Meredith Allison is a professor of psychology at Elon University. She is the coordinator of Elon's Criminal Justice Studies minor.  

Meredith is interested in the interface of psychology and the law, with a particular interest in the ways in which social psychology can inform legal issues. She has conducted several studies on perceptions of alibis, eyewitnesses' memories for events, people's perceptions of eyewitness accuracy and confidence, and stereotypes of older adult witnesses, offenders, and victims. She has also collaborated with colleagues in the criminal justice area on studies of people's knowledge of laws and accompanying punishments. Finally, she is interested in interpersonal communication and has studied the use of gestures in dialogues. 

She is a keen mentor of undergraduate research and has mentored 25 students in research at Elon. This work has resulted in 15 peer-reviewed publications in academic journals and 19 presentations at academic conferences with Elon students as co-authors. Meredith was the director of Elon's Undergraduate Research program from 2017-2022. Elon received the Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments from the Council on Undergraduate Research in 2022.

Meredith earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She earned her master's and Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.