Gary L. Wells

Gary L. Wells

Iowa State University

H-index: 82

North America-United States

About Gary L. Wells

Gary L. Wells, With an exceptional h-index of 82 and a recent h-index of 42 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Iowa State University, specializes in the field of psychology, law, social cognition.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Cartridge-case examiners’ aversion to true rejections: A shocking problem with use of the “inconclusive” category.

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Lay (mis) perceptions of suspect-identification accuracy from biased and unbiased lineups.

In their own words: Verbalizations of real eyewitnesses during identification lineups.

Validity of forensic cartridge-case comparisons

Eyewitness confidence and decision time reflect identification accuracy in actual police lineups.

Using reflector variables to determine whether the culprit is present in or absent from a police lineup

Telling us less than what they know: Expert inconclusive reports conceal exculpatory evidence in forensic cartridge-case comparisons.

Gary L. Wells Information

University

Position

Professor of Psychology

Citations(all)

31379

Citations(since 2020)

6971

Cited By

26252

hIndex(all)

82

hIndex(since 2020)

42

i10Index(all)

181

i10Index(since 2020)

117

Email

University Profile Page

Iowa State University

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Gary L. Wells Skills & Research Interests

psychology

law

social cognition

Top articles of Gary L. Wells

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Cartridge-case examiners’ aversion to true rejections: A shocking problem with use of the “inconclusive” category.

Andrew M Smith

Gary L Wells

2024/3

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Kristy A Hamilton

Aaron S Benjamin

2019

Lay (mis) perceptions of suspect-identification accuracy from biased and unbiased lineups.

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

Rebecca C Ying

Andrew M Smith

Gary L Wells

2023/8

In their own words: Verbalizations of real eyewitnesses during identification lineups.

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

Nancy K Steblay

Gary L Wells

2023/8

Validity of forensic cartridge-case comparisons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Max Guyll

Stephanie Madon

Yueran Yang

Kayla A Burd

Gary Wells

2023/5/16

Eyewitness confidence and decision time reflect identification accuracy in actual police lineups.

Law and Human Behavior

Adele Quigley-McBride

Gary L Wells

2023/4

Using reflector variables to determine whether the culprit is present in or absent from a police lineup

Andrew M Smith

Gary L Wells

2023/2/23

Telling us less than what they know: Expert inconclusive reports conceal exculpatory evidence in forensic cartridge-case comparisons.

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Andrew M Smith

Gary L Wells

2023/10/2

Lives destroyed by distorted recollections of fluency, attention, view, and confidence: A sin of bias in eyewitness identification.

Gary L Wells

Laura Smalarz

2022/12

Fair lineups improve outside observers’ discriminability, not eyewitnesses’ discriminability: Evidence for differential filler-siphoning using empirical data and the WITNESS …

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Andrew M Smith

Laura Smalarz

Gary L Wells

James Michael Lampinen

Simona Mackovichova

2022/12

34 A Multi-Decade Journey between the Lab and the Real World

Pillars of Social Psychology: Stories and Retrospectives

Gary L Wells

2022/9/15

Laymen Perceptions of Fair and Biased Lineups

Rebecca Claire Ying

Andrew Smith

Gary L Wells

2022/7/1

Improving face identification of mask-wearing individuals

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Krista D Manley

Jason CK Chan

Gary L Wells

2022/3/28

Test a witness’s memory of a suspect only once

Psychological Science in the Public Interest

John T Wixted

Gary L Wells

Elizabeth F Loftus

Brandon L Garrett

2021/12

Plea-bargaining law: The impact of innocence, trial penalty, and conviction probability on plea outcomes

American Journal of Criminal Justice

Miko M Wilford

Gary L Wells

Annabelle Frazier

2021/6

Eyewitnesses’ free-report verbal confidence statements are diagnostic of accuracy.

Law and human behavior

Laura Smalarz

Yueran Yang

Gary L Wells

2021/4

Methodological considerations in eyewitness identification experiments

Adele Quigley-McBride

Gary L Wells

2021/2/25

Do multiple doses of feedback have cumulative effects on eyewitness confidence?

Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Laura Smalarz

Gary L Wells

2020/12

Assessment of bias in police lineups.

Psychology, Public Policy, and Law

Nancy K Steblay

Gary L Wells

2020/11

Distinguishing between investigator discriminability and eyewitness discriminability: A method for creating full receiver operating characteristic curves of lineup …

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Andrew M Smith

Yueran Yang

Gary L Wells

2020/5

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Co-Authors

H-index: 192
John T. Cacioppo

John T. Cacioppo

University of Chicago

H-index: 127
Elizabeth F. Loftus

Elizabeth F. Loftus

University of California, Irvine

H-index: 80
John Wixted

John Wixted

University of California, San Diego

H-index: 62
Amina Memon

Amina Memon

Royal Holloway, University of London

H-index: 35
Stephanie Madon

Stephanie Madon

Iowa State University

H-index: 33
Paul D. Windschitl

Paul D. Windschitl

University of Iowa

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