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Siegfried L. Sporer

Siegfried L. Sporer

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Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
8389
World Ranking
9373
National Ranking
443

Overview

Siegfried L. Sporer is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and clinical psychology, alongside involvement in sociology and political science as well as computer vision and pattern recognition.

The main topics addressed in Sporer's work include deception detection and forensic psychology, face recognition and perception, psychopathy and forensic psychiatry related to sexual offending, memory processes and influences, social and intergroup psychology, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Sporer has contributed to multiple research articles, several of which were published in notable venues such as Applied Cognitive Psychology, Psychology Crime and Law, Frontiers in Psychology, the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Criminology. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology Crime and Law
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Criminology

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Optimizing CBCA and RM research: recommendations for analyzing and reporting data on content cues to deception" (2020), published in Psychology Crime and Law
  • "Patrolling the Borders: Experience with Multiple Out-Group Members is Associated with the Own-Ethnicity Effect" (2020), published in Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
  • "Does constructing a facial composite affect eyewitness memory? A research synthesis and meta-analysis" (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Criminology
  • "Does exposure to facial composites damage eyewitness memory? A comprehensive review" (2020), published in Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • "Indirect and Unconscious Deception Detection: Too Soon to Give Up?" (2021), published in Frontiers in Psychology

Sporer has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Jaume Masip, Colin Tredoux, Natalie Martschuk, Annelies Vredeveldt, and Kate Kempen. These collaborations have contributed to advancing knowledge in various subfields related to deception detection, memory, and forensic psychology.

Best Publications

  • CHOOSING, CONFIDENCE, AND ACCURACY : A META-ANALYSIS OF THE CONFIDENCE-ACCURACY RELATION IN EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION STUDIES

    Siegfried Ludwig Sporer;Steven Penrod;Don Read;Brian Cutler

  • Recognizing faces of other ethnic groups: An integration of theories.

    Siegfried Ludwig Sporer

  • When a grandiose self-image is threatened: narcissism and self-concept clarity as predictors of negative emotions and aggression following ego-threat.

    Tanja S. Stucke;Siegfried L. Sporer

  • Moderators of nonverbal indicators of deception: A meta-analytic synthesis.

    Siegfried L. Sporer;Barbara Schwandt

  • Paraverbal indicators of deception: a meta‐analytic synthesis

    Siegfried Ludwig Sporer;Barbara Schwandt

  • The detection of deception with the reality monitoring approach: a review of the empirical evidence

    Jaume Masip;Siegfried L. Sporer;Eugenio Garrido;Carmen Herrero

  • The less travelled road to truth: verbal cues in deception detection in accounts of fabricated and self‐experienced events

    Siegfried Ludwig Sporer

  • Eyewitness identification accuracy, confidence, and decision times in simultaneous and sequential lineups

    Siegfried L. Sporer

  • Are Computers Effective Lie Detectors? A Meta-Analysis of Linguistic Cues to Deception

    Valerie Hauch;Iris Blandón-Gitlin;Jaume Masip;Siegfried L Sporer

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

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

  • Post-dicting eyewitness accuracy: Confidence, decision-times and person descriptions of choosers and non-choosers

    Siegfried Ludwig Sporer

  • The cross-race effect: Beyond recognition of faces in the laboratory.

    Siegfried Ludwig Sporer

  • Reality monitoring and detection of deception

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  • Explicit Persuasive Intent and Its Impact on Success at Persuasion—The Determining Roles of Attractiveness and Likeableness

    Marc-André Reinhard;Matthias Messner;Siegfried Ludwig Sporer

  • Fast and confident: postdicting eyewitness identification accuracy in a field study.

    Melanie Sauerland;Siegfried Ludwig Sporer

  • Psychological Issues in Eyewitness Identification

    Siegfried Ludwig Sporer;Roy S. Malpass;Guenter Koehnken

  • Verbal and nonverbal behaviour as a basis for credibility attribution: The impact of task involvement and cognitive capacity

    Marc-André Reinhard;Siegfried Ludwig Sporer

  • Person Descriptions as Eyewitness Evidence

    Christian A. Meissner;Siegfried L. Sporer;Jonathan W. Schooler

  • Deep-deeper-deepest? Encoding strategies and the recognition of human faces

    Siegfried L. Sporer

  • Listening, not watching: Situational familiarity and the ability to detect deception.

    Marc-André Reinhard;Siegfried Ludwig Sporer;Martin Scharmach;Tamara Marksteiner

  • Decision times and eyewitness identification accuracy in simultaneous and sequential lineups

    Siegfried Ludwig Sporer

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy S. Malpass
Roy S. Malpass The University of Texas at El Paso
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Christian A. Meissner
Christian A. Meissner Iowa State University
Ray Bull
Ray Bull University of Derby
Judee K. Burgoon
Judee K. Burgoon University of Arizona
Samantha Mann
Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth
Victoria Talwar
Victoria Talwar McGill University
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Jeffrey T. Hancock Stanford University
Pär Anders Granhag
Pär Anders Granhag University of Gothenburg
Brian L. Cutler
Brian L. Cutler University of Ontario Institute of Technology

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