Rath, H. J., Rocha, B., Smith, A. M., & Smalarz, L. (in press). Does the forensic filler-control method reduce examiner overconfidence? An experimental investigation using mock fingerprint examiners. Behavioral Sciences, in press.
Eerdmans, R. E. & Smalarz, L. (in press). Wrongful conviction disadvantages exonerees in subsequent criminal trials. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, in press.
Heemskerk, A., Smalarz, L., Madon, S., Guyll, M., & Yang, Y. (2025). Mechanisms of self-regulatory decline in accusatorial interrogations. Behavioral Sciences, 15(8), 1125. https://doi.org/10.3390/ bs15081125
Lawrence, M. L., Saiter, E., Eerdmans, R. E., & Smalarz, L. (2024). The Miranda penalty: Inferring guilt from suspects’ silence. Law and Human Behavior, 48(5-6), 368-384. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000587
Smalarz, L. & Wells, G. L. (2024). Recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence. Applied Police Briefings, Summer 2024(1), 5-8. https://appliedpolicebriefings.com/index.php/APB/article/view/4857
Lebensfeld, T. C. & Smalarz, L. (2024). Witnessing-condition information differentially affects evaluations of high- and moderate-confidence eyewitness identifications. Cognition, 250, 105841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105841
Smalarz, L. Eerdmans, R. E., Lawrence, M. L., Kulak, K., & Salerno, J. M. (2023). Counterintuitive race effects in legal and non-legal contexts. Law and Human Behavior, 47(1), 119-136. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000515
Faison, L. Smalarz, L., Madon, S. M., & Clow, K. (2023). The stigma of wrongful conviction differs for White and Black exonerees. Law and Human Behavior, 47(1), 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000522
Salerno, J. M., Kulak, K., Smalarz, L., Lawrence, M. L., Eerdmans, R. E., & Dao, T. (2023). The role of social desirability and establishing non-racist credentials on mock juror decisions about Black defendants. Law and Human Behavior, 47(1), 100-118. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000496
Lebensfeld, T. C. & Smalarz, L. (2022). Cross-examination fails to safeguard against feedback effects on eyewitness testimony. The Wrongful Conviction Law Review, 3(3), 240-269. https://doi.org/10.29173/wclawr80
Wells, G. L., & Smalarz, L. (2022). Lives destroyed by distorted recollections of fluency, attention, view, and confidence: A sin of bias in eyewitness identification. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(4), 461–464. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000087
Smith, A. M., Smalarz, L., Wells, G. L., Lampinen, J. M., & Mackovichova, S. (2022). Fair lineups improve outside observers’ discriminability, not eyewitnesses’ discriminability: Evidence for differential filler-siphoning using empirical data and the WITNESS computer-simulation architecture. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(4), 534-544. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000021
Smalarz, L., Yang, Y., & Wells, G. L. (2021). Eyewitnesses’ free-report verbal confidence statements are diagnostic of accuracy. Law and Human Behavior, 45(2), 138-151. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000444
Smith, A. M., Smalarz, L., & Jalava, S. (2021). Measuring performance from eyewitness identification procedures. In A. Smith, M. Toglia, & J. Lampinen (Eds.), Methods, Measures, and Theories in Eyewitness Identification Tasks. New York: Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003138105-11
Smalarz, L. & Wells, G. L. (2020). Do multiple doses of feedback have cumulative effects on eyewitness confidence? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9(4), 508-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.06.003
Faison, L. & Smalarz, L. (2020). Perceptions of exonerees: A review of the psychological science. The Albany Law Review, 83, 1021-1058. http://www.albanylawreview.org/Pages/home.aspx
Smalarz, L., Douglass, A. B. & Chang, A. (2020). Eyewitness-identification decisions as Brady material: Disclosing information about prior decisions affects evaluations of eyewitnesses. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 26(1), 10-21. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000213
Guyll, M., Yang, Y., Madon, S., Smalarz, L., & Lannin, D. G. (2019). Mobilization and resistance in response to interrogation threat. Law and Human Behavior, 43(4), 307-318. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000337
Smalarz, L., Kornell, N., Vaughn, K. E. & Palmer, M. A. (2019). Identification performance from multiple lineups: Should eyewitnesses who pick fillers be burned? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 221-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.03.001
Yang, Y., Smalarz, L., Moody, S. A., Cabell, J., & Copp, C. (2019). An expected cost model of eyewitness identification. Law and Human Behavior, 43(3), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000331
Smith, A. M., Lampinen, J. M., Wells, G., L., Smalarz, L. & Mackovichova, S. (2019). Deviation from perfect performance measures the diagnostic utility of eyewitness lineups but partial area under the ROC curve does not. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 50-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617698528
Douglass, A. B. & Smalarz, L. (2019). Post-identification feedback to eyewitnesses: Implications for system variable reform. In B. Bornstein & M. Miller (Eds.), Advances in Psychology and Law, Volume 4. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11042-0_4
Smith, A. M., Wells, G. L., Smalarz, L., & Lampinen, J. M. (2018). Increasing the similarity of lineup fillers to the suspect improves the applied value of lineups without improving memory performance: Commentary on Colloff, Wade, and Strange (2016). Psychological Science, 29(9), 1548–1551. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617698528
Smalarz, L., Madon, S., & Turosak, A. (2018). Defendant stereotypicality moderates the effect of confession evidence on judgments of guilt. Law and Human Behavior, 42, 355-368. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000286
Quigley-McBride, A., Smalarz, L. & Wells, G. L. (2018). Eyewitness Testimony. In Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. Ed. D.S. Dunn. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0026
Madon, S., Guyll, M., Yang, Y,. Smalarz, L., Marschall, J., & Lannin, D. G. (2017). Police interrogation elicits a biphasic process of resistance from suspects. Law and Human Behavior, 41, 159-172. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000221
Smalarz, L., Scherr, K. C., & Kassin, S. M. (2016). Miranda at 50: A psychological analysis. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(6), 455–460. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416665097
Smalarz, L., Madon, S. Yang, Y., Guyll, M., & Buck, S. (2016). The perfect match: Do criminal stereotypes bias forensic evidence analysis? Law and Human Behavior, 40, 420-429. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000190
Smalarz, L., Greathouse, S. M., Wells, G. L., & Newirth, K. A. (2016). Psychological science on eyewitness identification and the U.S. Supreme Court: Reconsiderations in light of DNA exonerations and the science of eyewitness identification. In C. Willis-Esqueda, R. Wiener, & B. Bornstein (Eds.), The Witness Stand and Lawrence S. Wrightsman, Jr. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2077-8_3
Wells, G. L., Smith, A. M., & Smalarz, L. (2015). ROC analysis of lineups obscures information that is critical for both theoretical understanding and applied purposes. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4, 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.08.010
Wells, G. L., Smalarz, L., & Smith, A. M. (2015). ROC analysis of lineups does not measure underlying discriminability and has limited value. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4, 324-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.08.008
Wells, G. L., Yang, Y., & Smalarz, L. (2015). Eyewitness identification: Bayesian information gain, base-rate effect equivalency curves, and reasonable suspicion. Law and Human Behavior, 39, 99-122. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000125
Smalarz, L. & Wells, G. L. (2015). Contamination of eyewitness evidence and the mistaken identification problem. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 24(2), 120–124. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721414554394
Smalarz, L. & Wells, G. L. (2015). Eyewitness identification from lineups. In A. Jamieson & A. Moenssens (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470061589.fsa469.pub2
Smalarz, L. & Wells, G. L. (2014). Confirming feedback following a mistaken identification impairs memory for the culprit. Law and Human Behavior, 38, 283-292. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000078
Smalarz, L. & Wells, G. L. (2014). Post-identification feedback to eyewitnesses impairs evaluators’ abilities to discriminate between accurate and mistaken testimony. Law and Human Behavior, 38, 194-202. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000067
Wells, G. L., Wilford, M. M., & Smalarz, L. (2013). The forensic filler-control method: Controlling contextual bias, estimating error rates, and calibrating forensic scientists’ reports of certainty. Journal of Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, 2, 53-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.01.004
Smalarz, L. & Wells., G. L. (2013). Eyewitness certainty as a system variable. In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), Reform of eyewitness identification procedures. Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press. https://doi.org/10.1037/14094-008
Madon, S., Yang, Y., Smalarz, L., Guyll, M., & Scherr, K. C. (2013). How factors present during the immediate interrogation situation produce short-sighted confession decisions. Law and Human Behavior, 37, 60-74. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000011
Smalarz, L. & Wells, G. L. (2012). Eyewitness identification evidence: Scientific advances and the new burden on trial judges. Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, 48, 14-21. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ajacourtreview/385
Wells, G. L., Greathouse, S. M., & Smalarz, L. (2012). Why do motions to suppress suggestive eyewitness identifications fail? In B.L. Cutler (Ed.), Conviction of the Innocent: Lessons from Psychological Research. Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press. https://doi.org/10.1037/13085-008
Wells, G. L., & Smalarz, L. (2011). Eyewitness Testimony. In Oxford Bibliographies in Psychology. Ed. D.S. Dunn. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199828340-0026
Huynh, Q.-L., Devos, T., & Smalarz, L. (2011). Perpetual foreigner in one’s own land: Potential implications for identity and psychological adjustment. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 30, 133-162. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2011.30.2.133