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Svein Magnussen

Svein Magnussen

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Overview

Svein Magnussen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields such as Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Information Systems, and Political Science and International Relations.

The central themes of Magnussen's research include:

  • Deception detection and forensic psychology
  • Memory processes and influences
  • Psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending
  • European and international law studies
  • Adversarial robustness in machine learning
  • Cybercrime and law enforcement studies
  • Memory and neural mechanisms

Magnussen has contributed to various academic journals over their career, publishing most frequently in:

  • Lov og Rett
  • Tidsskrift for strafferett
  • Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Current Directions in Psychological Science

Recent papers include:

  • Forensic interviews with preschool children: An analysis of extended interviews in Norway (2015-2017), 2020, Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • Research on Non-verbal Signs of Lies and Deceit: A Blind Alley, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Lie Detection: What Works?, 2023, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Knowledge about eyewitness testimony: a survey of Indonesian police officers and psychologists, 2021, Psychology Crime and Law
  • The Science of Lie Detection by Verbal Cues: What Are the Prospects for Its Practical Applicability?, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Tim Brennen
  • Miriam S. Johnson
  • Gunn Astrid Baugerud
  • Ludvig Daae Bjørndal
  • Helle B. G. Hansen

Best Publications

  • Expertise in pictorial perception: eye-movement patterns and visual memory in artists and laymen.

    Stine Vogt;Svein Magnussen

  • The importance of being earnest: displayed emotions and witness credibility

    Geir Kaufmann;Guri C. B. Drevland;Ellen Wessel;Geir Overskeid

  • The psychophysics of perceptual memory.

    Svein Magnussen;Mark W. Greenlee

  • Stimulus-specific mechanisms of visual short-term memory.

    Svein Magnussen;Mark W. Greenlee;Rolf Asplund;Stein Dyrnes

  • Low-level memory processes in vision.

    Svein Magnussen

  • THE TIME COURSE OF ADAPTATION TO SPATIAL CONTRAST

    Mark W. Greenlee;Mark A. Georgeson;Svein Magnussen;John P. Harris

  • Credibility of the Emotional Witness: A Study of Ratings by Court Judges

    Ellen Wessel;Guri C. B. Drevland;Dag Erik Eilertsen;Svein Magnussen

  • Credibility of the emotional witness: A study of ratings by police investigators

    Guri C. Bollingmo;Ellen O. Wessel;Dag Erik Eilertsen;Svein Magnussen

  • What people believe about memory

    Svein Magnussen;Jan Andersson;Cesare Cornoldi;Rossana De Beni

  • Retention and disruption of motion information in visual short-term memory.

    Svein Magnussen;Mark W. Greenlee

  • Perceptual filling-in from the edge of the blind spot.

    Lothar Spillmann;Tobias Otte;Kai Hamburger;Svein Magnussen

  • Through the eyes of the own-race bias: Eye-tracking and pupillometry during face recognition

    Esther Xiu Wen Wu;Bruno Laeng;Svein Magnussen

  • Parallel processing in visual short-term memory

    Svein Magnussen;Mark W. Greenlee;James P. Thomas

  • Beliefs about factors affecting the Reliability of eyewitness testimony: A Comparison of judges, jurors and the general public

    Svein Magnussen;Annika Maria Desiree Melinder;Ulf Stridbeck;Abid Q. Raja

  • Long-term memory for 400 pictures on a common theme.

    Stine Vogt;Svein Magnussen

  • Temporal aspects of spatial adaptation. A study of the tilt aftereffect.

    Svein Magnussen;Svein Magnussen;Tore Johnsen

  • The development of memory for own- and other-race faces.

    Gail S. Goodman;Liat Sayfan;Jennifer S. Lee;Marianne Sandhei

  • Memory for a staged criminal event witnessed live and on video.

    Cecilie Ihlebæk;Tonja Løve;Dag Erik Eilertsen;Svein Magnussen

  • 7 – THE PERCEPTION OF BRIGHTNESS AND DARKNESS: RELATIONS TO NEURONAL RECEPTIVE FIELDS

    Adriana Fiorentini;Günter Baumgartner;Svein Magnussen;Peter H. Schiller

  • Relations between episodic memory, suggestibility, theory of mind, and cognitive inhibition in the preschool child

    Annika Melinder;Tor Endestad;Svein Magnussen

  • Interactions among spatial frequency and orientation channels adapted concurrently.

    Mark W. Greenlee;Svein Magnussen;Svein Magnussen

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark W. Greenlee
Mark W. Greenlee University of Regensburg
Annika Melinder
Annika Melinder University of Oslo
Tor Endestad
Tor Endestad University of Oslo
Ivar Reinvang
Ivar Reinvang University of Oslo
Karl Halvor Teigen
Karl Halvor Teigen University of Oslo
Martin A. Safer
Martin A. Safer Catholic University of America
Gail S. Goodman
Gail S. Goodman University of California, Davis
Cesare Cornoldi
Cesare Cornoldi University of Padua
Jerker Rönnberg
Jerker Rönnberg Linköping University
Maria Larsson
Maria Larsson Stockholm University

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