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Overview

Thomas D. Lyon is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans several fields within psychology and social sciences, with a focus on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, gender studies, and developmental and educational psychology.

Their body of work includes investigations into deception detection and forensic psychology, memory processes and influences, child abuse and trauma, sexual assault and victimization studies, child and animal learning development, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry and sexual offending, as well as criminal justice and corrections analysis.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research include Hayden Henderson, Breanne E. Wylie, Angela D. Evans, Shanna Williams, and Jodi A. Quas.

Thomas D. Lyon's research has been published primarily in journals such as Child Maltreatment, SSRN Electronic Journal, Child Abuse & Neglect, Applied Cognitive Psychology, and Psychology Public Policy and Law.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Thomas D. Lyon include:

  • Understanding expert testimony on child sexual abuse denial after New Jersey v. J.L.G.: Ground truth, disclosure suspicion bias, and disclosure substantiation bias (2020, Behavioral Sciences & the Law)
  • Imprecision About Body Mechanics When Child Witnesses Are Questioned About Sexual Abuse (2021, Journal of Interpersonal Violence)
  • Leveraging Linguistic Context in Dyadic Interactions to Improve Automatic Speech Recognition for Children (2020, Computer Speech & Language)
  • Children's Signaling of Incomprehension: The Diagnosticity of Practice Questions During Interview Instructions (2020, Child Maltreatment)
  • Young Children's Ability to Describe Intermediate Clothing Placement (2020, Child Maltreatment)

Best Publications

  • Report of the APSAC task force on attachment therapy, reactive attachment disorder, and attachment problems.

    Mark Chaffin;Rochelle Hanson;Benjamin E. Saunders;Todd Nichols

  • Filial Dependency and Recantation of Child Sexual Abuse Allegations

    Lindsay C. Malloy;Thomas D. Lyon;Jodi A. Quas

  • Report of the ATSA Task Force on Children With Sexual Behavior Problems

    Mark Chaffin;Lucy Berliner;Richard Block;Toni Cavanagh Johnson

  • 4. Interviewing children in and out of court: Current research and practice implications.

    Karen J. Saywitz;Gail S. Goodman;Thomas D. Lyon

  • The Science of Child Sexual Abuse

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

  • Coaching, Truth Induction, and Young Maltreated Children’s False Allegations and False Denials

    Thomas D. Lyon;Lindsay C. Malloy;Jodi A. Quas;Victoria A. Talwar

  • Why child maltreatment researchers should include children's disability status in their maltreatment studies.

    Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett;Thomas Lyon;Greg Taliaferro;Liza Little

  • False Denials: Overcoming Methodological Biases in Abuse Disclosure Research

    Thomas D. Lyon

  • Truth induction in young maltreated children: The effects of oath-taking and reassurance on true and false disclosures

    Thomas D. Lyon;Joyce S. Dorado

  • 5. Child witnesses and the oath: Empirical evidence.

    Thomas D. Lyon

  • Relevance Ratio: Evaluating the Probative Value of Expert Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases

    Thomas D. Lyon;Jonathan J. Koehler

  • 35. Interviewing children.

    Thomas D. Lyon

  • How attorneys question children about the dynamics of sexual abuse and disclosure in criminal trials.

    Stacia N. Stolzenberg;Thomas D. Lyon

  • Maltreated children's understanding of and emotional reactions to dependency court involvement

    Jodi A. Quas;Allison R. Wallin;Briana Horwitz;Elizabeth Davis

  • Young maltreated children's competence to take the oath

    Thomas D. Lyon;Karen J. Saywitz

  • Development of Temporal-Reconstructive Abilities: Development of Temporal Reconstruction

    William J. Friedman;Thomas D. Lyon

  • Eliciting maltreated and nonmaltreated children's transgression disclosures: narrative practice rapport building and a putative confession.

    Thomas D. Lyon;Lindsay Wandrey;Elizabeth C. Ahern;Robyn Licht

  • Question Types, Responsiveness and Self‐contradictions when Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys Question Alleged Victims of Child Sexual Abuse

    Samantha Andrews;Michael Ernest Lamb;Thomas D Lyon

  • Social and Cognitive Factors Associated With Children's Secret-Keeping for a Parent

    Heidi M. Gordon;Thomas D. Lyon;Kang Lee

  • MALTREATED CHILDREN’S ABILITY TO ESTIMATE TEMPORAL LOCATION AND NUMEROSITY OF PLACEMENT CHANGES AND COURT VISITS

    Lindsay Wandrey;Thomas D. Lyon;Jodi A. Quas;William J. Friedman

  • New Wave in Children’s Suggestibility Research: A Critique

    Thomas D. Lyon

  • Young children's emerging ability to make false statements

    Elizabeth C. Ahern;Thomas D. Lyon;Jodi A. Quas

Frequent Co-Authors

Jodi A. Quas
Jodi A. Quas University of California, Irvine
Karen J. Saywitz
Karen J. Saywitz University of California, Los Angeles
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
Gail S. Goodman
Gail S. Goodman University of California, Davis
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto
Frank W. Putnam
Frank W. Putnam University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lucy Berliner
Lucy Berliner University of Washington
Jennifer J. Freyd
Jennifer J. Freyd University of Oregon
Kathy Pezdek
Kathy Pezdek Claremont Graduate University
Victoria Talwar
Victoria Talwar McGill University

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