Biography:Stephan Charman

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Short description: American forensic and legal psychologist

Stephen Charman is a forensic and legal psychologist who is known for his research in eyewitness memory.[1] Charman is an associate professor of psychology at Florida International University.[1]

Education

Charman received his Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology from Queens University.[2] He attended graduate school at Iowa State University where he obtained a Master in Science and a PhD in Social Psychology.[2] Charman's dissertation was titled Using counterfactuals to assess eyewitnesses' abilities to estimate the effects of external influences on their lineup identifications and discusses the limitations to eyewitness reliability in a legal context.[3] Charman was mentored by Dr. Gary Wells, who he collaborated with on a number of articles and book chapters.[4][5][6]

Career

Charman began his career at Florida international University in 2006 as an assistant professor.[7] He became an associate professor in psychology in 2012[7] and has since continued to teach and produce research as of 2024.[8] Iowa State University hosted The Psychology and Law Colloquia Series where Charman spoke on Improving lineup identification outcomes by screening out witnesses in September of 2019.[9]

Research

Charman's research has explored applied lineup theory[5] and the external bias that can affect eyewitness memory and testimony.[10][11] Charman's research was awarded by the American Psychological Association (2011–2014),[12] National Institute of Justice (2021–2022; 2019–2023),[13][14] and the National Science Foundation (2019–2025).[15] He has been the co-principal investigator on a grant awarded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[1][16] As of 2024, Charman has served as a peer reviewer for the following journals: Law and Human Behavior, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Applied Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Current Directions in Psychological Science.[17]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Charman, Stephen". https://discovery.fiu.edu/display/person-charmanstephen-d. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Communications, Florida International University-Digital. "Stephen Charman" (in en-US). https://case.fiu.edu/about/directory/profiles/charman-stephen.html. 
  3. ↑ Charman, Steve Douglas. Using counterfactuals to assess eyewitnesses' abilities to estimate the effects of external influences on their lineup identifications (Thesis). .
  4. ↑ Charman, Steve D.; Wells, Gary L. (2007). "Eyewitness lineups: Is the appearance-change instruction a good idea?". Law and Human Behavior 31 (1): 3–22. doi:10.1007/s10979-006-9006-3. ISSN 1573-661X. PMID 16612580. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=2115f234a06a2800ab1a7fd6f7402bfcbab3d9d0. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Charman, Steve; Wells, Gary L. (2014). "Applied Lineup Theory". Handbook Of Eyewitness Psychology 2 Volume Set. New York: Routledge. pp. 219–254. doi:10.4324/9781315805535-33. ISBN 978-1-315-80553-5. https://www.academia.edu/download/67961580/Applied_lineup_theory20210709-23190-yg5x3z.pdf. 
  6. ↑ Charman, Steve D.; Wells, Gary L. (2008). "Can eyewitnesses correct for external influences on their lineup identifications? The actual/counterfactual assessment paradigm.". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 14 (1): 5–20. doi:10.1037/1076-898X.14.1.5. ISSN 1939-2192. PMID 18377163. http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/DSS/2008-2009/Wells/Charman%26Wells.pdf. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Steve Charman". https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steve-Charman. 
  8. ↑ "Steve Charman". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aUAOD8YAAAAJ&hl=en. 
  9. ↑ "Psychology-Law Collquium Series hosts Dr. Stephen Charman" (in en-US). https://psychology.iastate.edu/2019/08/13/dr-steve-charman/. 
  10. ↑ Douglass, Amy Bradfield; Charman, Steve D.; Matuku, Kureva P.; Shambaugh, Laura J.; Lapar, Meghan P.; Lamere, Erika (2024). "Case information biases evaluations of video-recorded eyewitness identification evidence.". Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 13 (2): 292–305. doi:10.1037/mac0000126. ISSN 2211-369X. 
  11. ↑ Charman, Steve D.; Carlucci, Marianna; Vallano, Jon; Gregory, Amy Hyman (2010). "The selective cue integration framework: A theory of postidentification witness confidence assessment.". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 16 (2): 204–218. doi:10.1037/a0019495. ISSN 1939-2192. PMID 20565204. https://doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0019495. 
  12. ↑ "Eyewitnesses' memory for lineup fillers: Testing the robustness of a novel postdictor of a witness's identification accuracy | Florida ExpertNet". https://expertnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.details&id=246915. 
  13. ↑ "Alibi Generation: Improving innocents suspects accuracy and examining alibi discriminability using a novel GPS paradigm | Florida ExpertNet". https://expertnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.details&id=274266. 
  14. ↑ "Testing a 'not sure' instruction to reduce the harmful impact of estimator variables on lineup identification | Florida ExpertNet". https://expertnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.details&id=254886. 
  15. ↑ "Video-recording Eyewitness Identification Lineups: Testing for Unanticipated Costs and Undiscovered Benefits | Florida ExpertNet". https://expertnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.details&id=258719. 
  16. ↑ "Confirmation bias among interpreters in an interrogative setting | Florida ExpertNet". https://expertnet.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.details&id=237908. 
  17. ↑ "ORCID". https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5367-3124. 



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