Rachel Zajac
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Child and forensic psychologist and researcher
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Rachel Zajac's Degrees
- Masters Forensic Psychology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Rachel Zajac is a New Zealand forensic psychologist and professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Academic career Zajac graduated from the University of Otago in 2002 with a PhD titled "The effect of cross-examination on the reliability and credibility of children's testimony". She joined the Department of Psychology as a lecturer the following year and was appointed associate professor in 2016. In December 2019 she was promoted to full professor with effect from 1 February 2020.
Rachel Zajac's Published Works
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Published Works
- Asked and Answered: Questioning Children in the Courtroom (2003) (140)
- I don't think that's what really happened: the effect of cross-examination on the accuracy of children's reports. (2003) (122)
- Cross-Examination of Sexual Assault Complainants: A Developmental Comparison (2009) (95)
- The negative effect of cross-examination style questioning on children's accuracy: older children are not immune (2006) (76)
- Disorder in the courtroom? Child witnesses under cross-examination. (2012) (73)
- Age-related Differences in the Free-recall Accounts of Child, Adolescent, and Adult Witnesses (2014) (57)
- The wildcard: A simple technique for improving children's target-absent lineup performance (2009) (54)
- Does contextual information bias bitemark comparisons? (2014) (51)
- Lawyers’ Strategies for Cross-examining Rape Complainants: Have We Moved Beyond the 1950s? (2016) (48)
- Exploring the effects of age and delay on children's person identifications: verbal descriptions, lineup performance, and the influence of wildcards. (2011) (33)
- The role of psychosocial factors in young children's responses to cross‐examination style questioning (2009) (31)
- The effect of age and reminders on witnesses’ responses to cross-examination-style questioning ☆ (2014) (28)
- Addressing the negative effect of cross-examination questioning on children's accuracy: can we intervene? (2013) (27)
- Misconceptions about childhood sexual abuse and child witnesses: Implications for psychological experts in the courtroom (2013) (26)
- The role of repeated interviewing in children's responses to cross-examination-style questioning. (2013) (24)
- Bloodstain pattern classification: Accuracy, effect of contextual information and the role of analyst characteristics. (2016) (23)
- Young children's responses to cross-examination style questioning: the effects of delay and subsequent questioning (2015) (20)
- Don't it make my brown eyes blue: Co-witness misinformation about a target's appearance can impair target-absent line-up performance (2009) (20)
- Preparing Children for Cross-examination: How Does Intervention Timing Influence Efficacy? (2013) (18)
- Sexual assault complainants on the stand: a historical comparison of courtroom questioning (2017) (17)
- Suggestibility in neglected children: The influence of intelligence, language, and social skills. (2018) (16)
- Contact Tracing: A Memory Task With Consequences for Public Health (2020) (15)
- The “Good Old Days” of Courtroom Questioning: Changes in the Format of Child Cross-Examination Questions Over 60 Years (2018) (14)
- Are co-witnesses special? Comparing the influence of co-witness and interviewer misinformation on eyewitness reports (2014) (14)
- An Imperfect Match? Crime‐related Context Influences Fingerprint Decisions (2016) (14)
- Exploring the role of contextual information in bloodstain pattern analysis: A qualitative approach. (2016) (14)
- Trussht me, I know what I sshaw: The acceptance of misinformation from an apparently unreliable co‐witness (2016) (12)
- Getting the Picture: Effects of Sketch Plans and Photographs on Children's, Adolescents' and Adults' Eyewitness Recall (2015) (12)
- Investigative Interviewing in the Courtroom: Child Witnesses under Cross‐Examination (2009) (11)
- A historical comparison of Australian lawyers' strategies for cross-examining child sexual abuse complainants. (2017) (11)
- Age-related differences in memory for time, temporal reconstruction, and the availability and use of temporal landmarks (2016) (11)
- Conducting Successful Memory Interviews with Children (2018) (10)
- Australian stakeholders’ views on improving investigative interviews with adult sexual assault complainants (2019) (9)
- The Diagnostic Value of Children's Responses to Cross-Examination Questioning. (2016) (8)
- Improving children's performance on photographic line-ups: Do the physical properties of a ‘wildcard’ make a difference? (2016) (6)
- Judgments of Memory Coherence Depend on the Conditions Under Which a Memory is Retrieved, Regardless of Reported PTSD Symptoms (2020) (6)
- Special measures in child sexual abuse cases: views of Australian criminal justice professionals (2020) (4)
- Laypeople's beliefs about memory: disentangling the effects of age and time (2020) (4)
- Courtroom questioning of child sexual abuse complainants: Views of Australian criminal justice professionals (2019) (3)
- Witness interviewing practices in New Zealand (2017) (3)
- Attentional difficulty is a risk factor for interrogative suggestibility in preschoolers (2020) (2)
- Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and Contextual Bias (2015) (2)
- Evidence From the Trauma-Film Paradigm That Traumatic and Nontraumatic Memories Are Statistically Equivalent on Coherence (2021) (2)
- Preparing children for cross-examination: do the practice questions matter? (2016) (2)
- The negative effect of cross-examination-style questioning on witnesses’ accuracy decreases with age. (2012) (2)
- Contextual Bias in the Analysis of Bitemarks (2015) (2)
- Cross‐Examination: Impact on Testimony (2013) (1)
- Judgments of memory coherence depend on the conditions under which a memory is retrieved, regardless of reported PTSD symptoms. (2020) (1)
- Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: the Effect of Truncated Testimony on Juror Decision-making. (2016) (1)
- Improving childrens accuracy on target-absent lineups: Do the physical characteristics of the wildcard influence its success? -poster (2010) (1)
- Trivially informative semantic context inflates people's confidence they can perform a highly complex skill (2022) (0)
- Police Investigators’ Perceptions of the Challenges Associated With Interviewing Adult Sexual Assault Complainants (2022) (0)
- Investigative Interviews with Adult Sexual Assault Complainants (2019) (0)
- The effect of co-witness misinformation on children’s, adolescents’ and adults’ recall of a witnessed event. (2012) (0)
- Scholarship amid sheep: Applied cognition research in Aotearoa New Zealand. (2023) (0)
- Conducting Successful Memory Interviews with Children (2017) (0)
- Cross Examination and the Child Witness (2001) (0)
- Reality bites: The effect of contextual information on the interpretation of bitemark evidence (2012) (0)
- Adolescents’ eyewitness abilities: Addressing a gap in the literature (2011) (0)
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