Melissa J. Beers's research while affiliated with Ohio University and other places
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Publications (4)
Four experiments were conducted to test possible limits on the previously demonstrated point-of-view bias in videotaped confessions.
Study 1 showed that deliberation did not eliminate the bias. Study 2 showed that forewarning did not eliminate the bias. Study
3 showed that directing greater attention to the content of the confession did not elimina...
It is noted that in criminal trials, fact finders that include judges and jurors make decisions based on the evaluation of the evidence presented. The kind of evidence that possibly has the greatest impact on the decision making of these trial fact finders is a defendant's prior admission of guilt. The type of interrogation pressure used to induce...
In two studies, we found that perceivers with different observational goals—learning an actor's task, forming an impression of her, or no specific goal—picked up qualitatively different information while viewing the actor's ongoing behavior. Because we used a between-subjects design and analysis, our results rule out a demand-characteristics interp...
Examines memory for consistent and inconsistent action-related information in 209 undergraduate high self-monitors and low self-monitors. Employing a paradigm used in studies of person memory, the authors found that high (relative to low) self-monitors demonstrated enhanced recall for the expectancy-inconsistent, but not the expectancy-consistent,...
Citations
... Low self-monitors generally act the same way no matter what group of people they are with in a social situation (Snyder, 1974). According to Beers, Lassiter, and Flannery (1997), high self-monitors adapt to different social situations so they are able to present the most positive impression. These people also tend to act like different people in different situations depending on what groups of people are in the social situation and the social context. ...
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... For future research we offer some suggestions. First, participants could be shown the trial in a video format to determine if there are any differences in the way the trial is presented (Lassiter, Geers, Munhall, Handley, & Beers, 2001). Moreover, other independent variables such as eye witnesses or DNA samples could be utilized to see what differences there are between the new additions, and whether or not biases would still persist despite concrete evidence (Magalhães, Dinis-Oliveira, Silva, Corte-Real, & Nuno Vieira, 2015). ...
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... In adults, action at breakpoints is remembered more accurately than action at non-breakpoints (Newtson & Engquist, 1976;Schwan & Garsoffky, 2004), and action sequences that are interrupted at breakpoints are remembered more accurately than sequences interrupted at non-breakpoints (Boltz, 1992). Observers whose segmentation agrees with others' segmentation have better memory for action details (Zacks, Speer, Vettel, & Jacoby, 2006), and the way observers approach the task of segmentation affects their memory for action (Lassiter, Geers, & Apple, 2002;Lassiter, Geers, Apple, & Beers, 2000;Ratcliff & Lassiter, 2007). ...
... Researchers have attempted to attenuate bias in responses to video by teaching viewers about such biases. One study gave participants a basic warning about the camera perspective bias ("your judgments could be affected by the angle of the camera"); this warning had no effect, and participants viewing suspect-only footage were still significantly more likely to conclude the suspect was guilty than those who saw both officer and suspect (Lassiter, et al., 2002). Lassiter, et al. posited that effective instructions would need to inform jurors of their potential for bias as well as its direction of influence (see also Wilson and Brekke, 1994). ...
