Recruiting PhD Students!
1. is theoretically grounded in cognitive psychology
2. can be applied to real-world problems in the justice system
3. is collaborative, mentoring students at every level to be academic scientists/researcher
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We annually present at, and attend, the following organizations' meetings/research conferences:
American Psychology-Law Society
Southwestern Psychological Association
& A.R.M.A.D.I.L.L.O.
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
International Meetings
2026
Jones, A. R., Carlson, C. A., Lockamyeir, R. F., Allen, Alyssa R. (accepted talk; 2026, March). Match made in error? How filler selection and lineup construction shape eyewitness identification and discriminability. Annual Meeting for the American Psychology—Law Society, Reno, NV.
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).
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). Socia desirability as situationally independent and related to agreeableness. Annual meeting for the Association for Psychological Science, New York, NY.
Regional Meetings
2026
Carlson, C. A., Jones, A. R., Goodsell, C. A., Carlson, M. A., Brand, Z. T., Lockamyeir R. F., & Wooten, A. R. (accepted talk; March, 2026). Fluid features, frozen memories: How naturalistic appearance change undermines eyewitness accuracy across showups and lineups. Annual Meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Frisco, TX.
Allen, A. & Jones, A. R. (accepted; March, 2026). Clothing color in two-perpetrator
crimes may affect eyewitness accuracy and confidence. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Frisco, TX.
Kirby, A. & Jones, A. R. (accepted; March, 2026). Dominant personality persuasion
effect on mock-jury decision making. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Frisco, TX.
Beyer, S. & Jones, A. R. (accepted; March, 2026). Forgotten intentions: Sleep quality/duration as a moderator of the depression–prospective memory errors link. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Frisco, TX.
Flippin, A., Snider, L., Cruz, G., Lopez-Hidalgo, J. & Jones, A. R. (accepted; March, 2026). Success after ACES: What drives individuals to overcome influences of Adverse Childhood Experiences? Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Frisco, TX.
Liverpool, T. & Jones, A. R. (accepted; March, 2026). Turning up to tune in: High intensity rap music and emotion regulation in Neurodivergent Gen. Z. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Frisco, TX.
Snider, L., Liverpool, T., Cox, L., Morgan, C. Beseda, A., Jones, A. R. (accepted workshop; March, 2026). Baby Researcher Bootcamp: Navigating integration and identity development as an emerging scholar. Annual meeting for the Southwestern Psychological Association, Frisco, TX.
2025
Allen, A. & Jones, A. R. (2025, October). Influence of multiple perpetrators on
eyewitness identification. Annual meeting for ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference, El Paso, TX.
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., Carlson, M. A. (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 ffect 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.
President's Excellence in Research Scholarship Award ~$17k (2023-2024), Tarleton State University
Collaborative Early-Stage Research Grant $100k (2026-2027), Texas A&M University System Research Excellence Fund (REF)
Second Place at Tarleton's RIED Symposium 2025, with co-awardee students
Third Place at Tarleton's RIED Symposium 2026, with co-awardee students
Paul Zelheart Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Research 2021, East Texas A&M University
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