Jessica Marcon,Ph.D.
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Address: Email:marco1j@cmich.edu
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Bio:
Dr. Jessica Marcon received her Ph.D. in General Psychology with a focus in Legal Psychology from the University of Texas at El Paso in 2009. Her research has focused on the cognitive and social psychological processes involved in the identification of faces and fingerprints. Dr. Marcon has conducted research examining the underlying dual-process memory systems that distinguish performance on own- and other-race faces, whether perceptual processes are involved in the cross-race effect, and how such cross-racial identification can be mitigated.
Most recently, her research has focused on extending her work in face identification to the world of fingerprint identification. Dr. Marcon examines how humans perceive the distinctiveness of fingerprints, whether distinctiveness effects found in face perception research are evident in fingerprint identification, and whether there are conditions under which the distinctiveness effect can be eliminated.
Recent Research:
Evans, J., Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2009). Cross-racial lineup identification: The potential benefits of context reinstatement. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 15(1), 19-28.
Marcon, J. L., Susa, K. J., & Meissner, C. A. (2009). Assessing the influence of reconciliation and familiarity in memory for own- versus other- race faces. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 99-103.
Lassiter, G. D., Meissner, C. A., Ware, L. J., Marcon, J. L., & Lassiter, K. D., (2009). Interrogations and confessions: A conference long overdue. In G. D. Lassiter & C. Meissner (Eds.), Interrogations and confessions: Research, practice, and policy. Washington DC: APA.
Marcon, J. L., Meissner, C. A., & Malpass, R. S. (2008). Cross-race effect in eyewitness identification. In B. Culter (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology & Law. Sage Publications, 172-175.
Jackiw, L. B., Arbuthnott, K. D., Pfeifer, J. E., Marcon, J. L., & Meissner, C. A. (2008). Examing the cross-race effect in lineup identification using White/First Nations samples. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 40, 52-57.