Alyssa R. Jones, PhD

Curriculum Vitae (updated Dec. 2025)

Alyssa R. Jones, PhD

Assistant Professor, Tenure-track (3rd year)

Director, Jones Applied Cognition Lab (JACL; Howell 401)

SONA Administrator, Tarleton Research Participation Enrollment System

Department of Psychological Sciences, Tarleton State University, Stephenville/Fort Worth, TX

Junior Associate Editor, Psychology, Crime & Law

ajones1@tarleton.edu

alyssarayjones@gmail.com

Research Interests

I am interested in face processing mechanisms associated with recognition memory in applied areas of cognitive psychology research, specifically eyewitness memory and identification. My primary research focus is the impact of system variables on eyewitness identification accuracy, especially methods of lineup composition. Examples of lineup composition factors I investigate filler-similarity, filler-selection techniques, methods of creating lineups for suspects with distinctive features, as well as the utilization of eyewitness descriptions during construction. I also aim to apply my knowledge of face processing mechanisms and overall theories of cognition to pursue investigations of prospective memory processes, with the goal of adding to the literature about the real-world problem that is low rates of recognizing and accurate reporting for missing and wanted persons.

Publication Statistics

ResearchGate Interest Score: 212.3

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Education

2021

PhD in Educational Psychology, Cognitive/Experimental Track; Texas A&M University-Commerce

Research Advisor: Curt Carlson, PhD

Doctoral Dissertation Title: The effect of filler selection methods on lineup fairness and eyewitness identification

Oral Comprehensive Doctoral Exam Topic: Investigating the impact of lineup composition and other system variables on eyewitness identification performance

2018

MS in General Psychology; Texas A&M University-Commerce

Research Advisor: Curt Carlson, PhD

Master’s Thesis Title: Not all fair lineups are created equally: The effect of lineup composition on eyewitness identification

2015

BA in Psychology Cum Laude

Texas Wesleyan University 

Advisor: John Hall, EdD

Post-Doctoral Higher Education Employment

Assistant Professor, North Carolina Wesleyan University, August 2021-May 2023

Assistant Professor, Tarleton State University, August 2023-Present

External Grant Research Experience

Co-Principal Investigator, submitted 2025, revising for resubmission by 2026

National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant: “Collaborative Research: Integrating the Diagnostic Feature Detection Theory of Eyewitness Identification with Face Processing Theory to Improve Police Procedures,” Co-PIs: Curt Carlson (East Texas A&M) and co-PI Maria Carlson (East Texas A&M). Amount requested: $1.3 million.

Principal Investigator, submitted 2025 (unfunded)

Gorilla/CloudResearch Grant: “They said he had a black eye": An investigation of co-witness misinformation on eyewitness identification, with co-PI: Robert F. Lockamyeir (SUNY Oneonta). Amount requested: $600.

Graduate Research Assistant, 2019-2022

National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Grant: “Eyewitness identification: A systematic investigation of lineup composition and fairness”, PI: Curt Carlson (East Texas A&M), with co-PI Maria Carlson (East Texas A&M). Amount awarded for 4-year grant: $344,514.

Graduate Student Researcher, submitted 2018 (unfunded)

Cognitive Women in Science Grant, Graduate Women in Science Fellowship: “Eyewitness identification based on faulty assumption that all fair lineups are equal?” Co-PIs: Laura Mickes (U. of Bristol) and Curt Carlson (East Texas A&M). Amount requested: $5,100.

Tarleton State University Intramural Grants

Principal Investigator, 2024-2025

President’s Excellence in Research Scholarship (PERS) Grant: “Quality vs. Quantity: Filler effects on eyewitness identification,” Co-PI: Thomas Faulkenberry, with Undergraduate Research Assistants: Anika Flippin and Baylee Lawdermilk. Amount awarded: $16,281.64. Manuscript under review at Applied Cognitive Psychology [2025 IF = 1.8].

Other Funding Awards

Texas A&M University-Commerce University Intramural Grants:

Graduate travel support funding, awarded spring 2017

Funded Summer Thesis Fellowship, awarded summer 2017

Graduate travel support funding, awarded spring 2018

Funded 3-year Graduate Assistantship, awarded fall 2016 – fall 2019

North Carolina Wesleyan University Intramural Grants:

Professional development funding, awarded spring 2022

Manuscripts Under Review

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Goodsell, C. A., Carlson, M. A., Brand, Z. T., Lockamyeir,

R. F., & Wooten, A. R. (under review). Naturalistic appearance change dramatically harms eyewitness identification accuracy and reduces the value of confidence and response time as reflectors of accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology. [2025 IF = 1.8]

Peer-reviewed Publications

2025

Brooks, T. R., Balzarini, R., Erickson, W. B., Hinojosa, V., Jones, A. R., Macchione, A., Maxwell, N. P., Reysen, S., Rivers, A. S., Shelton, J., Stocks, E. (accepted). Lone Star Nationalism: Texan Identity, Negative Attitudes about Globalization, and Concern about Illegal Immigration Predict Texit Support. Journal of Globalization Studies. [2025 IF = 1.8]  

Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Goodsell, C. A., Jones, A. R.,Wooten, A. R., & Brand, Z. T. (2025). Comparing the strength of the confidence-accuracy versus response time-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification. Scientific Reports,15(1), 11064. [IF = 4.996] https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-96224-y

2024

Carlson, C. A., Pleasant, W. E., Carlson, M. A., Jones, A. R. (2024). Effects of internal versus external distinctive facial features on eyewitness identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38(1), e4186. [2025 IF = 1.8]  https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4186

2023

Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Wooten, A. R., Jones, A. R., Carlson, M. A., & Hemby, J. A. (2023). A stronger memory for the perpetrator may attenuate the effects of identification procedure on eyewitness accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37, 419-432. [2025 IF = 1.8] https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4045

Lockamyeir, R. F., Curt A., Carlson, Wooten, A. R., Hemby, J. A., & Jones, A. R. (2023). Keep it simple: Concise instructions may help jurors devalue eyewitness courtroom confidence when evaluating suspect guilt. Psychology, Crime, and Law. 1-24. [2024 IF = 1.5] https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316x.2023.2166507

2022

Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Jones, A. R., & Hemby, J. A. (2022). How potential jurors evaluate eyewitness confidence and decision time across identification procedures and for different eyewitness decisions. Psychology, Crime, and Law. [IF = 1.5] https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2038156

2021 

Carlson, C. A., Hemby, J.A., Wooten, A. R., Jones, A. R., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Dias, J. L., & Whittington, J. E. (2021). Testing encoding specificity and the Diagnostic Feature-Detection theory of eyewitness identification, with implications for showups, lineups, and partially disguised perpetrators. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6-14. [IF 2024 = 3.1] https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00276-3

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Wooten, A. R., Carlson, M. A., & Hemby, J. A. (2021). One perpetrator, two perpetrators: The effect of multiple perpetrators on eyewitness identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology. [2025 IF = 1.8] https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3853

2020

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Hemby, J. A., Carlson, M. A., & Wooten, A. R. (2020). “All I remember is the black eye”: A distinctive feature harms eyewitness identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology. [2025 IF = 1.8]  https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3714

Whittington, J. E., Carlson, C. A., Carlson, M. A., Weatherford, D. R., Krueger, L., & Jones, A. R. (2020). Asking an eyewitness to predict their later lineup performance could harm the confidence-accuracy relationship. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 119-131. [2025 IF = 1.8] https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3599

Wooten, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Jones, A. R., Dias, J. L., & Hemby, J. A. (2020). The number of fillers may not matter as long as they all match the description: The effect of simultaneous lineup size on eyewitness identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 590-604. [2025 IF = 1.8]  https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3644

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Carlson, M. A., & Weatherford, D. R. (2020). The effect of viewing distance on empirical discriminability and the confidence-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology. [2025 IF = 1.8] https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3683

2019

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Whittington, J. E., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson M. A., & Wooten, A. R. (2019). Lineup fairness: propitious heterogeneity and the diagnostic feature-detection hypothesis. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4(1), 2. [IF = 3.1] https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-019-0172-5

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Goodsell, C. A., Carlson, M. A., Weatherford, D. R., Whittington, J. E., & Lockamyeir, R. F. (2019). A method for increasing empirical discriminability and eliminating top-row preference in photo arrays. Applied Cognitive Psychology. [2025 IF = 1.8] https://doi.org/101002/acp.3551

2016

Carlson C. A., Young, D. F., Weatherford, D. R., Carlson, M. A., Bednarz, J. E., & Jones, A. R. (2016). The influence of perpetrator exposure time and weapon presence/timing on eyewitness confidence and accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology. [2025 IF = 1.8] https://doi.org/101002/acp.3275

Book Reviews

Carlson, C. A., & Jones, A. R. (2017). An abbreviated Festschrift: Expert analysis of David Marr’s early works, review of Computational Theories and their Implementation in the Brain: The Legacy of  David Marr, by L. M. Vaina & R. E. Passingham (Eds.). PsycCRITIQUES, 62(30).

Research Supervision Experience

Principal Investigator, Jones Applied Cognition Lab, Tarleton State University (fall 2023 – present), PhD student: Alyssa Allen, Total number of current research assistants:13 (graduate students; 5 undergraduate students)

Thesis Committee Chair, Tarleton State University, Gabriela Bobadilla (fall 2024 proposal, fall 2025 final defense), Kira Goulette (fall 2025 proposal, spring 2026 final defense)

Principal Investigator, Jones Applied Cognition Lab, North Carolina Wesleyan University (spring 2022 – spring 2023): Number of research assistants: 5 undergraduate students

Coordinator/Graduate Assistant Researcher, Carlson CriMe Lab, Texas A&M University-Commerce/East Texas A&M University (fall 2016 – spring 2021), Number of research assistants managed: approximately 5-10 per semester

Mentor, Honor’s College, Tarleton State University, Alexis McGaughey (fall 2023)

Mentor, Honor’s College, Tarleton State University, Caitlyn Morgan (spring 2024)

Mentor, Honor’s Thesis Program, North Carolina Wesleyan University, Jacob Aldridge (spring 2022)

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor (Tarleton State University):

PSY 4350 – Senior Capstone in Cognitive-experimental Psychology

Fall 2025 (1 section)

PSYC 3305 – Human Cognitive Processes

Fall 2023 (1 section), Summer 2025 (1 section)

PSYC 3435 – Principles of Research for Behavioral Sciences

Fall 2023 (2 sections), Spring 2024 (2 sections); Fall 2024 (2 sections); Spring 2025 (1 section)

PSYC 2317 – Statistical Methods in Psychology

Spring 2025 (2 sections), Summer 2025 (1 section), Fall 2025 (1 section)

PSYC 5321 – Evolutionary Psychology

Spring 2023 (1 section)

PSYC 5315 – Physiological Psychology

Fall 2024 (1 section)

PSY 4390 – Special Topics: History of Science and Philosophy

Summer 2025 (1 cross -listed section)

PSY 4388 – Research Experience

Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025

Assistant Professor (North Carolina Wesleyan University):

PSY 111 – Introduction to Psychology

Fall 2021 (2 sections), Fall 2022 (1 section); Spring 2022 (2 sections), Spring 2023 (1 section); Summer 2021 (1 section)

PSY 321 – Information Processing, Cognition, and Memory

Fall 2021 (2 sections), Fall 2022 (2 sections); Spring 2022 (1 section)

PSY 319 – Physiological Psychology

Spring 2022 (2 sections), Spring 2023 (2 sections)

PSY 410 – Senior Seminar in Psychology on Advanced Memory

Spring 2023 (1 section)

Independent Study – Information Processing, Cognition, and Memory

Spring 2023

Instructor of Record (Texas A&M University-Commerce):

PSY 2301 – Introduction to Psychology

Fall 2016

PSY 316 – Abnormal Psychology

Spring 2016

PSY 2301 – Introduction to Psychology

Fall 2016

PSY 305 – Experimental Psychology

Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020; Fall 2020

PSY 339 – Forensic Psychology

Fall 2019

PSY 320 – Cognitive Psychology

Spring 2021

Graduate Teaching Assistant (Texas A&M University-Commerce):

PSY 302 – Psychological Statistics Lab

Fall 2015, Fall 2016; Summer 2016, Spring 2017; Summer 2018

PSY 305 – Experimental Psychology Lab

Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020; Fall 2017, Fall 2018

PSY 202 – Introduction to Psychological Statistics Lab

Summer 2018

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (Texas Wesleyan University):

Special Topics in Psychology – Horse and Human Psychology

Spring 2015

Scholarly Awards

2nd Place, Research Award (co-awardees: Anika Flippin, Lillian Snider, Grace Cruz, Jennifer Lopez, & Kylie Barrows), Research, Innovation, Economic Development (RIED) Symposium, Tarleton State University, spring 2025

Paul Zelhart Award Recipient, Outstanding Graduate Student Research, Texas A&M University-Commerce, spring 2021

Departmental Award Recipient, Outstanding Graduate Assistant Researcher in Psychology Recipient, Texas A&M University-Commerce, spring 2017

Departmental Award Recipient, Outstanding Student in Psychology, Texas Wesleyan University, spring 2015

Service

Department Level:

Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Tarleton State University (spring 2025)

Thesis Committee Member, Tarleton State University, Beau Purdom (spring 2025 proposal, final defense TBD), Tyler Maddux (fall 2025 proposal)

College Level:

Running an Active Research Lab Workshop Author, Tarleton State University (in development)

University Level:

SONA Administrator, Division of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development Research Participant Enrollment System, Tarleton State University, (fall 2025-present)

Scholarly-Field Level:

Junior Associate Editor, Psychology, Crime & Law (Oct. 2025 – present)

Peer-reviewer:

Journal of Psychological Inquiry (April 2025)

Behavioral Sciences (May 2025)

Legal and Criminological Psychology (July-Sept 2025)

Applied Cognitive Psychology (November 2025)

Conference Proposal Peer-Reviewer:

Southwestern Psychological Association (fall 2024)

Community/National Level:

Referenced in policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence, Scientific Review Paper on Guidelines for Eyewitness Identification Procedures, American Psychology – Law Society, Division 41 of the American Psychological Association: Wells, G. L., Kovera, M. B., Douglass, A. B., Brewer, N., Meissner, C. A., & Wixted, J. T. (2020). Policy and procedure recommendations for the collection and preservation of eyewitness identification evidence. Law and Human Behavior, 44(1), 3–36. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000359

Previous Institutional Service:

Writing Program Committee Member, Standing committee, North Carolina Wesleyan University (fall 2022-spring 2023)

Psi Chi Co-coordinator, Academic Honors Society Chapter, North Carolina Wesleyan University (spring 2022-spring 2023)

Pi Gamma Mu Co-coordinator, Academic Honors Society Chapter, North Carolina Wesleyan University (spring 2022-spring 2023)

Lighting of Wesleyan Planning Committee Member, North Carolina Wesleyan University (fall 2022)

Graduate Student Peer Reviewer, American Psychological Association APA convention AP-LS Division 41 (2018)

Graduate Student Representative, Academic Dishonesty Hearing Panel, Texas A&M University-Commerce (2017)

Documentary Actor, Discovery Channel | 93 Metros, Filmed at Texas A&M University-Commerce (2017)

Graduate Student Conference Volunteer, (fall 2015-spring 2016), American Psychology – Law Society, Annual Meeting

Graduate Student Peer Reviewer (2016), American Psychological Association, APA convention AP-LS Division 41

Psychology Tutor (spring 2015, Academic Success Center, Texas Wesleyan University

Vice-President of Psi Chi (spring 2015), Academic Honors Society Chapter, Texas Wesleyan University

Academic Advisor for psychology undergraduate students (fall 2022-spring 2023), North Carolina Wesleyan University, Number of advisees: 10

Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)/Institutional Research Experience:

Director of QEP (North Carolina University, fall 2021 – spring 2022)

Organized following workshops (North Carolina Wesleyan University):

“Teaching faculty how to enhance our students’ abilities to utilize evidence in writing” presented by Dr. Chad Ross (spring 2022)

“Teaching faculty how to enhance students’ abilities to utilize rhetorical flexibility in writing” presented by Dr. Margaret Love (spring 2022)

“Teaching faculty how to enhance students’ abilities to utilize metacognitive reflection in writing” presented by Dr. Ami Thompson (spring 2022)

“The use of evidence in writing in humanities” presented by Dr. Shane Thompson and Dr. Eean Grimshaw (fall 2022)

“The use of evidence in writing in social sciences” presented by Dr. Kaitlin Pericak (fall 2022)

Attendee of following conferences for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC):

Institute on Quality Enhancement and Accreditation (2022, July) Orlando, Florida; Annual meeting for SACSCOC (2022, December) Atlanta, Georgia

Professional Development:

RIED Grant Writing Workshop, Tarleton State University (spring 2024)

Provost’s National Institute of Health R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) Grant Writing Workshop, Tarleton State University (fall 2024)

Mentoring Graduate Students on Research Workshop, Tarleton State University (spring 2025)

Active Listening & Effective Communication Course, Coursera (spring 2025)

Professional Affiliations

Psychonomic Society

Southwestern Psychological Association

American Psychology – Law Society

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC)

Psi Chi

Pi Gamma Mu

Tau Delta

Conference Presentations

International Meetings

2025

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Goodsell, C. A., Carlson, M. A., Brand, Z. T., Lockamyeir, R. F., & Wooten, A. R. (2025, November). Fluid features, frozen memories: How naturalistic appearance change undermines eyewitness accuracy across showups and lineups. Annual Meeting for the Psychonomic Society, Denver, CO.

2024

Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Goodsell, C. A., Jones, A. R., Wooten, A. R., & Brand, Z. T. (2024, November). Comparing the strength of the confidence-accuracy versus response time-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification. Annual Meeting for the Psychonomic Society, New York, NY.

2022

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., & Jones, A. R. (2022, March). An investigation of the weapon focus effect as a function of viewing distance. American Psychology – Law Society annual conference, Denver, CO.

2021

Jones, A. R., Carlson C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., & Hemby, J. A. (2021, November). Examining lineup composition effects on eyewitness identification by varying filler similarity. Annual Meeting for the Psychonomic Society, virtual.

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Wooten, A. R., Carlson, M. A., & Hemby, J. A. (2021, November). One perpetrator, two perpetrators: The effect of multiple perpetrators on eyewitness identification. Annual Meeting for the Psychonomic Society, (virtual).

2020

Lockamyeir, R. F., Wooten, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Carlson, M. A., Jones, A. R., Dias, J. L., & Hemby, J. A. (2020, March). The number of fillers may not matter as long as they all match the description: The effect of simultaneous lineup size on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for the American Psychology – Law Society, New Orleans, LA.

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Hemby, J. A., Carlson, M. A., & Wooten, A. R. (November 2020). “All I remember is the black eye”: A distinctive facial feature harms eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for Psychonomic Society, Austin, TX (virtual).

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Wooten, A. R., Carlson, M. A., & Hemby, J. A. (November 2020). The effect of multiple perpetrators and the similarity among them on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for Psychonomic Society, Austin, TX (virtual).

Carlson, C. A., Hemby, J. A., Wooten, A. R., Jones, A. R., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Dias, J. L., & Whittington, J. E. (November 2020). Features or fillers? Testing the Diagnostic Feature-Detection hypothesis by removing external facial features in showups and lineups. Annual meeting for Psychonomic Society, Austin, TX (virtual).

2019

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Whittington, J. E., Carlson, M. A., & Wooten, A. R. (2019, March). Not all fair lineups are created equally: The effect of lineup composition on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for the American Psychology – Law Society, Portland, OR.

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., & Carlson, M. A. (2019, March). The effect of viewing distance on empirical discriminability and the confidence-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for the American Psychology – Law Society, Portland, OR.

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., & Carlson, M. A. (2019, November). The effect of viewing distance on empirical discriminability and the confidence-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Wooten, A. R., Carlson, C.A., Lockamyeir, R. F., & Jones, A. R. (2019, November). What if a witness was acquainted with a suspect prior to a crime? An investigation of unconscious transference by manipulating prior familiarity. Annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, Montreal, QC, Canada. 

2018

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Whittington, J. E., & Carlson, M. A. (2018, March). All fair lineups are not created equally: The effect of lineup composition on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for American Psychology – Law Society, Memphis, TN.

Carlson, C. A., & Jones, A. R. (2018, March). A systematic approach to studying lineup fairness by manipulating facial feature variance. Annual meeting for American Psychology – Law Society, Memphis, TN.

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Goodsell, C., & Weatherford, D. (2018, March). Suspect position in a simultaneous lineup affects eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for American Psychology – Law Society, Memphis, TN.

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Whittington, J. E., Carlson, M. A., & Wooten, A. R. (2018, September). Not all fair lineups are created equally: The effect of lineup composition on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Whittington, J. E., Lockamyeir, R. F., & Carlson, M. A. (2018, November). Lineup fairness: Testing the concept of propitious heterogeneity and the diagnostic feature-detection hypothesis. Annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.

2017

Carlson, C. A., Carlson, M. A., Weatherford, D. R., Dias, J. L., Young, D. F., Bednarz, J. E., & Jones, A. R. (2017, March). The impact of concealment and crime duration on the weapon focus effect. Annual meeting for the American Psychology – Law Society, Seattle, WA.

2016

Carlson, C., Jones, A., Goodsell, C., Carlson, M., Weatherford, D., & Bednarz, J. (2016, November). Suspect position in a simultaneous lineup affects eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

2015

Jones A. R., Esker, L., Carlini, P. M., & Hand, M. (2015, May). Social desirability as situationally independent and related to agreeableness. Annual meeting for the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.

Regional Meetings

2025

Allen, A. & Jones, A. R. (2025, October). Influence of multiple perpetrators on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference. Reno, AZ (spring 2026).

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Bobadilla, G., Goulette, K., & Viola, A. (2025, March). Effects of filler-selection methods on lineup fairness and eyewitness identification. Annual Meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Society, Little Rock, AR.

Bobadilla, G. & Jones, A. R. (2025, March). An investigation of distinctive featural justifications and numeric response time on jury decision-making. Annual Meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Society, Little Rock, AR.

Goulette, K. & Jones, A. R., McGaughey, A. (2025, March). Effects of online stress induction and co-witness discussion on eyewitness memory. Annual Meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Society, Little Rock, AR.

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Goodsell, C. A., Carlson, M. A., Brand, Z. T., Lockamyeir, R. F., & Wooten, A. R. (March, 2025). Fluid features, frozen memories: How naturalistic appearance change undermines eyewitness accuracy across showups and lineups. Annual Meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Society, Little Rock, AR.

Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Goodsell, C. A., Jones, A. R., Wooten, A. R., & Brand, Z. T. (2025, March). Comparing the strength of the confidence-accuracy versus response time-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification. Annual Meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Society, Little Rock, AR.

Brooks, T. R., Balzarini, R., Erickson, W. B., Hinojosa, V., Jones, A. R., Macchione, A., Maxwell, N. P., Reysen, S., Rivers, A. S., Shelton, J., Stocks, E. (2025, March). Lone Star Nationalism: Texan Identity, Negative Attitudes about Globalization, and Concern about Illegal Immigration Predict Texit Support. Annual Meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Society, Little Rock, AR.

Flippin, A., Snider, L., Cruz, G., Lopez, J., Barrows, Kylie, & Jones, A. R. (2025, March). Success After ACES: What drives individuals to overcome influences from Adverse Childhood Experiences? Annual Meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Society, Little Rock, AR.

Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Goodsell, C. A., Jones, A. R., Wooten, A. R., & Brand, Z. T. (2025, April). Comparing the strength of the confidence-accuracy versus response time-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification. Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual conference, Mobile, AL.

2024

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Bobadilla, G., Goulette, K., & Viola, A. (2024, October). Effects of filler-selection methods on lineup fairness and eyewitness identification. Annual Meeting for ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference, College Station, TX.

McGaughey, A. & Jones, A. R. (2024, March). Investigating an online stress induction method on eyewitness memory. Annual Meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Society, San Antonio, TX.

2022

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., & Lockamyeir, R. F. (2022, March). Filler selection effects on lineup fairness and eyewitness identification. Southeastern Psychological Association annual conference, Hilton Head, SC.

Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Jones, A. R., & Hemby, J. A. (2022, April). How potential jurors evaluate eyewitness confidence and decision time statements across identification procedures and for different eyewitness decisions. Southwestern Psychological Association annual conference, Baton Rouge, LA.

2021

Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Jones, A. R., & Hemby, J. A. (2021, September). How potential jurors evaluate eyewitness confidence and decision time statements across identification procedures and for different eyewitness decisions. ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference (virtual).

2020

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., & Hemby, J. A. (2020, October). Examining lineup composition effects on eyewitness identification by varying filler similarity. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference (virtual).

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Wooten, A. R., Carlson, M. A., & Hemby, J. A. (2020, October). The effect of multiple perpetrators and the similarity among them on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference (virtual).

Carlson, C. A., Hemby, J. A., Wooten, A. R., Jones, A. R., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Dias, J. L., & Whittington, J. E. (2020, October). Testing the Diagnostic Feature-Detection hypothesis by removing external facial features in showups and lineups. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference (virtual).

2019

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Hemby, J. A., Carlson, M. A., Lockamyeir, R. F.,  Wooten, A. R. (2019, October). Eyewitness performance is harmed by the presence of a distinctive feature on the perpetrator, regardless of replication or removal of the feature in the lineup. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO, San Antonio, TX.

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., & Carlson, M. A. (2019, October). The effect of viewing distance on empirical discriminability and the confidence-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO, San Antonio, TX.

Wooten, A. R. Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Jones, A. R., Carlson, M. A., Diaz, J., & Hemby, J. A. (2019, October). The number of fillers may not matter as long as they all match the description: The effect of simultaneous lineup size on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO, San Antonio, TX.

2018

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Whittington, J. E., & Carlson, M. A. (2018, April). Not all fair lineups are created equally: The effect of lineup composition on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for Southwestern Psychological Association, Houston, TX. 

Carlson, C. A., & Jones, A. R. (2018, April). A systematic approach to studying lineup fairness by manipulating facial feature variance. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Houston, TX.

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., & Jones, A. R. (2018, April). The effect of viewing distance and weapon presence on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Houston, TX.

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Whittington, J. E., Carlson, M. A., & Wooten, A. R. (2018, September). Not all fair lineups are created equally: The effect of lineup composition on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO, Houston, TX.

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Whittington, J. E., Lockamyeir, R. F., & Carlson, M. A. (2018, September). Lineup fairness: Testing the concept of propitious heterogeneity and the diagnostic feature-detection hypothesis. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO, Houston, TX.

Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., & Carlson, M. A. (2018, September). The effect of viewing distance and weapon presence. on eyewitness identification.

2017

Carlson, C. A., Carlson, M., Weatherford, D. R., Dias, J. G., Young, D., Bednarz, J., & Jones, A. R. (2017, April). The impact of concealment and crime duration on the weapon focus effect. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Whittington, J. E., & Carlson, M. A. (2017, August). All fair lineups are not created equally: The effect of lineup composition on eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO, College Station, TX.

2016

Jones A. R., Hand, M. Carlini, P. M., & Montez, L. (2016, April). Social desirability as situationally independent and related to agreeableness. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Dallas, TX.

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Goodsell, C., Carlson, M., & Bednarz, J. E. (2016, April). Suspect position in a simultaneous lineup affects eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Dallas, TX.

Young, D., Carlson, C. A., Carlson, M., Weatherford, D., Bednarz, J. E., Jones, A. R., & Mayberry, J. L. (2016, April). Eyewitness identification: Perpetrator visibility, weapon presence, and the confidence-accuracy relationship.  Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Dallas, TX.

Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Goodsell, C., Carlson, M., Weatherford, D., & Bednarz, J. (2016, October). Suspect position in a simultaneous lineup affects eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO, El Paso, TX.

Invited Presentations/Scholarly Presentations

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Carlson, M. A., Bobadilla, G., Goulette, K., Viola, A., Lawdermilk, B., Flippin, A., Faulkenberry, T. (2025, March). Quality vs. Quantity: Filler selection effects on eyewitness identification (ID). RIED Symposium, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX.

Bobadilla, G. & Jones, A. R. (2025, March). An investigation of distinctive featural justifications and numeric response time on jury decision-making. RIED Symposium, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX.

Goulette, K., Jones, A. R., & McGaughey, A. (2025, March). Effects of online stress induction and co-witness discussion on eyewitness memory. RIED Symposium, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX.

Flippin, A., Snider, L., Cruz, G., Lopez, J., Barrows, Kylie, & Jones, A. R. (2025, March). Success After ACES: What drives individuals to overcome influences from Adverse Childhood Experiences? RIED Symposium, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX.

Kirby, A. & Jones, A. R. (2025, March). Alpha personality persuasion may affect mock- jury. RIED Symposium, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX.

Flippin, A., Snider, L., Cruz, G., Lopez, J., Barrows, Kylie, & Jones, A. R. (2025, April). Success After ACES: What drives individuals to overcome influences from Adverse Childhood Experiences? Research Rodeo, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX.

Jones, A. R. (2022, Spring). Eyewitness Misidentification. Fourth Monday Talk Series, North Carolina Wesleyan University, Rocky Mount, NC. 

Jones, A. R. (2020, Spring). The criminal with the dragon tattoo: Lineup composition and eyewitness identification, Brown Series of Psychology Research Talks, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, TX. 

Jones, A. R. (2019, November). Investigating the impact of system variables on eyewitness identification, performance, and policy. Psi Chi Maximize your Major Presentation, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, TX.

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Whittington, J. E., & Carlson, M. A. (2018, April). Not all fair lineups are created equally: The effect of lineup composition on eyewitness identification. Texas A&M University-Commerce Annual Research Symposium, Commerce, TX.

Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Whittington, J. E., & Carlson, M. A. (2017, April). All fair lineups are not created equally: The effect of lineup composition on eyewitness identification. Texas A&M University-Commerce Annual Research Symposium, Commerce, TX.

Jones, A. R. (2016, February). The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth about Graduate School. Psi Chi Maximize your Major Presentation, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, TX.

Jones, A. R., & Carlini, P.M. (2015). Graduate School Application Process. Maximize your Major Presentation, Texas Wesleyan University Psi Chi, Fort Worth, TX.

Jones, A. R., Collins, M., & Day, D. (2015, April). 6 Steps to a New Enlightenment. Annual University College Day, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, TX.

Jones, A. R., Carlini, P. M., & Hand, M. (2015, April). Social desirability as situationally independent and related to agreeableness. Annual University College Day, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, TX.

Professional References:

Curt Carlson, PhD

Professor

Department of Psychology

East Texas A&M University

Commerce, TX 75429

(903) 468 – 8723

curt.carlson@etamu.edu

Logan Yelderman, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Psychological Sciences

Tarleton State University

Stephenville, TX 76401

254-968-9092

lyelderman@tarleton.edu

Benton Pierce, PhD

Professor

6906 Sayle St.

Greenville, TX 75402

(903) 422 – 1770

benton.pierce@tamuc.edu

Robert Lockamyeir, PhD

Lecturer

Department of Psychology

Finger Lakes Community College

Canandaigua, NY 14424

(585) 402 – 2220

Robert.lockamyeir@flcc.edu