Research

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Featured Publications

Growns, B., Dunn, J.D., Mattijssen, J.A.T., Quigley-McBride, A. & Towler, A. (2022). Match me if you can: evidence for a domain-general visual comparison ability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-02044-2 [Download]

Growns, B., Dunn, J.D., Helm, R., Towler, A., & Kukucka, J. (2022). The low prevalence effect in fingerprint comparison amongst forensic science trainees and novices. PLOS One, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272338 [Download]

Publications

Growns, B., Kukucka, J., & Helm, R.K. (2023). The Post Office Scandal in the United Kingdom: mental health and social experiences of wrongfully convicted and wrongfully accused individuals. Legal and Criminological Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12247

Growns, B., Towler, A., & Martire, K.A. (2023). The novel object-matching test (NOM Test): a psychometric measure of visual comparison ability. Behavior Research Methods, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02069-6

Helm, R.K., Growns, B., & Wilson-Kovacs, D. (2023). Digital evidence in defence practice: prevalence, challenges, and expertise. International Journal of Evidence and Proof. https://doi.org/10.1177/13657127231171620

Growns, B. & Kukucka, J. (2021). The prevalence effect in fingerprint identification: match and non-match base-rates impact misses and false alarms. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3800 [Download]

Growns, B., Mattijssen, J.A.T., Salerno, J., Schweitzer, N., Cole, S., & Martire, K.A. (2022). Finding the perfect match: Fingerprint expertise facilitates statistical learning and visual comparison decision-making. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000422 [Download]

Growns, B., Towler, A., Dunn, J.D., Salerno, J., Schweitzer, N. & Dror, I. (2022). Statistical feature training improves novice and expert fingerprint comparison performance. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00413-6 [Download]

Helm, R.K & Growns, B. (2022). Prevalence estimates as priors: juror characteristics, perceived base rates, and verdicts in cases reliant on complainant and defendant testimony. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3978

Ritchie, K.L, Cartledge, C., Growns, B., Yan, A., Wang, Y., Guo, K., Kramer, R.S.S., Edmond, G., Martire, K.A., Roque, M.S. & White, D. (2021). Public attitudes towards the use of automatic face recognition technology in criminal justice systems around the world. PLoS ONE, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258241

Growns, B. & Martire, K.A. (2020). Forensic feature-comparison expertise: statistical learning facilitates visual comparison performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(3), 493-506. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000266 [Download]

Growns, B. & Martire, K.A. (2020). Human factors in forensic science: the cognitive mechanisms that underlie forensic feature-comparison expertise. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2, 148-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2020.05.001 [Download]

Growns, B., Siegelman, N. & Martire, K.A. (2020). The multi-faceted nature of visual statistical learning: individual differences in learning conditional and distributional regularities across time and space. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 1291-1299. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01781-0 [Download]

Growns, B. & Mattijssen, E.J.A.T. (2020). Distributional statistical learning: how and how well can it be measured? Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1-7. https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci20/papers/0516/0516.pdf [Download]

Martire, K.A., Growns, B., Bali, A.S., Summersby, S., & Younan, M. (2020). Limited but not lazy: a quantitative secondary analysis of evidence quality by those who hold implausible beliefs. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5(65), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00264-z

Chin, J., Growns, B., & Mellor, D. (2019). Improving expert evidence: The role of open science and transparency. Ottawa Law Review, 50(2), 1-48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3345225

Martire, K.A., Growns, B., & Navarro, D.J. (2018). What do the experts know? Bias, precision, and forensic handwriting expertise. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(6), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1448-3

Growns, B., Kinner, S.A., Conroy, E., Baldry, E., & Larney, S. (2017). A systematic review of supported accommodation programs for people released from custody. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62(8), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X17714108 [Download]

Edmond, G., Towler, A., Growns, B., Ribeiro, G., Found, B., White, D., Ballantyne, K, Searston, R.A., Thompson, M.B., Tangen, J.M., Kemp, R.I. & Martire, K.A. (2017). Thinking forensics: Cognitive science for forensic practitioners. Science & Justice, 57(2), 144-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2016.11.005