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John Donald Read
Born1943
CitizenshipCanada
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive Psychology
InstitutionsSimon Fraser University

John Donald Read (born 1943) is a Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University in Canada. [1] He works primarily in the field of Law and Forensics and has conducted research in the fields of human memory, eyewitness memory and the legal system.[1]

Education

J. Don Read received a bachelor’s degree with Honours in Psychology from University of British Columbia in 1964. He then completed his Master of Science in Experimental Psychology at Kansas State University in 1966 writing his thesis on extraserial cues in verbal learning.[2] In 1966 he received a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Kansas State University. The topic for his Ph.D. dissertation was positive and negative information in human learning.

Career

From 1969 to 1999 J. Don Read was employed at University of Lethbridge, starting as Assistant Professor and working his way up to Full Professor. From 2000-2008 he worked as Adjunct Professor at University of Victoria. From 2002-present he has been employed at Simon Fraser University, first as Full Professor and Director for the Law and Psychology Program and from 2009 as Full Professor and Chair. During his career he has also been Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor at University of Colorado (1976) and University of Victoria (1991-1992, 1997-1999).

J. Don Read has taught the following courses: Psychology and the law, Autobiographical Memory in legal contexts, Introductory Psychology, Research Methodology, Introduction to Statistics, Advanced Statistics, Psychology of Learning, Cognitive Psychology, Perception, Advanced Human Learning & Memory, Human Experimental Psychology, Advanced Seminars in Cognitive Psychology.[2] In addition to this he has supervised multiple Honours and Master’s Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations.

Research

In the early stages of his career as a scientist Read's research was mostly in the area of verbal learning. [3] [4] He also studied recognition and recollection of words and faces. [5] [6] From the early 1980's he started focusing his research more towards memory in legal settings such as eyewitness memory. [7] [8] [9] In the 1990's the debate about the reality of repressed memories was a point of interest for many cognitive psychologists, Read included. In 1994 he published a paper together with Stephen Lindsay called "Psychotherapy and memories of childhood sexual abuse: A cognitive perspective".[10] This paper was published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology and has been cited over 240 times by other researchers and reviewers. [11] The paper also created a lot of discussions at the time it was published. [12][13][14] Since then Read has conducted more research in the area of false/recovered memories. [15][16][17] More recently Read has published more articles in the forensic field, mostly about the reliability of eyewitness testimonies and identifications. [18][19][20]

Publications

Journal articles

(Selected publications from Simon Fraser University website. [1] )

Read, J. D. (2006). Features of eyewitness testimony evidence implicated in wrongful convictions. Manitoba Law Journal, 31, 523-542.

Connolly, D. A. & Read, J. D. (2006). Delayed prosecutions of historic child sexual abuse: Analyses of 2064 Canadian criminal complaints. Law and Human Behavior, 30, 409-434.

Read, J. D., Connolly, D. A., & Welsh, A. (2006) Prediction of verdicts in archival cases of historical child sexual abuse. Law and Human Behavior, 30, 259-285.

Lindsay, D. S., Hagen, L., Read, J. D., Wade, K. A., & Garry, M. (2004) True photographs and false memories. Psychological Science. 15, 149-154.

Wade, K. A., Garry, M., Read, J. D., & Lindsay, D. S. (2002). A picture is worth a thousand lies: Using false photographs to create false childhood memories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 597-603.

Read, J. D., & Lindsay, D. S. (2000). The amnestic consequences of summer camps and high school graduations: Effects of memory retrieval upon reported amnesia. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 13, 129-147.

Lindsay, D. S., Read, J. D., & Sharma, K. (1998). Accuracy and confidence in person identification: The relationship is strong when witnessing conditions vary widely (as they do across real-world witnesses). Psychological Science, 9, 215-218.

Read, J. D. (1996). From a passing thought to a false memory in 2 minutes: Confusing real and illusory events. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 105-111.

Lindsay, D. S, & Read, J. D. (1994). Psychotherapy and memories of childhood sexual abuse: A cognitive perspective. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 8, 281-338.

Read, J. D., Yuille, J. C., & Tollestrup, P. (1992). Recollections of a robbery: Effects of alcohol and arousal upon recall and person identification. Law and Human Behavior, 16, 425-446.


Other publications

Read has also written book chapters, edited books, and published book and paper reviews, as well as presenting at multiple conferences. [2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "SFU Psychology". Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b c "J. Don Read CV" (PDF). Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  3. ^ Brown, S. C., & Read, J. D. (1966). Effect of simultaneous list presentation on paired-associate learning. Psychological Reports, 19, 787-7990
  4. ^ Brown, S. C., & Read, J. D. (1970). Associative organization in paired-associates learning and transfer. Journal Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 9, 317-326.
  5. ^ Read, J. D. (1979). Rehearsal and recognition of human faces. American Journal of Psychology, 92, 71-85.
  6. ^ Wnek, I., & Read, J. D. (1980). Recall and recognition encoding differences for low- and high- imagery words. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 50, 391-394.
  7. ^ Read, J. D., & Bruce, D. (1984). On the external validity of questioning effects in eyewitness testimony. International Review of Applied Psychology, 33, 33-49.
  8. ^ Hammersley, R. H., & Read, J. D. (1983). Testing witnesses' voice recognition: Some practical recommendations. Journal of the Forensic Science Society, 23, 203-208.
  9. ^ Deffenbacher, K. A., Cross, J. F., Handkins, R. E., Chance, J. E., Goldstein, A. G., Hammersley, R., & Read, J. D. (1989). Relevance of voice identification research to criteria for evaluating reliability of an identification. The Journal of Psychology, 123, 109-119.
  10. ^ Lindsay, D. S, & Read, J. D. (1994). Psychotherapy and memories of childhood sexual abuse: A cognitive perspective. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 8, 281-338.
  11. ^ "Web of Science".
  12. ^ Memories of child sexual abuse: A response to Lindsay and Read. Berliner, Lucy; Williams, Linda Meyer. Applied Cognitive Psychology8. 4 (Aug 1994): 379-387
  13. ^ Memory recovery and the use of the past: A commentary on Lindsay and Read from psychoanalytic perspectives. Cohler, Bertram J.. Applied Cognitive Psychology8. 4 (Aug 1994): 365-378.
  14. ^ Read, J. D., & Lindsay, D. S. (1994). Toward a middle ground on the “False Memory Debate”: Reply to commentaries on Lindsay and Read. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 8, 407-435.
  15. ^ Read, J. D. (1996). From a passing thought to a false memory in 2 minutes: Confusing real and illusory events. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3, 105-111.
  16. ^ Wade, K. A., Garry, M., Read, J. D., & Lindsay, D. S. (2002). A picture is worth a thousand lies: Using false photographs to create false childhood memories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 597-603.
  17. ^ Lindsay, D. S., Hagen, L., Read, J. D., Wade, K. A., & Garry, M. (2004) True photographs and false memories. Psychological Science. 15, 149-154.
  18. ^ Read, J. D., & Desmarais, S. L. (2009). Lay knowledge of eyewitness issues: A Canadian evaluation. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 321-326.
  19. ^ Turtle, J. W., Read, J. D., Lindsay, D. S., & Brimacombe, C. A. E. (2008). Toward a more informative psychological science of eyewitness evidence. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 22, 769-778.
  20. ^ Read, J. D. (2006). Features of eyewitness testimony evidence implicated in wrongful convictions. Manitoba Law Journal, 31, 523-542.
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