Familiarity and Conviction in the Criminal Justice System

Joanna Pozzulo Full Professor and Chair, the Department of Psychology, Carleton University Emily Pica Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological Science and Counseling, Austin Peay State University Chelsea Sheahan Adjunct Professor, Carelton University Joanna Pozzulo is a Full Professor and the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. Dr. Pozzulo's research and teaching broadly falls under the domain of Forensic Psychology (borrowing from developmental, social, and cognitive psychology). Dr. Pozzulo has published widely on the "young eyewitness". Emily Pica is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Science and Counseling at Austin Peay State University. Dr. Pica's research interests include ways in which we can improve identification accuracy, factors that influence jurors' decision making, and the perceptions of the wrongfully convicted. Chelsea Sheahan is an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University. Her research focuses primarily on factors that impact eyewitness memory within a developmental context. Her secondary research interests are broadly in the area of juror decision making and corrections.