Incoming Asst Prof @kennesawstate | eyewitness ID researcher | she/her
Joined November 2020
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20 Nov 2024
Very excited to share a new paper that just got accepted into JARMAC!
We found that the biased-lineup preference effect (the finding that lay ppl rate IDs from biased lineups as more reliable than those from unbiased lineups) is driven by fluency.
š researchgate.net/publicationā¦
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Rebecca C. Ying retweeted
New preprint! w/@TesCharlesworth & @william__brady:
'The Psychology of Algorithmic Bias'
We introduce a psychology-centered framework to specify mechanisms through which human behavior interacts dynamically with AI systems to produce algorithmic bias.
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/rxā¦
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Mar 22
Took 3 trips in the past month and have had the worst luck:
- stranded in a NY blizzard with @ayala_nydia
- stranded in Reno with @katie_cunius because of an Iowa blizzard
- now stranded in ATL because I didnāt realize TSA would take 5 hours..
I am never travelling again ā¤ļø
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Mar 15
Haiku for my labmate, Taylor Tracy, who presented her first-ever AP-LS poster this year:
Opt-out instructions
Might result in info loss
But we found no change
Instead, witnesses
lowered their criterion
for high-conf judgments.
#apls2026
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Mar 15
Very delayed haikus from #apls2026 for my friend @katie_cunius, as is tradition:
When a defendant
Is in an extremist group
schemas sway verdicts
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Mar 12
Excited to be at #apls2026 in Reno, NV!
Hoping everyone will pop by and hear about some of the work I've been doing in the past year.
ALT Poster for American Psychology-Law Society Conference Reno, NV 2026 A Shocking Failure of Source Memory: Repeated-Suspect Procedures Contaminate Memory and Put Innocent Suspects at Risk Rebecca C. Ying, Andrew M. Smith, & John T. Wixted Saturday, March 14, 4:10PM ā 4:22PM Tuscany 6 Showups Conducted Under Field-Conditions Yield Overconfident Choosers and Highly Accurate Rejectors Mitchell L. Eisen & Rebecca C. Ying Saturday, March 14, 4:22PM ā 4:34PM Tuscany 6 Should Eyewitnesses Viewing Lineups be Provided With an Explicit Option to Indicate That They are āNot Sureā? Taylor E. Tracy, Andrew M. Smith, & Rebecca C. Ying Saturday, March 14, 6:30PM Poster Session, Tuscany 1/A
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Jan 22
Very excited to announce that I will be joining the Department of Psychological Science at Kennesaw State University (@kennesawstate) as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026! āŗļø
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Rebecca C. Ying retweeted
10 Dec 2025
Our new paper evaluating the use of a confidence rating scale for perceptual tasks has been published in Royal Society Open Science! Check it out here royalsocietypublishing.org/rā¦
@RSocPublishing
@TaliraKucina
@jamessauer
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I made a Goodreads for academic papers!
(..and blog posts, substacks, lesswrong, etc)
Paper Trails [papertrailshq.com] is something I built because I wanted a place where engaging with research felt fun, beautiful, and personal to you
I hope you give it a try & love it!
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Rebecca C. Ying retweeted
21 Nov 2025
Excited to present in the Artificial Intelligence and Human Memory symposium at 3:45 alongside some really great researchers. Hope yāall can drop by! #psynom2025 @Psychonomic_Soc
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Rebecca C. Ying retweeted
7 Oct 2025
Wrongful convictions in Spain: Systematic analysis of judgments from 1996 to 2022
New article by NuriaĀ SĆ”nchez,Ā GuadalupeĀ Blanco-Velasco,Ā @LindaGeven, @Jaume_Masip_, &Ā Antonio Manzanero
sciencedirect.com/science/arā¦
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Rebecca C. Ying retweeted
29 Jul 2025
šØ New preprint šØ
Why should police video-record lineups?
We videorecorded 1496 witnesses as they completed lineups. We coded the behaviors that these witnesses demonstrated and subjected the resulting data to machine learning analyses.
Link and findings below!
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29 Jul 2025
ā¼ļø Another new preprint ā¼ļø
Here, we find that video recordings of lineup procedures can aid us with diagnosing witness accuracy (over and above confidence and decision time).
This project provides even more evidence that the legal system should mandate video recording lineups.
29 Jul 2025
šØ New preprint šØ
Why should police video-record lineups?
We videorecorded 1496 witnesses as they completed lineups. We coded the behaviors that these witnesses demonstrated and subjected the resulting data to machine learning analyses.
Link and findings below!
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Rebecca C. Ying retweeted
29 Jul 2025
Why are lineup rejections less diagnostic of innocence than suspect identifications are of guilt? Take a look at our preprint for insight on this all-too-common finding in the eyewitness literature.
29 Jul 2025
šØ New preprint available!
In this paper, we look at why lineups better inculpate the guilty than they do exculpate the innocent (the rejection-inferiority effect).
W/ Andrew Smith, Jim Lampinen,
@ayala_nydia, & Ian Dobbins
š researchgate.net/publicationā¦
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29 Jul 2025
šØ New preprint available!
In this paper, we look at why lineups better inculpate the guilty than they do exculpate the innocent (the rejection-inferiority effect).
W/ Andrew Smith, Jim Lampinen,
@ayala_nydia, & Ian Dobbins
š researchgate.net/publicationā¦
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29 Jul 2025
Here, we examined DPSDT and UVSDT models & found that they were able to account for residual asymmetry (& improved model fit relative to the EVSDT model). These models suggest that the visual recognition system is better at detecting target presence than target absence.
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29 Jul 2025
These findings contradict recent inferences that in the context of eyewitness lineups, target variability is less than or equal to lure variability and brings models of eyewitness memory in line with longstanding findings from the basic recognition literature!
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