Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2001 Assistant Professor Member, Social/Cognitive Program hkleider@gsu.edu 404-413-6280 740 Urban Life

My research focuses on episodic memory, with an emphasis on face recognition and eyewitness accuracy. I am interested in the conditions and circumstances under which people make memory errors, with special interest in the heuristics and biases that people employ when recollection is difficult.

My interests in memory and cognitive processes focus on various aspects of memory error as it relates to person memory. I am interested in basic research questions as well as questions with an applied focus. To that end, I use two complementary approaches in my research: First, I conduct traditional laboratory studies, examining memory for faces, words, and other stimuli. Second, I conduct more naturalistic studies, using live scenes to assess systematic perceptual biases and recollection errors. Together, my work incorporates both my general interest in memory functions and my specific interest in scientific applications to the judicial process.

My interest in eyewitness accuracy and the impact of stereotyping (A type of recollection heuristic) on memory for a witnessed event (see pictures below) has been the basis for both external (NIH) and internal grants. In these studies I find that when event recollection is difficult, people often rely on stereotypes to recall who did what in an event. I have also examined memory illusions for faces, misplaced familiarity (or transference errors, see lineup pictures), culprit misidentification due to accomplice ethnicity, the influence of imagery of event memory and source memory errors. In addition to investigations of eyewitness memory I also study the influence of heuristic processes and individual differences in working memory capacity on jury decision making and police officer in-field decisions (e.g. shoot or don’t shoot decisions). Currently I have several projects underway in my laboratory touching on the topics mentioned above as well as some very recent work focusing on how physiological arousal and event-type influence long-term event recollection with both older and younger adults.

		expectations influence memory
Testing memory for Crime sequences

Representative Publications and Manuscripts Under Review

Kleider, H.M., Pezdek, K., Goldinger, S. D. & Kirk, A. (on-line, April, 2007). Schema-Driven source misattributions errors: Remembering the expected from a witnessed event.  Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Kleider, H.M., & Goldinger, S.D. (2006). “The Generation and Resemblance Heuristics in Face Recognition:  Cooperation and Competition”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 32, 259-276.

Kleider, H.M., & Goldinger, S.D. (2004).  Illusions of face memory:  Clarity breeds familiarity.  Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 196-211.

Goldinger, S.D., Kleider, H.M., Azuma, T., & Beike, D. (2003).  "Blaming the victim" under memory load.  Psychological Science, 14, 1, 81-85.

Goldinger, S.D., Azuma, T., Kleider, H.M., & Holmes, V. (2002).  Font-specific memory: More than meets the eye?  In J. Bowers & C. Marsolek (Eds.),  Rethinking Implicit Memory.  Oxford University Press.  pp. 157-196.

Kleider, H.M., & Goldinger, S.D. (2001).  Stereotyping ricochet:  Complex effects of racial distinctiveness on identification accuracy.  Law and Human Behavior, 25, 6, 605-627.

Goldinger, S.D., Kleider, H.M., & Shelley, E. (1999).  The marriage of perception and memory: Creating two-way illusions with words and voices.  Memory & Cognition, 27, 328-338.

Kleider, H.M., Goldinger, S.D. & Knuycky, L. (revision under review). “Stereotypes Influence False Memory for Imagined Events”. Memory.

Kleider, H.M., Knuycky, L & Myers, A. (revision under review). “ The Trouble with loaded Juries”.  Psychonomics Bulletin and Review.

Kleider, H.M., Parrott, D.J. (revision under review).  “Aggressive Shooting Behavior: How Working Memory, Personality and Threat Influence Shoot Decisions”. Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Applied.