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Education:
M.A. 2004 Ball State University – Muncie, Indiana
Cognitive and Social Processes
B.A. 1999 Roger Williams University - Bristol, Rhode Island
Major: Psychology Minor: Human Biology
1996 Syracuse University – Syracuse, New York
No degree received Major: Undeclared
Areas of Interest:
1. Eyewitness memory and identification procedures.
2. Facial processing.
3. Legal authoritarianism and juror decision-making.
Teaching & Professional Experience:
2007 Assistant Instructor, Statistical Methods, University of Texas
at El Paso, El Paso TX
2006 – 2007 Assistant Instructor, Social Psychology, University of Texas
at El Paso, El Paso TX
2006 – 2007 Eyewitness Evidence Educator, El Paso Police Department
– Crimes Against Persons Unit, El Paso, TX
2005 – 2006 Assistant Instructor, Introduction to Psychology, University
of Texas at El Paso, El Paso TX
2005 Attendee, Summer Institute in Social Psychology –
Judgment & Decision-Making, Ann Arbor, MI.
2004 – 2005 Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of
Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
2004 to present – Research Assistant –Eyewitness Identification Research
Laboratory under the direction of Roy Malpass, Ph.D., University
of Texas at El Paso, El Paso TX
2002 to 2004 - Research Assistant –Processing conversational utterances through
grant from National Science Foundation under the direction of Thomas
Holtgraves, Ph.D., Ball State University, Muncie IN
Projects Under Review/In Progress:
Ross, S. J. "Evaluating the ‘suggestiveness’ of showups: Going beyond the
'lack of protection' aspect."
Ross, S. J. “Toward creating a ‘better’ measure of legal authoritarianism: A factor
analysis of 4 current measures.”
Ross, S. J. & Morera, O. F., & Hosch, H. M. "Determining the factor structure of the
Revised Legal Attitudes Questionnaire."
Ross. S. J. “A re-examination of the authoritarianism-verdict
association: Is the
reliability of legal authoritarianism measures influencing the strength of
the association?”
Ross, S. J. “Examining the role of language of report on the factor structure of the
Revised Legal Attitudes Questionnaire.”
Ross, S. J. & Tafoya, M. R. “Are jurors influenced by the
subliminal presentation of
emotionally-valenced words?”
Malpass, R. S., Ross, S. J., Topp, L. D., & Susa, K. J. “Developing a face domain
with known suspect-filler similarities.”
Publications:
Ross, S. J., & Malpass, R. S. (under review). Field studies of eyewitness identification:
A review of past field evaluations and directions for future research. Law and Human Behavior.
Ross, S. J., & Malpass, R. S. (in press). Moving Forward: Response to “Studying Eyewitness
Identifications in the Field”. Law and Human Behavior.
Holtgraves, T. M., Ross, S. J., Weywadt, C.R., & Han, T. L. (2007). Perceiving Artificial
Social Agents. Computers in Human Behavior, 23(5),
2163-2174.
Pickel, K. L., Ross, S. J., & Truelove, R. S. (2006).
Overcoming weapon focus. Applied
Cognitive Psychology, 20, 871-893.
Malpass, R. S., Zimmerman, L. A, Meissner, C. A., Ross, S. J.,
Rigoni, M. E., Topp, L. D.,
Pruss, N., Tredoux, C. T., & Leyva, J. M. (2005). Eyewitness
memory and
identification. The San Antonio Defender, 7(1), 2-13.
Conference Presentations:
Ross, S. J., Culhane, S. E., & Morera, O. F. (2008, March). Confirmatory factor analyses of the
Legal Attitudes Questionnaire: Assessing validity within Anglo and Hispanic samples. Paper
to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, Jacksonville, FL.
Ross, S. J., & Malpass, R. S. (2008, March). Improved methodological standards for field evaluations
of eyewitness identification procedures. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the
American Psychology-Law Society, Jacksonville, FL.
Ross, S. J., & Pickel, K. L. (2007, July). Evaluating the ‘suggestiveness’ of showups: Going
beyond the “lack of protection” aspect. Paper presented at the 3rd International Congress
of Psychology and Law, Adelaide, AUS.
Ross, S. J., Tafoya, M. R., & Hosch, H. M. (2007, July). The effects of distraction and priming
on juror attitudes and judgments in a civil case. Paper presented at the 3rd International
Congress of Psychology and Law, Adelaide, AUS.
Ross, S. J., & Malpass, R. S. (2007, March). An evaluation of the field studies on eyewitness
identification procedures: What do we know and what can we learn? Paper to be
presented at the "Off the witness stand: Using psychology in the practice of justice"
conference, New York, NY.
Ross, S. J., & Morera, O. F. (2007, March). Determining the factor structure of the
Revised Legal Attitudes Questionnaire. Poster to be presented at the "Off the
witness stand: Using psychology in the practice of justice" conference, New York, NY.
Maclin, O. H., Malpass, R. S., & Ross, S. J. (2006, March). Towards an Ecological
Approach to Examine the Diagnosticity of Sequential and Simultaneous
Lineup Procedures. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Psychology-Law Society, St. Petersburg, FL.
Pickel, K. L, Ross, S. J., & Truelove, R. S. (2006, March). Can eyewitnesses overcome
the weapon focus effect?: A test of the automatic capture hypothesis. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, St.
Petersburg, FL.
Ross, S. J. & Malpass, R. S. (2006, March). Scale validation is
not forever: An evaluation
of legal authoritarianism measures within and across cultures. Paper presented
at the annual meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society,
St. Petersburg, FL.
Ross, S. J. & Malpass, R. S. (2006, March). The
authoritarianism-verdict association
post-Narby et al.": A meta-analytic review. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, St. Petersburg,
FL.
Tafoya, M. R., Leyva, J. M., Ross, S. J., & Hosch, H. M. (2006,
March). Does the
subliminal presentation of emotionally-valenced words during a multi-media
closing argument influence juror's judgments? Poster presented at the annual
meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, St. Petersburg, FL.
Ross, S. J. (2005, March). What is legal authoritarianism?: Reliability and convergent validity
tests on all the legal authoritarianism measures. Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, La Jolla, CA.
Ross, S. J., Weywadt, C. R., Davidson, J. E., & Holtgraves, T. M. (2004, May).
Memory for illocutionary force. Poster presented at the annual meeting
of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.
Weywadt, C. R., Ross, S. J., & Holtgraves, T. M. (2004, May). On-line speech act comprehension.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society,
Chicago, IL.
Byle, K. A., Ross, S. J., Weywadt, C. R., & Holtgraves, T. M. (2004, May). The production and
perception of implicit performatives. Poster presented at the annual meeting of
the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.
Ross, S. J., Pickel, K. L., & Truelove, R.S., (2004, April). Can eyewitnesses overcome the
weapon focus effect? In C. Krause (Moderator), Higher-order cognition. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association,
Chicago, IL.
Ross, S. J., Weywadt, C. R., Carr, F. M., & Holtgraves, T., M. (2003, May). Perceiving
artificial social agents. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American
Psychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Reina, J. M., Eason, H. A., Ross, S. J., Palombo, C. A., Giardiano, D. T., Bertuca, F., Dean, J. J.
Noonan, M. C., Roy, A. D., Niedzinski, J. A., & Berman, G. L. (1999, April). The
effects of word type manipulation on accuracy of free recall. In G. L. Berman &
M. P. Toglia (Chairs), Applied psychological research: The influence of cognitive
and social factors in accurate retention and mock-juror decision making. Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.
Professional Affiliations:
American Psychological Association American Psychology-Law Society
Association for Psychological Science Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition