Research Publications

 

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• Thorley, C., Acton, B., Armstrong, J., Ford., S, & Gundry, M (2022). Are estimates of faces’ ages less accurate when they wear sunglasses or face masks and do these disguises make it harder to later recognise the faces when undisguised? Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7:17.

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• Childs, M.C., Jones, A., Thwaites, P., Zdravkovic, S., Thorley, C., Suzuki, A., Shen, R., Ding Q., Burns, E., Xu, H., & Tree, J.J. (2021). Do individual differences in face recognition ability moderate the other ethnicity effect? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47, 893–907.

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• O'Brien, F., & Thorley, C. (2021). Memory of people from missing person posters: The number of posters seen, the number of times they are seen, and the passage of time matter. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 27, 779-795.

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• Thorley, C. (2021). How old was he? Disguises, age, and race impact upon age estimation accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35, 460-472.

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• Thorley, C., Beaton, L., Deguara, P., Jerome, B., Khan, D; & Schopp, K. (2020). Misinformation encountered during a simulated jury deliberation can distort jurors’ memory of a trial and bias their verdicts. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25, 150-164.

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• Marchant, D., Hampson, S., Finnigan, L., Marrin., K, & Thorley C. (2020). The effects of acute moderate and high intensity exercise on memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1716.

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• Romero-Rivas, C., Thorley, C., Skelton, K., & Costa, A. (2019). Foreign accents reduce false recognition rates in the DRM paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 31, 507-521.

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• Lorek, J., Centifanti, L., Lyons, M., & Thorley, C. (2019). The impact of individual differences on jurors’ note taking during trials and recall of trial evidence, and the association between the type of evidence recalled and verdicts. PLoS ONE, 14(2): e0212491

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• Lorek, J., Centifanti, L., Lyons, M., & Thorley, C. (2019). The impact of prior trial experience on mock jurors' note taking during trials and recall of trial evidence, Frontiers in Psychology, 10:47

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• Thorley, C., Almond, L., Gregory, G., McAlonan, V., and McLoughlin, A. (2018). An archival analysis of sexual assault victims’ age estimation accuracy when describing stranger offenders. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 24, 1030-1049.

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• Thorley, C. (2018). Enhancing individual and collaborative eyewitness memory with Category Clustering Recall. Memory, 26, 1128-1139.

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• Thorley, C., & Christiansen, P. (2018). The impact of own and others’ alcohol consumption on social contagion following a collaborative memory task. Memory, 26, 727-740.

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• Thorley, C., & Kumar, D. (2017). Eyewitness susceptibility to co-witness misinformation is influenced by co-witness confidence and own self-confidence. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 23, 342-360.

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• Marion, S.B., & Thorley, C. (2016). A meta-analytic review of collaborative inhibition and postcollaborative memory: Testing the predictions of the retrieval strategy disruption hypothesis. Psychological Bulletin, 142, 1141-1164.

 

• Thorley, C. (2016). Note taking and note reviewing enhance jurors’ recall of trial information. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 655-663

 

• Thorley, C., Dewhurst, S.A., Abel, J.W., & Knott, L.M. (2016). Eyewitness memory: The impact of a negative mood during encoding and/or retrieval upon recall of a non-emotive event. Memory, 24, 838-852

 

• Thorley, C., Baxter, R.E., & Lorek, J. (2016). The impact of note taking style and note availability at retrieval on mock jurors’ recall and recognition of trial information. Memory, 24, 560-74.

 

• Thorley, C. (2015). Blame conformity: Innocent bystanders can be blamed for a crime as a result of misinformation from a young, but not elderly, adult co-witness. PLoS ONE, 10(7): e0134739.

 

• Schnitzspahn, K.M., Thorley, C., Phillips, L., Voight, B., Threadgold, E., Hammond, E.R., Mustafa, B, & Kliegel, M. (2014). Mood impairs time-based prospective memory in young but not older adults: The mediating role of attentional control. Psychology & Aging, 29, 264-270.

 

• Knott, L.M., & Thorley, C. (2014). Mood congruent false memories persist over time. Cognition & Emotion, 23, 903-912.

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• ​​Thorley, C. (2013). The effects of recent sleep duration, sleep quality, and current sleepiness on eyewitness memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 690-695.

 

• Thorley, C. (2013). Memory conformity and suggestibility. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 19, 565-575.

 

• Thorley, C., & Rushton-Woods, J. (2013). Blame conformity: leading eyewitness statements can influence attributions of blame for an accident. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27,​ 291-296.

 

• Dewhurst, S. A., Thorley, C., Hammond, E. R., & Ormerod, T. C. (2011). Convergent, but not divergent, thinking predicts susceptibility to associative memory illusions. Personality & Individual Differences, 51, 73-76.

 

• Dewhurst, S.A., Bould, E., Knott, L.M., & Thorley, C. (2009). The roles of encoding and retrieval processes in associative and categorical memory illusions. Journal of Memory & Language, 60, 154-164.

 

• Thorley, C., & Dewhurst, S.A. (2009). False and veridical collaborative recognition. Memory, 17, 17-25.

 

• Thorley, C., & Dewhurst, S.A. (2007). Collaborative false recall in the DRM procedure: Effects of group size and group pressure. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19, 867-881.

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Conference Presentations

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• Thorley, C. (2018). Costs and Benefits of Collaborative Remembering. 1st Meeting of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASPP), Macquarie University, Sydney.

  • Part of a symposium on Collective Memory

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• Lorek, J., Centifanti, L., Lyons, M., & Thorley, C. (2018). The impact of trial experience on mock jurors' note taking during trials and subsequent recall of evidence. Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), Turku.

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• Thorley, C., Almond, L., Gregory, G., McAlonan, V., and McLoughlin, A (2017). Sexual assault victims' age estimation accuracy when describing stranger offenders. 37th Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL) Annual Congress, Perth.

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• Lorek, J. & Thorley, C. (2017). The effects of jurors’ divided and sustained attention on note taking during trials and memory of trial evidence. Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), Mechelen.

 

• Ahsan, T., Washington, D., Thorley, C., Taylor, P., &  Nathan, R. (2017). The influence of the format of presentation of clinical histories (narrative versus template) on clinicians’ ability to recall risk related information. Royal College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry Annual Conference, Madrid. 

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• Marchant, D., Greenall, J., Ellison, P., & Thorley C. (2016). The Effect of an Acute Bout of Aerobic Exercise on Short-Term Memory. The British Psychological Society's Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology Conference, Cardiff.

  • Winner of the delegate choice prize for best research poster at the conference.

 

• Thorley, C., Bades, J., McCabe, A., & Goodwin, D. (2016). Note taking guidance enhances the volume of trial evidence jurors note down and their subsequent recall of this evidence. Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), Toulouse.

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• Lorek, J., Murphy, A., Windsor, L., & Thorley, C. (2016).The impact of handwriting speed on jurors note taking quality and subsequent recollection of trial evidence. Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), Toulouse.

 

• Thorley, C., Cosgrove, R., Hutton, R. & Sayers, J. (2015).  Note taking and note reviewing enhance jurors' recall of trial evidence. Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), Nuremberg.

 

• Thorley C., Budworth, L., Masters, H., Wayland, A.R., & Su, Q. (2014). Blame conformity: Attributions of blame for a crime can be shifted onto innocent bystanders. Annual Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), St. Petersburg, Russia.

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• Campbell, C., & Thorley, C. (2013). Birds of a feather misremember together: Shared social identities increase memory conformity. British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, University of Exeter.

 

• Thorley, C., & Rushton-Woods, J. (2013). Blame conformity: Leading eyewitness statements can influence attributions of blame for an accident. Association for Psychological Science, 25th Annual Convention, Washington D.C.

 

• Schnitzspahn, K. M., Thorley, C., Phillips, L, & Kliegel, M. (2013). Are we more forgetful when we are happy or sad? The influence of emotion on age-related prospective memory. The 2013 International Neuropsychological Society Mid-Year Meeting, Amsterdam.

 

• Schnitzspahn, K. M., Thorley, C., Phillips, L, & Kliegel, M. (2012). Are we more forgetful when we are happy or sad? The influence of emotion on age-related prospective memory. Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

 

• Thorley, C. (2010). Collaborative prospective memory. Association for Psychological Science, 22nd Annual Convention, Boston.

 

• Thorley, C., and Dewhurst, S. A. (2009). Collaborative false recognition. Association for Psychological Science, 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco.

 

• Thorley, C., and Dewhurst, S. A. (2008). Individual differences in memory conformity. Association for Psychological Science, 20th Annual Convention, Chicago.

 

• Thorley, C., and Dewhurst, S. A. (2007). Memory conformity and suggestibility. European Society for Cognitive Psychology’s XV Conference, Marseille.

 

• Thorley, C., and Dewhurst, S. A. (2007). Memory conformity and suggestibility. British Psychological Society, XXIV Annual Cognitive Section Conference, Aberdeen University.

 

• Thorley, C., and Dewhurst, S. A. (2006). False recall in collaborative groups. Association for Psychological Science, 18th Annual Convention, New York.

 

• Thorley, C., and Dewhurst, S. A. (2006). Effects of collaborative remembering on false recognition: Social contagion or conformity? British Psychological Society, XXIII Annual Cognitive Section Conference, Lancaster University.

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Invited Talks

 

• University of Swansea (November, 2014). Blame conformity.

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• College of Policing: Better Policing Collaborative Research Seminar Series (April, 2014). A Crash Course in Statistical Concepts.

 

• University of Central Lancashire (February, 2014). Blame conformity.

 

• University of Geneva (December, 2013). Investigations into eyewitness memory.

 

• Goldsmiths, University of London (June, 2012). How to incorporate employability skills into psychology teaching and learning.

 

• University of Hull (April, 2012). Are we more forgetful when we are happy or sad? The influence of emotion on age-related prospective memory.

 

• Oxford Brookes University (October, 2010). Collaborative prospective memory.

 

• University of Central Lancashire (December, 2008). Memory conformity and suggestibility.

 

• Liverpool Hope University (October, 2008). Memory conformity and suggestibility.