Qualifications
Research Interests
Publications
Media Expertise

Dr Carolyn Semmler

Telephone	+61 8 8313 4628
Position	Lecturer
Email	carolyn.semmler@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 3770
Building	Hughes Building
Floor/Room	5 07
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Psychology

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Qualifications

B.Psyc (Hons), PhD (Flinders University)

Research Interests

Psychology and law, applied decision making, eyewitness identification, face recognition, jury instructions.

Publications

Semmler, C. Brewer, N., & Douglass, A.B. (2011). Jurors believe eyewitnesses. In B.L. Cutler (Ed.), Conviction of the Innocent: Lessons from Psychological Research. New York: APA Press.

Semmler, C., & Brewer, N. (2010). Eyewitness memory. In J. Brown & E. Campbell (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of forensic psychology. (pp. 49-57). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Brewer, N., Weber, N., & Semmler, C. (2005). Eyewitness identification. In N. Brewer & K.D. Williams (Eds.), Psychology and law: Contributions from psychological science. New York: Guilford.

Lindsay, R.C.L., Semmler, C., Weber, N., Brewer, N., & Lindsay, M.L. (2008). How variations in distance affect eyewitness reports and identification accuracy. Law and Human Behavior, 32, 164-176.

Semmler, C. & Brewer, N. (2006). Postidentification feedback effects on face recognition confidence: Evidence for metacognitive influences. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 895-916.

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Law, crime and justice, Psychology and psychiatry
Expertise	eyewitness, memory, identification, jurors, police, judges, facial recognition, jury instructions, medical decision making, treatment decisions and persuasion in medical contexts

Entry last updated: Sunday, 5 Feb 2012

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