Myers, Bryan

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Professor, Psychology , College of Science and Engineering

Myers, Bryan

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myersb@uncw.edu

910.962.3636

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Selected Publications

Academic Article
- Damned if you don't: Public perceptions of polygraph testing and suspect willingness to be tested. Legal and Criminological Psychology. 2025-03-01
- The influence of false evidence ploy variants on perceptions of coercion and deception.. Journal of Forensic Psychology: Research and Practice.. 24. 2023-02-01
- Psychological Expert Testimony in the Capital Trial Penalty Phase: A Content Analysis of Trial Transcripts. Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice. 2022-03-01
- We can work it out: Positive problem solving as a mediator between perspective-taking and relationship satisfaction among college students. Journal of American College Health. 71:914-920. 2021-04-01
- Capital juror questionnaires in death-penalty cases: A study of attitudes, denials, and deceptions. Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 38:12-31. 2019-01-01
- Capital juror questionnaires in death-penalty cases: A study of attitudes, denials, and deceptions.. Behavioral Sciences and the Law. 38:12-31. 2019-01-01
- The heterogeneity of victim impact statements: A content analysis of capital trial sentencing penalty phase transcripts.. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 24:474-488. 2018-11-01
- Perceptions of Recovered Memory Therapy: Hindsight bias effects on judgments of memory veracity and therapist competence and responsibility. Psychology of Consciousness: Research, Theory, and Practice. 4:396-417. 2017-12-01
- The Impact of Angry versus Sad Victim Impact Statements on Mock Jurors’ Sentencing Decisions in a Capital Trial. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 44:862-886. 2017-06-01
- Good or essential? The effects of victim characteristics and family significance on sentencing judgments and perceptions of harm. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law. 23:651-669. 2016-09-01
- Beliefs about therapist suggestiveness and memory veracity in recovered memory therapy: An analogue study.. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.. 46:270-276. 2015-08-01
- Negative emotions felt during trial: The effect of fear, anger, and sadness on juror decision making. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 29:200-209. 2015-03-01
- False Memories for Highly Aversive Early Childhood Events: Effects of Guided Imagery and Group Influence. Psychology of Consciousness: Research, Theory, and Practice. 1:20-31. 2014-03-01
- Assessing Pretrial Juror Attitudes: A Comparative Analysis of the RLAQ, JBS, and the PJAQ.. . 2013-01-01
- Job satisfaction among psychologists working in state prisons: The relative impact of individual facets assessing economics, management, relationships, and perceived organizational support. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 37:306-318. 2010-01-01
- Predicting guilt judgments and verdict change using a measure of pretrial bias in a videotaped mock trial with deliberating jurors. Psychology, Crime, and Law.. 15:619-634. 2009-01-01
- Linking pretrial knowledge and Juror Prejudgment: Some methodological considerations. American Journal of Forensic Psychology. 20:53-71. 2002-10-01
Chapter
- Victim impact statements: 25 years post-Payne -- Advances in Psychology and Law vol. 3. Springer. 41-76. 2018-06-01
- The impact of emotions on juror judgments and decision making. Springer. 59-83. 2016-10-01
- Job satisfaction among psychologists working in state prisons: The relative impact of individual facets assessing economics, management, relationships, and perceived organizational support. Current Perspectives in Forensic Psychology: Fourth Edition. pp. 263-274. 2015-01-01
- Expert testimony on the polygraph test: Issues surrounding admissibility and examination of jurors’ critical evaluation of evidence. -- Advances in Psychological Research. Nova Publishers. 2010-04-01
- Examining the relation between pretrial juror attitudes and performance -- Handbook of Social Justice. In F. Columbus (Ed.) Social Justice. Nova Science Publishers, Inc.. 169-185. 2009-10-01
- The unseen role of juror bias: Implications and. Social Justice. Nova Science Publishers, Inc..

Presentations

Presentation
- Deadly confusion: Mitigator strength ratings depend on what mitigator example is provided., Association for Psychological Science Annual Conference 2025-05-01
- Seeing, Believing, and Misunderstanding: The Negative Impact of Neuroimages on Perceptions of Expert Psychological Testimony., Association for Psychological Science Annual Conference 2025-05-01
- 2023-05-01
- 2023-01-01
- 2023-01-01
- 2021-08-01
- 2021-08-01
- A Content Analysis of Capital Trial Penalty Phase Transcripts with Expert Testimony, American Psychological Association Virtual Conference 2021-08-01
- 2020-05-01
- 2020-05-01
- Looking For an Expert’s Opinion: A Content Analysis of Capital Trial Penalty Phase Transcripts with Expert Testimony, Association for Psychological Science Conference 2020-05-01
- Death penalty support and sentencing: Honesty versus impartiality instructions, American Psychology Law Society 2020-03-01
- 2020-01-01
- 2020-01-01
- 2019-05-01
- 2019-05-01
- 2019-05-01
- Perspective taking moderates the reverse hindsight bias effect., Association for Psychological Science 2019-05-01
- Privacy please: Capital trial voir dire as a predictor of sentencing judgments., Association for Psychological Science 2019-05-01
- Victim Impact Statements in Capital Trials: The Impact of Defendant and Victim Cultural Worldviews, Association for Psychological Science Conference 2019-05-01
- 2019-03-01
- 2019-03-01
- Victim Impact Statements and Capital Sentencing: The Effects of Multiple Witness Testimony, American Psychology-Law Society Conference 2019-03-01
- 2018-03-01
- 2018-03-01
- Jeopardizing capital jury selection: denials and deceptions of death penalty biases, annual conference of the American-Psychology Law Society 2018-03-01
- The Effects of Victim Impact Statements and Defendant Race on Sentencing, annual conference of the American-Psychology Law Society 2018-03-01
- 2016-03-01
- Not Such Sweet Revenge: General Support for the Death Penalty, but not Retribution and Revenge Attitudes, Predict Mitigation Importance, annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society 2016-03-01
- Perceptions of Recovered Memory Therapy: Suggestiveness, Memory Veracity, and Therapist Culpability., annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society 2016-03-01
- Public Attitudes toward Victim Impact Statements in Capital Cases: Individual Differences and the Willingness to Hear the Victim’s Perspective., annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society 2016-03-01
- 2015-03-01
- 2015-03-01
- The impact of angry versus sad victim impact statements on sentencing decisions in capital trials, annual conference of the American Psychology-Law Society 2015-03-01
- 2014-08-01
- 2014-08-01
- Intoxicated eyewitnesses: The effects of timing on susceptibility to misinformation, Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association 2014-08-01
- The effects of victim character and family significance on sentencing decisions in capital trials, Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association 2014-08-01
- 2014-03-01
- 2013-05-01
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- 2013-03-01
- 2011-03-01
- 2011-03-01
- Measures of Legal and Traditional Authoritarianism, Need for Closure, and Mock Juror Judgments., American Legal and Psychological Society 2011-01-01
- Job satisfaction among correctional psychologists in North Carolina, North Carolina Department of Correction Psychology Staff Meeting 2010-04-01
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