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  1. Scientific impact, diversity, and open science at Law and human behavior (2012–2017).

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, February 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  2. Interrogation tactics may have downstream consequences on innocent and guilty defendants’ plea decisions.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, October 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  3. The translation of psychological science for the public good: Commentary on Marcus et al. (2025).

    Article • American Psychologist, October 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  4. In-court identifications affect juror decisions despite being unreliable.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, August 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jacqueline Katzman, Margaret Kovera

  5. Social influence in legal processes and decision-making

    Article • February 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Margaret Kovera

  6. The contribution of facial recognition technology to wrongful arrests and trauma.

    Article • Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy, November 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  7. Suspect race affects defense attorney evaluations of preidentification evidence.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, August 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jacqueline Katzman, Margaret Kovera

  8. Phenotypic mismatch between suspects and fillers but not phenotypic bias increases eyewitness identifications of Black suspects

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2024, Frontiers

    Margaret Kovera

  9. An offer you cannot refuse: Plea offer size affects innocent but not guilty defendants' perceptions of voluntariness.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, December 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Melanie Fessinger, Margaret Kovera

  10. The role of suspect development practices in eyewitness identification accuracy and racial disparities in wrongful conviction

    Article • Social Issues and Policy Review, November 2023, Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  11. On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions

    Article • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, November 2023, Elsevier

    Felix Holzmeister, Margaret Kovera

  12. Eyewitness Identification

    Article • September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Margaret Kovera

  13. Prosecutorial Misconduct

    Article • February 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  14. Potential causes of racial disparities in wrongful convictions based on mistaken identifications: Own-race bias and differences in evidence-based suspicion.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, February 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jacqueline Katzman, Margaret Kovera

  15. Diversifying the bench: A commentary on Berryessa, Dror, and McCormack (2022)

    Article • Legal and Criminological Psychology, December 2022, Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  16. From whose perspective? Differences between actors and observers in determining the voluntariness of guilty pleas.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, October 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Melanie Fessinger, Margaret Kovera

  17. Evidence strength (insufficiently) affects police officers’ decisions to place a suspect in a lineup.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, February 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jacqueline Katzman, Margaret Kovera

  18. Diversity’s Impact on the Quality of Deliberations

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Margaret Kovera

  19. Diversity Will Benefit Eyewitness Science

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, September 2021, Elsevier

    Margaret Kovera

  20. Eyewitness Identification in Its Social Context

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, September 2021, Elsevier

    Margaret Kovera

  21. Testing the waters: An investigation of the impact of hot tubbing on experts from referral through testimony.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, June 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Jen Perillo, Margaret Kovera, Anthony Perillo

  22. Improving Eyewitness-Identification Evidence Through Double-Blind Lineup Administration

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, November 2020, SAGE Publications

    Margaret Kovera

  23. Testing the waters: An investigation of the impact of hot tubbing on experts from referral through testimony

    Article • September 2020, Center for Open Science

    Margaret Kovera

  24. Recommendations for Collecting Eyewitness Identification Evidence

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, February 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Gary Wells, Margaret Kovera

  25. Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System: Prevalence, Causes, and a Search for Solutions

    Article • Journal of Social Issues, October 2019, Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  26. Variations in reliability and validity do not influence judge, attorney, and mock juror decisions about psychological expert evidence.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, September 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  27. Exposure to capital voir dire may not increase convictions despite increasing pretrial presumption of guilt.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, October 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  28. Viewing videotaped identification procedure increases juror sensitivity to single-blind photo-array administration.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, June 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  29. Lineup administrator influence on eyewitness accuracy

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, December 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  30. The case for double-blind lineup administration

    Article • Psychology Public Policy and Law, November 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  31. The psychology of juries.

    Article • January 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  32. Introduction: An overview.

    Article • January 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  33. Identifying Juror Bias: Moving from Assessment and Prediction to a New Generation of Jury Selection Research

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Margaret Kovera

  34. A Demonstrative Helps Opposing Expert Testimony Sensitize Jurors to the Validity of Scientific Evidence

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Margaret Kovera

  35. The Effects of Lineup Administrator Influence and Mortality Salience on Witness Identification Accuracy

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Margaret Kovera

  36. Cross-examination educates jurors about missing control groups in scientific evidence.

    Article • Psychology Public Policy and Law, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  37. Expert Testimony

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Margaret Kovera

  38. Hypothesis testing in attorney-conducted voir dire.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  39. Evaluation for Jury Selection

    Article • December 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  40. The Legal Context

    Article • November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  41. Report Writing

    Article • November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  42. Conducting Community Surveys

    Article • November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  43. Consultation During Voir Dire

    Article • November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  44. Empirical Foundations and Limits

    Article • November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  45. Measuring Potential Predictors of Verdict

    Article • November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  46. Forensic Personality and Social Psychology

    Article • September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  47. Do jurors get what they expect? Traditional versus alternative forms of children's testimony

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Margaret Kovera

  48. Expert Psychological Testimony

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, February 2011, SAGE Publications

    Margaret Kovera

  49. The potentially biasing effects of voir dire in juvenile waiver cases.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  50. Systematic Jury Selection

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Margaret Kovera

  51. The effects of rehabilitative voir dire on juror bias and decision making.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  52. Interpretation

    Article • January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  53. Data Collection

    Article • January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  54. The Legal Context

    Article • January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  55. Empirical Foundations and Limits

    Article • January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  56. Key Concepts in Eyewitness Identification

    Article • January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  57. Preparation for the Evaluation

    Article • January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  58. Report Writing and Testimony

    Article • January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Margaret Kovera

  59. The effects of harassment severity and organizational behavior on damage awards in a hostile work environment sexual harassment case

    Article • Behavioral Sciences & the Law, January 2009, Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  60. Can jurors recognize missing control groups, confounds, and experimenter bias in psychological science?

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  61. Instruction bias and lineup presentation moderate the effects of administrator knowledge on eyewitness identification.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  62. Psychological mediators of the effects of opposing expert testimony on juror decisions.

    Article • Psychology Public Policy and Law, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  63. Juror Need for Cognition and Sensitivity to Methodological Flaws in Expert Evidence1

    Article • Journal of Applied Social Psychology, January 2008, Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  64. Introduction to commentaries on the Illinois Pilot Study of lineup reforms.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  65. The effectiveness of opposing expert witnesses for educating jurors about unreliable expert evidence.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  66. Estimating the effects of misleading information on witness accuracy: can experts tell jurors something they don't already know?

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, January 2007, Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  67. The Effects of Attribution of Responsibility and Work History on Perceptions of Reasonable Accommodations.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  68. Can the Truth Be Captured?

    Article • PsycCRITIQUES, January 2005, Portico

    Margaret Kovera

  69. Psychology, law, and the workplace: An overview and introduction to the special issue.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  70. The effects of British and American trial procedures on the quality of juror decision-making.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2003, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  71. Children, Social Science, and the Law

    Article • June 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Margaret Kovera

  72. Assessment of the commonsense psychology underlying Daubert: Legal decision makers' abilities to evaluate expert evidence in hostile work environment cases.

    Article • Psychology Public Policy and Law, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  73. Assessment of the commonsense psychology underlying Daubert: Legal decision makers' abilities to evaluate expert evidence in hostile work environment cases.

    Article • Psychology Public Policy and Law, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  74. Compelled mental health examinations, liability decisions, and damage awards in sexual harrassment cases: Issues for jury research.

    Article • Psychology Public Policy and Law, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  75. Compelled mental health examinations, liability decisions, and damage awards in sexual harrassment cases: Issues for jury research.

    Article • Psychology Public Policy and Law, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  76. The effects of general pretrial publicity on juror decisions: An examination of moderators and mediating mechanisms.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  77. Expert Testimony

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

    Margaret Kovera

  78. The effects of peer review and evidence quality on judge evaluations of psychological science: Are judges effective gatekeepers?

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  79. The effects of peer review and evidence quality on judge evaluations of psychological science: Are judges effective gatekeepers?

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  80. Double-blind photoarray administration as a safeguard against investigator bias.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 1999, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  81. Reasoning about scientific evidence: Effects of juror gender and evidence quality on juror decisions in a hostile work environment case.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 1999, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  82. Expert testimony in child sexual abuse trials: the admissibility of psychological science

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, December 1997, Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  83. Does expert psychological testimony inform or influence juror decision making? A social cognitive analysis.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 1997, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  84. Identification of computer-generated facial composites.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 1997, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  85. Identification of computer-generated facial composites.

    Article • Journal of Applied Psychology, January 1997, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  86. Private Reactions to Public Transgressions: Predictors of Evaluative Responses to Allegations of Political Misconduct

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, February 1995, SAGE Publications

    Margaret Kovera

  87. Lust and Avarice in Politics

    Article • American Politics Quarterly, July 1994, SAGE Publications

    Margaret Kovera

  88. Expert testimony in child sexual abuse cases: Effects of expert evidence type and cross-examination.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, January 1994, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Margaret Kovera

  89. Do child sexual abuse experts hold pro-child beliefs?: A survey of the international society for traumatic stress studies

    Article • Journal of Traumatic Stress, July 1993, Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  90. Do child sexual abuse experts hold pro-child beliefs?: A survey of the international society for traumatic stress studies

    Article • Journal of Traumatic Stress, July 1993, Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  91. Recent Developments in North American Identification Science and Practice

    Article • Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  92. Pretrial Publicity: Effects, Remedies, and Judicial Knowledge

    Article • Wiley

    Margaret Kovera

  93. Implications of Automatic and Controlled Processes in Stereotyping for Hate Crime Perpetration and Litigation Margaret Bull Kovera

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Margaret Kovera

  94. Children, Social Science, and the Law: An Introduction to the Issues

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Margaret Kovera

  95. The Status of Evidentiary and Procedural Innovations in Child Abuse Proceedings

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Margaret Kovera