Publications

2024

Kleider-Offutt, H., Stevens, B. B., Mickes, L., & Boogert, S. (in press). Application of artificial intelligence to eyewitness identification. Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications.

Mickes, L. & Wixted, J. T. (in press).  Eyewitness memory. In M. J. Kahana & A. D. Wagner (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Human Memory.  Oxford University Press.​

2023

Mickes, L., Morgan, D. P., Fuentes Grandón, D. A., Boogert, S., & Kazanina, N. (2023). Illustrations of interactions needed when investigating sleep using a type of AM-PM PM-AM design. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30(6), 2106-2115. doi: 10.3758/s13423-023-02248-8.

Mickes, L., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Chen, X., & Boogert, S. (2023). pyWitness 1.0: A Python eyewitness identification analysis toolkit. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02108-2

2022

Holdstock, J. S., Dalton, P., May, K. A., Boogert, S., & Mickes, L. (2022). Lineup identification in young and older witnesses: does describing the criminal help or hinder? Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 7, 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00399-1

Wixted, J. T., & Mickes, L. (2022). Eyewitness memory is reliable, but the criminal justice system is not. Memoryhttps://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1974485

2021

Goshen-Gottstein, Y., Levi, A., & Mickes, L. (2021). Signal-detection theory separates the chaff of bias from the wheat of memory: Illuminating the triviality of high-confidence judgments. Neuropsychologia, 108116. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108116

Levi, A., Mickes, L., Goshen-Gottstein, Y. (2021). The new hypothesis of everyday amnesia: An effect of criterion placement, not memory. Neuropsychologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108114

Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L., Brewin, C. R., & Andrews, B. (2021). Doing right by the eyewitness evidence: a response to Berkowitz et al. Memory (Hove, England), 1–2.

Wixted, J. T., Vul, E., Mickes, L., & Wilson, B. M. (2021). Eyewitness Identification Is a Visual Search Task. Annual Review of Vision Science, 7, 519–541. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-100119-124537

2020

Akan, M., Robinson, M. M., Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T., & Benjamin, A. S. (2020). The effect of lineup size on eyewitness identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

Brewin, C. R., Andrews, B., & Mickes, L. (2020). Regaining Consensus on the Reliability of Memory. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

2019

Morgan D. P., Tamminen J., Seale-Carlisle T.M., & Mickes, L. (2019). The impact of sleep on eyewitness identifications. Royal Society Open Science. Registered report.

Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Colloff, M. F., Flowe, H. D., Wells, W., Wixted, J. T., & Mickes, L. (2019). Confidence and response time as indicators of eyewitness identification accuracy in the lab and in the real world. Journal of Research in Memory and Cognition.

Starns, J. J., Cataldo, A.M., Rotello, C. M., Annis, J., Aschenbrenner, A., Bröder, A., Cox, G., Criss, A., Curl, R. A., Dobbins, I. G., Dunn, J., Enam, T., Evans, N. J., Farrell, S., Fraundorf, S. H., Gronlund, S. D., Heathcote, A., Heck, A. D. W., Hicks, J. L., Huff, M. J., Kellen, D., Key, K. N., Kilic, A., Klauer, K. C., Kraemer, K. R., Leite, F. P., Lloyd, M. E., Malejka, S., Mason, A., McAdoo, R. M., McDonough, I. M., Michael, R. B., Mickes, L., Mizrak, E., Morgan, D. P., Mueller, S. T., Osth, A., Reynolds, A., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Singmann, H., Sloane, J. F., Smith, A. M., Tillman, G., van Ravenzwaaij, D., Weidemann, C. T., Wells, G. L., White, C. N., Wilson, J. (2019). Assessing theoretical conclusions with blinded inference to investigate a potential inference crisis. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Sciences.

Seale-Carlisle, T. M., Wetmore, S. A., Flowe, H. D., & Mickes, L. (2019). Designing police lineups to maximize memory performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

2018

Wixted, J. T., Vul, E., Mickes, L., & Wilson, B. M. (2018). Models of Lineup Memory. Cognitive Psychology, 105, 81-114.

Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L., & Fisher, R. (2018). In the DNA Exoneration Cases, Eyewitness Memory was Not the Problem: A reply to Berkowitz and Frenda (2018) and Wade, Nash and Lindsay (2018). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 343-345.

Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L., & Fisher, R. (2018). Rethinking the Reliability of Eyewitness Memory. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 324-335.

Wixted, J. T., & Mickes, L. (2018). Theoretical vs. empirical discriminability: The application of ROC methods to eyewitness identification. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0093-8

Toftness, A. R., Carpenter, S. K., Lauber, S., & Mickes, L. (2018). The Limited Effects of Prequestions on Learning from Authentic Lecture Videos. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7, 370-378.

Semmler, C., Dunn, J. Mickes, L., & Wixted, J. T. (2018). The Role of Estimator Variables in Eyewitness Identification. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, doi: 10.1037/xap0000157.

Wilson, B. M., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., & Mickes, L. (2017). The effects of verbal descriptions on performance in lineups and showups. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Paper

2017

Mickes, L., Clark, S. E., & Gronlund, S. D. (2017). Distilling the Confidence-Accuracy Message: A Comment on Wixted and Wells (2017). Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 18. Paper

Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L., Wetmore, S. A., Gronlund, S. D., & Neuschatz, J. S. (in press). ROC analysis in theory and practice. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 

Mickes, L. & Dalton, P. (2017). A case for functional-cognitive cross-talk. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Mickes, L. & Gronlund, S. D. (2017). Eyewitness Identification. J. H. Byrne (Ed.) Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference 2E, Volume Cognitive Psychology of Memory. Elsevier. Link

2016

Mickes, L. (2016). Bearing witness: Why eyewitness IDs can be more reliable than you think. Policing Insight. Link.

Seale-Carlisle, T. M.* & Mickes, L. (2016). US lineups outperform UK lineups. Royal Society Open Science. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160300  Listen to the pubcast!

Mickes, L. (2016). US police lineups are better at catching criminals than UK ones. The Conversation. Link.

Mickes, L. (2016). The effects of verbal descriptions on eyewitness memory: Implications for the real-world. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 5, 270-276Paper

Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L., Dunn, J., Clark, S. E., & Wells, W. (2016). Relationship between confidence and accuracy for eyewitness identifications made from simultaneous and sequential police lineups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 304-309. Paper

Carpenter, S. K., Mickes, L. Rahman, S., & Fernandez, C. (2016). The effect of instructor fluency on students’ perceptions of instructors, confidence in learning, and actual learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

2015

Clark, S. E., Benjamin, A. S., Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L., & Gronlund, S. D. (2015). Eyewitness Identification and the Accuracy of the Criminal Justice System. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2, 175-186. Paper

Wixted, J. T., & Mickes, L. (2015). Evaluating Eyewitness Identification Procedures: ROC Analysis and its Misconceptions. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4, 318-323. Paper

Wixted, J. T., & Mickes, L. (2015). ROC Analysis Measures Objective Discriminability for any Eyewitness Identification Procedure. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4, 329-334.

Wilson, B. M., Mickes, L., Stolarz-Fantino, S., Evrard, M., & Fantino, E. (2015). Increased false-memory susceptibility following mindfulness meditation. Psychological Science. Paper

Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L., Clark, S., Gronlund, S. & Roediger, H. (2015). Initial eyewitness confidence reliably predicts eyewitness identification accuracy. American Psychologist, 70, 515-526. Paper

Mickes, L. (2015). Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis and Confidence-Accuracy Characteristic Analysis in Investigations of System Variables and Estimator Variables that Affect Eyewitness Memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4, 93-102. Paper

Gronlund, S. D., Mickes. L., Wixted, J. T., & Clark, S. E. (2015). Conducting an eyewitness lineup: How the research got it wrong. B. H. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and MotivationChapter

Mickes, L. & Wixted, J. T. (2015). On the applied implications of the “Verbal Overshadowing Effect”. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10, 400-403. Paper

2014

Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L., Clark, S. E., Gronlund, S. D., & Roediger, H. L. (2014). The Changing Story of Eyewitness Confidence and the Validity of Identification. Research in Brief, The Police Chief, 81, 14–15. Link

Mickes, L., Moreland, M. B., Clark, S. E., & Wixted, J. T. (2014). Missing the information needed to perform ROC analysis? Then compute d’, not the diagnosticity ratio. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 3, 58-62. Paper

Harris, C. R., Pashler, H. E., & Mickes, L. (2014). Elastic Analysis Procedures–An Incurable (but Preventable) Problem in the Fertility Effect Literature: Comment on Gildersleeve, Haselton, & Fales (2013). Psychological Bulletin, 140, 1260-1265. Paper

Wixted, J. T. & Mickes, L. (2014). A signal-detection-based diagnostic-feature-detection model of eyewitness identification. Psychological Review, 121, 262-276. Paper

Walker, D. E., Bajic, D., Mickes, L., Kwak, J., & Rickard, T.C. (2014). Specificity of children’s arithmetic learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 122, 62-74

Harris, C. R. & Mickes, L. (2014). Women can keep the vote: Hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle do not impact political preferences. Psychological Science, 25, 1147-1149

Wixted, J. T., Gronlund, S. D., & Mickes, L. (2014). Policy Regarding the Sequential Lineup is not Informed by Probative Value but is Informed by ROC Analysis. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 17-18

Gronlund, S. D., Wixted, J. T., & Mickes, L. (2014). Evaluating eyewitness identification procedures using ROC analysis. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 3-10. Paper

2013

Harris, C. R., Chabot, A., & Mickes, L. (2013). Shifts in methodology and theory in menstrual cycle research on attraction. Sex Roles, 69, 525-535. Paper

Walker, D. E., Mickes, L., Bajic, D., Nailon, R. & Rickard, T. (2013). A comparison of training methods for the development of arithmetic fluency in children. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2, 25-32. Paper

Mickes, L., Darby, R., Hwe, V., Bajic, D., Warker, J., Harris, C. R., & Christenfeld, N. J. S. (2013). Major memory for microblogs. Memory & Cognition, 41, 481-489. Paper

Mickes, L., Seale-Carlisle, T. M., & Wixted, J. T. (2013). Rethinking familiarity: Know judgments in free recall. Journal of Memory and Language, 68, 333-349. Paper

Wixted, J. T. & Mickes, L. (2013). On the relationship between fMRI and theories of cognition: The arrow points in both directions. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 104-107

Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T., Jacobson, M., Peavy, G., Goldstein, J. L., & Corey-Bloom, J. (2013). Difficulty Modifying a Sustained Motor Response in Prodromal Huntington’s Disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. iFirst, 1-6. Paper

2012

Mickes, L., Flowe, H. D., & Wixted, J. T. (2012). Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis of Eyewitness Memory: Comparing the Diagnostic Accuracy of Simultaneous vs. Sequential Lineups. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 18, 361-376. Paper

Wixted, J. T. & Mickes, L. (2012). The field of eyewitness memory should abandon probative value and embrace Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 275-278. Paper

Jang, Y., Mickes, L., & Wixted, J. T. (2012). Three tests, three corrections: A Comment on Koen & Yonelinas (2010). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 513-523

Ingram, K. M., Mickes, L., & Wixted, J. T. (2012). Recollection can be weak and familiarity can be strong. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38, 325-339. Paper

2011

Mickes, L., Walker, D. E., Parris, J. L., Mankoff, R., & Christenfeld, N. (2011). Who’s funny: Gender stereotypes, humor production, and memory bias. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19, 108-112. Paper

Mickes, L., Hwe, V., Wais, P. E., & Wixted, J. T. (2011). Strong memories are hard to scale. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 239-257. Paper

2010

Wixted, J. T., Mickes, L., & Squire, L. R. (2010). Measuring recollection and familiarity in the medial temporal lobe. Hippocampus, 20, 1195-1205.

Wixted, J. T., & Mickes, L. (2010). A continuous dual-process model of remember/know judgments. Psychological Review, 117, 1025-1054.

Mickes, L., Jacobson, M., Peavy, G., Wixted, J. T., Lessig, S., Goldstein, J. L., & Corey-Bloom, J. (2010). A comparison of the utility of two brief screening measures for identifying cognitive impairment in Huntington’s disease. Movement Disorders, 25, 2229-2233

Wixted, J. T., & Mickes, L. (2010). Useful Scientific Theories are Useful: A Reply to Rouder, Pratte and Morey (2010). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 436-442

Mickes, L., Johnson, E. M., & Wixted, J. T. (2010). Continuous recollection vs. unitized familiarity in associative recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 843-863

pre-2010

Mickes, L., Wais, P. E., & Wixted, J. T. (2009). Recollection is a continuous process: Implications for dual process theories of recognition memory. Psychological Science, 20, 509-515

Wais, P., Mickes, L., & Wixted, J. T. (2008). Remember/know judgments probe degrees of recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 400-405. 

Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T., Shapiro, A., & Scarff, M. (2008). The effects of pregnancy on memory: Recall is worse but recognition is not. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 31, 754-761

Eisen, M. L., Oustinayaka, M., Kistorian, R., Morgan, D. Y., & Mickes, L. (2008). The effect of question format on resistance to misleading post event information and self-report of events occurring during hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56, 198-213.

Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T., & Wais, P. (2007). A direct test of the unequal variance signal detection model of recognition memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 858-865. 

Cook, I. A., Bookheimer, S. Y., Mickes, L., Leuchter, A. F., & Kumar, A. (2007). Aging and brain activation with working memory tasks: An fMRI study of connectivity. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22, 332-342

Mickes, L., Wixted, J. T., Fennema-Notestine, C., Thal, L., Galasko, D., Bondi, M., & Salmon, D. P. (2007). Progressive impairment on neuropsychological tasks in a longitudinal study of preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychology, 21, 696-705.

Cook, I. A., Leuchter, A. F., Morgan, M. L., Dunkin, J. J., Witte, E., David, S., Mickes, L., O’Hara, R., Simon, S., Lufkin, R., Abrams, M., & Rosenberg, S. (2004). Longitudinal Progression of Subclinical Structural Brain Disease in Normal Aging. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 12, 190-200.

Cook, I. A., Leuchter, A. F., Morgan, M. L., Witte, E., David, S., Lufkin, R., Babaie, A., Dunkin, J. J., O’Hara, R., Simon, S., Lightner, A., Thomas, S., Broumandi, D., Badjatia, N., Mickes, L., Mody, R., Arroyo, S., Zheng, Z., Abrams, M., & Rosenberg-Thompson, S. (2002). Cognitive and Physiological Correlates of Subclinical Structural Brain Disease in Elderly Normal Controls. Archives of Neurology, 59, 1612-1620. 

Eisen, M. L., Morgan, D. Y., & Mickes, L. (2002). Individual differences in eyewitness memory and suggestibility: Examining relations between acquiescence, attention and resistance to misleading information. Personality and Individual Differences, 33, 553-571.