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Curriculum Vitae

A pdf version of my complete curriculum vitae can be obtained here. 

Publications

A list of publications appears below.  Papers available electronically can be obtained by clicking on the link.  If you need the password, please email me. 

Book

Bottoms, B. L., Kovera, M. B., & McAuliff, B. D. (Eds.) (2002). Children, social science, and the law.  New York: Cambridge University Press. 

Articles and Book Chapters (student authors indicated by bold print)

Penrod, S. & Kovera, M. B.  (in press). Recent developments in North American identification science and practice. T.  Williamson, R. Bull, & T. Valentine (Eds.),  Handbook of psychology of investigative interviewing:  Current developments and future directions. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. 

McAuliff, B. D., Kovera, M. B., & Gilstrap, L. L.  (in press).  An updated review of the effects of system and estimator variables on child witness accuracy in custody cases.  Chapter to appear in R. Galatzer-Levy & L. Kraus (Eds.), The scientific basis of child custody decisions (2nd Ed.). New York:  John Wiley & Sons.  

Crocker, C. B. & Kovera, M. B. (in press). The American Psychology-Law Society.   In I. B. Weiner & W. E. Craighead (Eds.), The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, 4th edition.  New York: Wiley.

Crocker, C., & Kovera, M. B. (in press).  Systematic jury selection.  In  R. L. Wiener and B. H. Bornstein (Eds.), Trial consulting: A psychological handbook. New York: Springer.   

Greathouse, S. M., Levett, L. M., & Kovera, M. B. (in press).  Sexual harassment: Antecedents, consequences, and juror decisions. In J. Lieberman and D. Krauss (Eds.), Psychology in the courtroom.  Hampshire, UK: Ashgate Publishing. 

Greathouse, S. M., & Kovera, M. B.  (2008).  Instruction bias and lineup presentation moderate the effects of administrator knowledge on eyewitness identification.  Law and Human Behavior. DOI 10.1007/s10979-008-9133-0.  Retrieved at http://www.springerlink.com/content/653110767808kt43/fulltext.pdf on July 7, 2008.

McAuliff, B. D., Kovera, M. B., & Nunez, G.  (2008).  Can jurors recognize missing control groups, confounds, and experimenter bias in psychological science?  Law and Human Behavior.   DOI 10.1007/s10979-008-9133-0.  Retrieved at http://www.springerlink.com/content/653110767808kt43/fulltext.pdf on June 30, 2008.

 Levett, L. M., & Kovera, M. B. (2008).  The effectiveness of educating jurors about unreliable expert evidence using an opposing witness.  Law and Human Behavior, 32, 363-374.

McAuliff, B. D., & Kovera, M. B. (2008). Juror Need for Cognition and sensitivity to methodological flaws in expert evidence. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38, 385-408.

Cutler, B. L., & Kovera, M. B.  (2008).  Introduction to commentaries on the Illinois field study of lineup reforms.  Law and Human Behavior, 32, 1-2.

Barnard, D. D.,  & Kovera, M. B.  (2008).  Juries and joined trials.  In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of psychology and law (pp. 392-395). Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.  

Copple, R., Torkildson, J., & Kovera, M. B.  (2008).  Expert psychological testimony: Admissibility standards.  In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of psychology and law (pp. 271-275). Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.  

Crocker, C., Sothmann, F. C., & Kovera, M. B.  (2008).  Voir dire.  In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of psychology and law (pp. 855-858). Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.  

Greathouse, S. M., Busso, J., & Kovera, M. B.  (2008).  Pretrial publicity, impact on juries.  In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of psychology and law (pp. 615-618). Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.  

Greathouse, S. M., Copple, R., & Kovera, M. B.  (2008).  Double-blind lineup administration.  In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of psychology and law (pp. 242-244). Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.  

Sothmann, F. C., Crocker, C., & Kovera, M. B.  (2008).  Jury selection.  In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), The encyclopedia of psychology and law (pp. 420-423). Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.  

McAuliff, B. D., & Kovera, M. B.  (2007).  Estimating the effects of misleading information on witness accuracy: Can experts tell jurors something they don’t already know?  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 849-870.   

Kovera, M. B., & Greathouse, S. M.  (2007).  Pretrial publicity: Effects, remedies and judicial knowledge.  In E. Borgida and S. T. Fiske  (Eds.), Psychological science in court: Beyond common knowledge (pp. 261-280).  Blackwell Publishers. 

Kovera, M. B. (2008).  Applying social psychology to law.  In R. Baumeister and B. Bushman (Eds), Social Psychology and Human Nature (pp. C1-C16).  Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth. 

Kovera, M. B. (2007).  Implications of automatic and controlled processes in stereotyping for hate crime perpetration and litigation.  In R. L. Wiener, B. Bornstein, R. Schopp, & S. Willborn (Eds.), Social consciousness in legal decision making: Psychological perspecives (pp. 227-246).  New York: Springer. 

Mitchell, T., & Kovera, M. B.  (2006).  The Americans with Disabilities Act: What is a reasonable accommodation?  Law and Human Behavior, 30, 733-748.  

Russano, M. B., Dickinson, J. J., Greathouse, S. M., & Kovera, M. B.  (2006).  “Why don’t you take another look at number three?”  Investigator knowledge and its effects on eyewitness confidence and identification decisions.  Cardozo Public Law, Policy, and Ethics Journal, 4, 355-379. 

Levett, L. M., Danielsen, E. M, & Kovera, M. B., Cutler, B. L. (2005).  Juror decision making.  In N. Brewer & K. Williams (Eds.), Psychology and law: An empirical perspective (pp. 365-406).  New York: Guilford. 

Kovera, M. B.  (2004).  Psychology, law, and the workplace: An overview and introduction to the special issue.  Law and Human Behavior, 28, 1-7. 

Collett, M. E., & Kovera, M. B.  (2003). The effects of British and American trial procedures on the quality of juror decision making.  Law and Human Behavior, 27, 403-422.

Kovera, M. B., Dickinson, J., & Cutler, B. L.  (2003). Voir dire and jury selection. In A. M. Goldstein (Ed.), Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology, Volume 11:  Forensic Psychology (pp. 161-175). New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Kovera, M. B., Russano, M. B., & McAuliff, B. D. (2002). Assessment of the commonsense psychology underlying Daubert:  Legal decision makers’ abilities to evaluate expert evidence in hostile work environment cases. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 8, 180-200.

Kovera, M. B., & Cass, S. A.  (2002). Compelled mental health examinations, liability decisions, and damage awards in sexual harassment cases: Issues for jury research. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 8, 96-114.

Kovera, M. B. (2002). The effects of general pretrial publicity on juror decisions: An examination of moderators and mediating mechanisms.  Law and Human Behavior, 26, 43-72. 

Greene, E., Chopra, S., Kovera, M. B., Penrod, S. D., Rose, V. G., Schuller, R., & Studebaker., C.  (2002). Jurors and juries: A review of the field.  In J. Ogloff (Ed.), Taking psychology and law into the 21st century. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 

Bottoms, B. L., Kovera, M. B., & McAuliff, B. D.  (2002).  Children, law, social science, and policy: An introduction to the issues. In B.L. Bottoms, M. B. Kovera, & B. D. McAuliff (Eds.), Children, social science, and the law (p. 1-12).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

McAuliff, B. D., & Kovera, M. B.  (2002). The status of evidentiary and procedural innovations in child abuse proceedings. In B.L. Bottoms, M. B. Kovera, & B. D. McAuliff (Eds.), Children, social science, and the law (p. 412-445).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kovera, M. B., & McAuliff. B. D.  (2000).  The effects of peer review and evidence quality on judge evaluations of psychological science: Are judges effective gatekeepers?  Journal of Applied Psychology, 85, 574-586. 

Phillips, M., McAuliff, B. D., Kovera, M. B., & Cutler, B. L.  (1999).  Double-blind lineup administration as a safeguard against investigator bias. Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, 940-951.

Kovera, M. B., McAuliff, B. D., & Hebert, K. S. (1999).  Reasoning about scientific evidence: Effects of juror gender and evidence quality on juror decisions in a hostile work environment case.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, 362-375.

Kovera, M. B., & McAuliff, B. D.  (1999).  Child witnesses in custody cases:  The effects of system and estimator variables on the accuracy of their reports. In R. Galatzer-Levy & L. Kraus (Eds.), The scientific basis of child custody decisions  (pp. 157-187).  New York:  John Wiley & Sons. 

Kovera, M. B. & Borgida, E. (1998).  Expert scientific testimony on child witnesses in the age of Daubert.  In S. J. Ceci & H. Hembrooke (Eds.), Expert witnesses in child abuse cases: What can and should be said in court (p. 185-215).  Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association.

Kovera, M. B., & Borgida, E.  (1997).  Expert testimony in child sexual abuse trials: The admissibility of psychological science.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11, S105-S129. 

Kovera, M. B., Penrod, S. D., Pappas, C., & Thill, D. L.  (1997).  Identification of computer-generated facial composites.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 82, 235-246. 

Kovera, M. B., Gresham, A. W., Borgida, E., Gray, E., & Regan, P. C. (1997).  Does expert testimony inform or influence juror decision-making?  A social cognitive analysis.  Journal of Applied Psychology, 82, 178-191. 

Kovera, M. B., & Borgida, E.  (1996).  Children on the witness stand: The use of expert testimony and other procedural innovations in U.S. child sexual abuse cases.  In B. L. Bottoms & G. S. Goodman (Eds.), International perspectives on child abuse and children’s testimony:  Psychological research and law (p. 201-220).  Newbury Park, CA:  Sage. 

Gonzales, M. H., Kovera, M. B., Sullivan, J. L., & Chanley, V.  (1995).  Private reactions to public transgressions: Predictors of evaluative responses to allegations of political misconduct.  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 136-148. 

Kovera, M. B., Levy, R. J., Borgida, E., & Penrod, S. D.  (1994).  Expert witnesses in child sexual abuse cases: Effects of expert testimony and cross-examination.  Law and Human Behavior, 18, 653-674. 

Chanley, V., Sullivan, J. L., Gonzales, M. H., & Kovera, M. B.  (1994).  Lust and avarice in politics: Damage-control for four politicians accused of wrongdoing (or, politics as usual).  American Politics Quarterly, 22, 297-333. 

Kovera, M. B, Borgida, E., Gresham, A. W., Swim, J., & Gray, E. (1993).  Do child sexual abuse experts hold pro-child beliefs? A survey of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.  Journal of Traumatic Stress, 6, 383-404. 

Kovera, M. B., Park, R. C., & Penrod, S. (1992).  Jurors’ perceptions of eyewitness and hearsay evidence.  Minnesota Law Review, 76, 703-722.

Borgida, E., Gresham, A. W., Kovera, M. B., & Regan, P. C. (1992).  Children as witnesses in court: The influence of expert psychological testimony.  In A. W. Burgess (ed.), Child trauma, Volume 1: Issues and research, (p.131-165).  New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 

Borgida, E., Gresham, A. W., Swim, J., Bull (Kovera), M. A. & Gray, E. (1989).  Expert testimony in child sexual abuse cases: An empirical investigation of partisan orientation.  Family Law Quarterly, 23, 432-445.

Penrod, S., Bull (Kovera), M. A., & Lengnick, S. (1989).  Children as observers and witnesses: The empirical data.  Family Law Quarterly, 23, 411-431.