Education
Education
2008 Ph.D. Florida International University (Psychology)
2007 M.S. Florida International University (Psychology)
2004 B.A. University of Virginia (Cognitive Science & Economics)
Professional
Experience​
2019-present: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida International University; Legal Psychology Ph.D. Program Director
2013-2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida International University
2011-2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology & Counseling, University Texas at Tyler
2010-2011: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso
2008-2010: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso
Publications
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Evans, J.R., Mindthoff, A., LaBat, D., Sparacino, M., Schreiber Compo, N., Polanco, K., & Hagsand A.V. (2024). The impact of alcohol intoxication and short-sighted decision-making in the interrogation room. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000173
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Shaffer, S.A., Matuku, K., & Evans, J.R (2024). Repeated interrogations of sources of human intelligence using the Scharff technique. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2024.2407833
Goldfarb, D., Chae, H., Dawson, H.R., Evans, J.R., Fisher, R.P., Daneshbodi, A., & Meissner, C.A. (2024). Efficacy of memory protocols in 9- to 89-year-olds' memory for prior contacts. Scientific Reports, 14, 5775, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55267-3
Peek, J., Carol, R. N., Evans, J.R., Arms-Chavez, C., & Tidwell, P. (2024). I helped the interviewer and I liked it: Rapport building and benevolence transfer. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4156
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Deeb, H., Evans, J.R., & Vrij, A. (2023). Editorial: Contextualizing interviews to detect verbal cues to truths and deceit. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1300160
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LaBat, D.E., Goldfarb, D., Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Koolmees, C.J., LaPorte., G., & Lothridge, K. (2023). A forensic science informational video can help mock jurors evaluate forensic expert testimony. Criminal Justice and Behavior. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/00938548231195112
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LaBat, D.E., Goldfarb, D., Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Koolmees, C.J., LaPorte., G., & Lothridge, K. (2023). Improving juror assessments of forensic testimony and its effects on decision-making and evidence evaluation. Law and Human Behavior. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000539
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Hagsand, A.V., Kelly, C., Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Karhu, J., & Huntley, R. (2023). The interrogator-suspect dynamic in custodial interrogations in Sweden: An application of the interrogation taxonomy framework. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 64, 352-367. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12889
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Mattes, K., Popova, V., & Evans, J.R. (2023). Deception detections in politics: Can voters tell when politicians are lying? Political Behavior, 5, 395-418. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09747-1
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Meldrum, R.C., Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., & Piquero, A. R. (2023). Experimental evidence that alcohol intoxication diminishes the inhibitory effect of self-control on reactive aggression. Journal of Experimental Criminology. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1007/s11292-022-09549-3
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Wylie, K. & Evans, J.R. (2023). Investigating the utility of Cognitive Interview mnemonics among non-native English speakers. Psychology of Language and Communication, 27, 1, 226-255. doi: 10.58734/plc-2023-0012
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Evans, J.R., Dawson, H.R., Chae, H., Goldfarb, D., Fisher, R.P., Dianiska, R., Daneshbodi, A. & Meissner, C.A. (2022). Enhancing the effectiveness of contact tracing interviews: A randomized controlled experiment of an enhanced cognitive interview protocol. American Journal of Infection Control, 50, 631-637. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2021.12.015
Hagsand, A.V., Evans, J.R., Pettersson, D., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2022). A survey of police officers encounters with sober, alcohol- and drug-intoxicated suspects in Sweden. Psychology, Crime, & Law, 28, 523-544. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2021.1929978
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Hagsand, A.V., Pettersson, D., Evans, J.R., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2022). Police survey: Procedures and prevalence of intoxicated witnesses and victims in Sweden. European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 14, 11-21. doi: 10.5093/ejpalc2022a3
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Hagsand, A.V., Zajac, H., Lidell, L., Kelly, C.E., Schreiber Compo, N., & Evans, J. R. (2022). Police- suspect interactions and confession rates are affected by suspects’ alcohol and drug use status in low-stakes crime interrogations. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 983362. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.983362
Hess K., Wolfs, A.C.F., Goldfarb, D., Evans, J.R., Hayes, T., Granitur, C., & McClaney, S. (2022). The influence of gender and other extralegal factors on student loan bankruptcy decisions. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 28, 137-150. doi: 10.1037/law0000338
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Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., Wolfs, A., Polanco, K., Goldstein, N.E.S., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2022). Alcohol intoxication’s detrimental impact on facets of Miranda comprehension. Law and Human Behavior, 46, 264-276. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000490
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Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Polanco, K., & Hagsand, A.V. (2021). No evidence that low levels of intoxication at both encoding and retrieval impact scores on the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale. Psychopharmacology, 238(6), 1633-1644. doi: 10.1007/s00213-021-05797-9
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Evans, J.R., Shaffer, S.A., & Walsh, D. (2020). Interpreters in Investigative Interviewing Contexts. In R. Bull & I. Blandon-Gitlin (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Legal and Investigative Psychology (pp. 133-148). New York: Routledge.
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Mindthoff, A., Evans, J.R., Perez, G., Woestehoff, S.A., Olaguez, A.P., Klemfuss, J.Z., Vallano, J.P., Woody, W.D., Normile, C.J., Scherr, K.C., Carlucci, M.E., Carol, R.N., Hayes, T., Meissner, C.A., Michael, S.W., Russano, M.B., & Stocks, E.L. (2020). Juror perceptions of intoxicated suspects' interrogation-related behaviors. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 47, 222-246. doi: 10.1177/0093854819888962
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Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Carol, R.N., Nichols-Lopez, K., Holness, H., & Furton, K.G. (2019). The impact of alcohol intoxication on witness suggestibility immediately and after a delay. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33, 358-369. doi: 10.1002/acp.3502
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Mindthoff, A., Hagsand, A. V., Schreiber Compo, N., & Evans, J. R. (2019). Does alcohol loosen the tongue? Intoxicated persons' willingness to report transgressions or criminal behavior carried out by themselves or others. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33, 414-425. doi: 10.1002/acp.3480
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Altman, C., Schreiber Compo, N., Hagsand, A.V., & Evans, J.R. (2019). State of intoxication: A review of the effects of alcohol on witnesses’ memory. In J. Dickinson, N. Schreiber Compo, R.N., Carol, M. McCauley & B. Schwartz (Eds.). Evidence-based investigative interviewing: Applying Cognitive Principles (pp. 74-92). New York: Routledge.
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Mosser, A.E. & Evans, J.R. (2019). Increasing the number of contacts generated during contact tracing interviews. Memory, 27, 495-506. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2018.1529247
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Mosser, A.E. & Evans, J.R. (2019). From the police station to the hospital bed: Using the Cognitive Interview to enhance epidemiologic interviewing. In J. Dickinson, N. Schreiber Compo, R.N., Carol, M. McCauley & B. Schwartz (Eds.). Evidence-based investigative interviewing: Applying Cognitive Principles (pp. 93-115). New York: Routledge.
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McCarthy, R., Skowronski, J., Hoogesteyn, K., Verschuere, B., Meijer, E.H., Jim, A., …Evans, J.R.,… & Yıldız, E. (2018). Registered Replication Report: Srull & Wyer (1979). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 321-336. doi: 10.1177/2515245918777487
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Mindthoff, A, Evans, J.R., Perez, G., Woestehoff, S.A., Olaguez, A.P., Klemfuss, J.Z., Normile, C.J., Scherr, K.C., Carlucci, M.E., Carol, R.N., Meissner, C.A., Michael, S.W., Russano, M.B., Stocks, E.L., Vallano, J.P., & Woody, W.D. (2018). Potential jurors’ perceptions of interrogations and confessions: Are jurors finally believing in false confessions? Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 24, 430-448. doi: 10.1037/law0000182
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Shaffer, S.A., & Evans, J.R. (2018). Interpreters in law enforcement contexts: Practices and preferences according to investigators. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32, 150-162. doi: 10.1002/acp.3388
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Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., McCarthy, R., Hoogesteyn, K., Skowronski, J., …Evans, J.R., … & Yıldız, E. (2018). Registered Replication Report: Mazar, N., Amir, O., & Ariely, D. (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1, 299-317. doi: 10.1177/2515245918781032
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Charman, S.D., Reyes, A., Villalba, D., & Evans, J.R. (2017) The (Un)reliability of Alibi Corroborators: Failure to Recognize Faces of Briefly Encountered Strangers Puts Innocent Suspects at Risk. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 35, 18-36. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2264
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Evans, J.R., Pimentel, P.S., Pena, M.M. & Michael, S.W. (2017). The ability to detect false statements as a function of the type of statement and the language proficiency of the statement provider. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 23, 290-300. doi: 10.1037/law0000127
Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., Carol, R.N., Schwartz, B.L., Holness, H., Rose, S., & Furton, K. G. (2017). Alcohol intoxication and metamemory: Little evidence that moderate intoxication impairs metacognitive monitoring processes. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31, 573-585. doi: 10.1002/acp.3373
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Schreiber Compo, N., Carol, R.N., Evans, J.R., Pimentel, P., Holness, H., Nichols-Lopez, K., Rose, S., & Furton, K.G. (2017). Witness memory and alcohol: The effects of state-dependent recall. Law & Human Behavior, 41, 202-215. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000224
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Hagger, M. S., Chatzisarantis, N. L. D., Alberts, H., Anggono, C. O., Birt, A., Brand, R., … Evans, J.R., Fay, B.A., …., Mosser, A.E., …. Zweinenberg, M. (2016). A Multi-Lab Pre-Registered Replication of the Ego-Depletion Effect. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 546-573. doi: 10.1177/1745691616652873
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Vallano, J.P., Evans, J.R., Kieckhaefer, J.M., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2015). Rapport-building during witness and suspect interviews: A survey of law enforcement. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29, 369-380. doi: 10.1002.acp.3115
Evans, J.R., Houston, K.A., Meissner, C.A., Ross, A.B., LaBianca, J.R., Woestehoff, S.A., & Kleinman, S.M. (2014). An empirical evaluation of intelligence-gathering interrogation techniques from the United States Army Field Manual. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28, 867-875. doi: 10.1002/acp.3065
Evans, J.R., & Michael, S.W. (2014) Detecting deception in non-native English speakers. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28, 226-237. doi: 10.1002/acp.2990
Houston, K. A., Meissner, C. A. & Evans, J.R. (2014). Psychological processes that distinguish true and false confessions. In R. Bull’s (Ed.), Investigative Interviewing (pp. 19-34). New York: Springer.
Kelly, C.E., Redlich, A.D., Evans, J.R., & Meissner, C.A. (2014). Meta-analysis of the interview and interrogation literature. In Gerben Bruinsma & David Weisburd (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. New York, NY: Springer.
Meissner, C.A., Redlich, A.D., Michael, S.W., Evans, J.R., Camilletti, C.R., Bhatt, S., & Brandon, S. (2014). Accusatorial and information-gathering methods and their effects of true and false confessions: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 10, 459-486. doi: 10.1007/s11292-014-9207-6
Evans, J.R., Meissner, C.A., Ross, A.B., Houston, K.A., Russano, M.B., & Horgan, A.J. (2013). Obtaining guilty knowledge in human intelligence interrogations: Comparing accusatorial and information-gathering approaches with a novel experimental paradigm. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2, 83-88. doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.03.002
Evans, J.R., Michael, S.W., Meissner, C.A., & Brandon, S.E. (2013). Validating a new assessment method for deception detection: Introducing a psychologically based credibility assessment tool. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 2, 33-41. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2013.02.002
Evans, J.R., Houston, K.A., & Meissner, C.A. (2012). A positive, collaborative, and theoretically-based approach to improving deception detection. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 1, 122-123. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2012.04.007
Horgan, A.J., Russano, M.B., Meissner, C.A., & Evans, J.R. (2012). Minimization and maximization techniques: assessing the perceived consequences of confessing and confession diagnosticity. Psychology, Crime & Law, 18, 65-78. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2011.561801
Schreiber Compo, N., Evans, J.R., Carol, R.N., Villalba, D., Ham, L., Garcia, T. & Rose, S. (2012). Intoxicated Eyewitnesses: Better than their reputation? Law and Human Behavior, 36, 77-86. doi: 10.1007/s10979-011-9273-5
Evans, J.R. & Fisher, R.P. (2011). Eyewitness memory: Balancing the accuracy, precision, and quantity of information through metacognitive monitoring and control. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 501-508. doi: 10.1002/acp.1722
Schreiber Compo, N., Evans, J.R., Carol, R., Kemp, D., Villalba, D., Ham, L. & Rose, S. (2011). Alcohol intoxication and memory for events: A snapshot of a real world drinking scenario. Memory, 19, 202-210. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2010.546802
Evans, J.R., Meissner, C.A., Brandon, S.E., Russano, M.B., & Kleinman, S. M. (2010). Criminal versus HUMINT interrogations: The importance of psychological science in improving interrogative practice. Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 38, 215-249.
Evans, J.R., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2010). Mock jurors’ perceptions of identifications made by intoxicated eyewitnesses. Psychology, Crime & Law, 16, 191-210. doi: 10.1080/10683160802612890
Wright, D., Carlucci, M., Evans, J.R., & Schreiber Compo, N. (2010). Turning a blind eye to non-blind line-ups. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 849-867. doi: 10.1002/acp.1592
Evans, J.R., Marcon, J.L., & Meissner, C.A. (2009). Cross-racial lineup identification: The potential benefits of context reinstatement. Psychology, Crime & Law, 15, 19-28. doi: 10.1080/10683160802047030
Evans, J.R., Schreiber Compo, N., & Russano, M.B. (2009). Intoxicated eyewitnesses, victims and suspects: How common are they? Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 15, 194-221. doi: 10.1037/a0016837
Funding
2023-2024 National Science Foundation, Law and Science Program (co-PI). RAPID: Impact of changing death penalty unanimity requirements on case decisions
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2023-2024 National Science Foundation, I-Corps (co-PI). Analyzing customer interest in a psychologically-informed contact tracing tool
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2020-2023 High-value Detainee Interrogation Group, Federal Bureau of Investigation (PI) Interpreters memories for their interpreted interactions
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2020-2023 National Institute of Justice (co-PI) Improving juror comprehension of forensic testimony and its effects on decision-making and evidence evaluation
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2021-2023 Endowment for Education Grant, National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. How Gender Affects Judges' and Layperson's Student Loan Debt Discharge Decisions.
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2016-2022 National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program & Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program (PI) The impact of intoxication in legal contexts
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2020-2021 National Science Foundation, Developmental Sciences Program (co-PI) RAPID: Flattening the COVID-19 curve by flattening the developmental curve: Influence of age and interview protocol on the ability to remember familiar and unfamiliar contacts
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2015-2016 High-value Detainee Interrogation Group, Federal Bureau of Investigation (co-PI) Confirmation bias among interpreters in interrogative settings
2013-2014 American Psychology-Law Society, Early Career Professional Grant-in-Aid (PI) Detecting deception in non-native speakers
2012-2013 High-value Detainee Interrogation Group, Federal Bureau of Investigation/UTEP Center for Law and Human Behavior (subcontrated PI) The role of ego depletion in intelligence interrogations
2011-2012 High-value Detainee Interrogation Group, Federal Bureau of Investigation/UTEP Center for Law and Human Behavior (subcontracted PI) Detecting deception in non-native English speakers
2009-2011 Intelligence Community Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Scientific development of a psychologically-based credibility assessment tool (PBCAT)