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Research
My students and I conduct research on the general topics of human learning, memory, and perception.  Currently we are studying various factors that affect face perception, identification accuracy, and eyewitness memory.  We are also investigating how people interpret scientific evidence and statistical results.  Our lab is located in room 107 of the DePaul science building.

Recent presentations and publications from our lab.  Undergraduate psychology students are in bold type:
  • Garry, A., Thompson, B., & Taylor, J. (2019, May).  Base rate neglect in the interpretation of statistical results.  To be presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
  • Thompson, W. B. (in press).  Eyewitness memory: A field study of viewing angle, pose, and eyewitness age.  Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice.
  • Thompson, W. B. (2019).  Alpha is not the false alarm rate: An activity to dispel a common statistical misconception.  Teaching of Psychology, 46, 72-79.
  • Thompson, W. B., Lauher, M. L., & Moody, T. R. (2017).  Comparing the defendant to images of the culprit: Interpreting results of mock witness filler-control tests.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31, 632-643.
  • Monteleone, R., Austin, L., & Thompson, B. (2017, May). Sleepiness and eyewitness memory.  Presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston.
  • Lauher, M., Moody, T., Thompson, B., & Rosado, A. (2017, May). Defendant-culprit matching: Fillers reduce incorrect identifications.  Presented at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston.
  • ​Thompson, W. B., Dunkelberger, N., Vescio, S., & Elling, C. (2016).  Does a judicial warning improve defendant-culprit matching?  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 757-767.