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Curriculum Vitae

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Books

Cutler, B. L., & Kovera, M. B. (2010).  Evaluating eyewitness identification.  New York: Oxford University Press.

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. D., Kovera, M. B., & Groscup, J. L. (in press).  Jury research methods.  In B. Rosenfeld and S. Penrod (Eds.), Research methods in forensic psychology.  New York: Wiley. 

Zimmerman, D., Austin, J., & Kovera, M. B.  (in press).  Suggestive eyewitness identification procedures.  In B. L. Cutler (Ed.), Conviction of the innocent: Lessons from psychological research.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Kassin, S., & Kovera, M. B.  (in press).  Psychology and law. In K. Deaux & M. Snyder (Eds.), Oxford handbook of personality and social psychology.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Austin, J., & M. B. (in press). Expert testimony in child sexual abuse cases.  In M. Paludi & F. Denmark (Eds.), Victims of sexual assault and abuse: Resources and responses for individuals and families, Vol. 2.  Praeger.

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

Kovera, M. B. (2011).  Applying social psychology to law.  In R. Baumeister and B. Bushman (Eds), Social psychology and human nature (2nd edition).  Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth. 

Kovera, M. B. & Borgida, E. (2010).  Social psychology and law.  In S. T. Fiske, D. Gilbert, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), Handbook of Social Psychology, Fifth Edition (pp. 1343-1385).  Oxford University Press. 

Crocker, C. B., & Kovera, M. B.  (2010). The effects of rehabilitative voir dire on juror bias and decision making.  Law and Human Behavior,34, 212-226. DOI 10.1007/s10979-009-9193-9

Kovera, M. B.  (2010). Bias.  In N. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of research design (pp. 83-84). Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.  

 Kovera, M. B.  (2010). Confounding.  In N. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of research design (pp. 110-112). Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.  

Crocker, C. B. & Kovera, M. B. (2010). The American Psychology-Law Society.   In I. B. Weiner & W. E. Craighead (Eds.), The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology, 4th edition (pp. 83-84).  New York: Wiley.

Cass, S. A., Levett, L. M., & Kovera, M. B.  (2009).  The effects of harassment severity and organizational behavior on damage awards.  Behavioral Sciences and the Law. DOI: 10.1002/bsl.886.

Levett, L. M., & Kovera, M. B. (2009). Psychological mediators of the effects of opposing expert testimony on juror decisions.  Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 15, 124-148.

Penrod, S. & Kovera, M. B.  (2009). Recent developments in North American identification science and practice. In R. Bull, T. Valentine, & T. Williamson (Eds.), Handbook of psychology of investigative interviewing:  Current developments and future directions (pp. 257-284). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons.

Greathouse, S. M., Levett, L. M., & Kovera, M. B. (2009).  Sexual harassment: Antecedents, consequences, and juror decisions. In D. Krauss & J. Lieberman (Eds.), Psychological expertise in court (Vol. 2, pp. 151-174).  Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing. 

McAuliff, B. D., Kovera, M. B., & Nunez, G.  (2009).  Can jurors recognize missing control groups, confounds, and experimenter bias in psychological science?  Law and Human Behavior, 33, 247-257.

McAuliff, B. D., Kovera, M. B., & Gilstrap, L. L.  (2009).  An updated review of the effects of system and estimator variables on child witness accuracy in custody cases.  In R. Galatzer-Levy, L. Kraus, & J. Galatzer-Levy (Eds.), The scientific basis of child custody decisions (2nd Ed., pp. 125-164). New York:  John Wiley & Sons.

Greathouse, S. M., & Kovera, M. B.  (2009).  Instruction bias and lineup presentation moderate the effects of administrator knowledge on eyewitness identification.  Law and Human Behavior, 33, 70-82.  

 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.