kathy Pezdek

  • Motivated Forgetting and Misremembering: Perspectives from Betrayal Trauma Theory

    Anne P. DePrince;Laura S. Brown;Ross E. Cheit;Jennifer J. Freyd

  • Schema-driven source misattribution errors: remembering the expected from a witnessed event

    Heather M. Kleider;Kathy Pezdek;Stephen D. Goldinger;Alice Kirk

  • Memory suggestibility as an example of the sleeper effect

    Joe Underwood;Kathy Pezdek

  • Children's Television Viewing: Attention and Comprehension of Auditory versus Visual Information.

    Kathy Pezdek;Eileen F. Hartman

  • The relationship between reading and cognitive processing of television and radio

    Kathy Pezdek;Ariella Lehrer;Sara Simon

  • The Recovered Memory/False Memory Debate

    William P. Banks;Kathy Pezdek

  • Memory for items and their spatial locations by young and elderly adults.

    Kathy Pezdek

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer J. Freyd
Jennifer J. Freyd University of Oregon
Gary W. Evans
Gary W. Evans Cornell University
Thomas D. Lyon
Thomas D. Lyon University of Southern California
Maryanne Garry
Maryanne Garry University of Waikato
Daniel Reisberg
Daniel Reisberg Reed College
Frank W. Putnam
Frank W. Putnam University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Svein Magnussen
Svein Magnussen University of Oslo
Karen J. Saywitz
Karen J. Saywitz University of California, Los Angeles
Gail S. Goodman
Gail S. Goodman University of California, Davis
Margaret-Ellen Pipe
Margaret-Ellen Pipe City University of New York

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