2026 Steven D. Penrod: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	58	3827	3525	2146	1928	160	16418

Overview

Steven D. Penrod is affiliated with John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the United States. Their academic work focuses on several intersecting fields including Psychology, Social Sciences, and Neuroscience. Within these areas, they have contributed specifically to Cognitive Neuroscience, Law, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Jury Decision Making Processes
Memory Processes and Influences
Deception Detection and Forensic Psychology
Face Recognition and Perception
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Law in Society and Culture

Their recent peer-reviewed publications highlight diverse lines of inquiry. These include:

How to measure lineup fairness: concurrent and predictive validity of lineup-fairness measures, 2024, Psychology Crime and Law
Three-level meta-analysis of the other-race bias in facial identification, 2022, Applied Cognitive Psychology
Improving juror sensitivity to specific eyewitness factors: judicial instructions fail the test, 2020, Psychiatry Psychology and Law
Validity of mock-witness measures for assessing lineup fairness, 2021, Psychology Crime and Law
Eyewitnesses in the courtroom: a jury-level experimental examination of the impact of the Henderson instructions, 2020, Journal of Experimental Criminology

These publications appear across various venues, with multiple papers published in Psychology Crime and Law as well as contributions to Applied Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry Psychology and Law, Journal of Experimental Criminology, and THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY.

Steven D. Penrod collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

Jungwon Lee
Angela M. Jones
Amanda N. Bergold
Jamal K. Mansour
Marlee Kind Dillon

Best Publications

Inside the jury

Reid Hastie;Steven D. Penrod;Nancy Pennington

1604
Citations
Eyewitness Identification Procedures: Recommendations for Lineups and Photospreads

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

1412
Citations
Meta-analysis of facial identification studies.

Peter N. Shapiro;Steven Penrod

874
Citations
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

874
Citations
A meta-analytic review of the effects of high stress on eyewitness memory.

Kenneth A. Deffenbacher;Brian H. Bornstein;Steven D. Penrod;E. Kiernan McGorty

784
Citations
Eyewitness Evidence Improving Its Probative Value

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

622
Citations
Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law

Brian L. Cutler;Steven D. Penrod

542
Citations
Social Influence Model: A formal integration of research on majority and minority influence processes.

Sarah Tanford;Steven Penrod

522
Citations
Effects of long-term exposure to violent and sexually degrading depictions of women.

Daniel G. Linz;Edward Donnerstein;Steven Penrod

518
Citations
The Question of Pornography: Research Findings and Policy Implications

Edward I. Donnerstein;Daniel Linz;Steven Penrod

433
Citations
Witness confidence and witness accuracy: Assessing their forensic relation.

Steven Penrod;Brian Cutler

423
Citations
The reliability of eyewitness identification: The role of system and estimator variables.

Brian L. Cutler;Steven D. Penrod;Todd K. Martens

393
Citations
The Effects of Multiple Exposures to Filmed Violence Against Women

Daniel G. Linz;Edward Donnerstein;Steven Penrod

387
Citations
Juror Decision Making in Eyewitness Identification Cases

Brian L. Cutler;Steven D. Penrod;Thomas E. Stuve

371
Citations
Juror Sensitivity to Eyewitness Identification Evidence

Brian L. Cutler;Steven D. Penrod;Hedy Red Dexter

354
Citations
Reinstatement of context in a field experiment on eyewitness identification.

Carol Krafka;Steven Penrod

279
Citations
Mugshot Exposure Effects: Retroactive Interference, Mugshot Commitment, Source Confusion, and Unconscious Transference

Kenneth A. Deffenbacher;Brian H. Bornstein;Steven D. Penrod

246
Citations
Improving the reliability of eyewitness identification: Lineup construction and presentation.

Brian L. Cutler;Steven D. Penrod

243
Citations
THE EFFECTS OF DAUBERT ON THE ADMISSIBILITY OF EXPERT TESTIMONY IN STATE AND FEDERAL CRIMINAL CASES

Jennifer L. Groscup;Steven D. Penrod;Christina A. Studebaker;Matthew T. Huss

235
Citations
Improving the reliability of eyewitness identification: Putting context into context.

Brian L. Cutler;Steven D. Penrod;Todd K. Martens

210
Citations
Inside the Jury.

V. Lee Hamilton;Reid Hastie;Steven D. Penrod;Nancy Pennington

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian L. Cutler University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Reid Hastie University of Chicago

Daniel Linz University of California, Santa Barbara

Brian H. Bornstein Arizona State University

Gary L. Wells Iowa State University

Edward Donnerstein University of Arizona

Eugene Borgida University of Minnesota

Barry Rosenfeld Fordham University

Siegfried L. Sporer University of Giessen

Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine

External Links

Personal website of Steven D. Penrod

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