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Dr. Christian Meissner

  • Professor, Director of Graduate Education

Contact

cameissn@iastate.edu

515-294-2119

487-B Science Hall
2237 Osborn Drive
Ames IA
50011-1027

Bio

Research Interests

Applied cognition, including the role of memory, attention, perception, and decision processes in real world tasks; areas of application include face recognition, forensic interviewing, deception detection, legal decision making, and comparative forensic sciences.

Topics of interest

Deception, Decision making, Eyewitness identification, Interrogation, Investigative interviewing, Rapport

Education

PhD, Cognitive & Behavioral Sciences Florida State University University, 2001

MS, Cognitive & Behavioral Sciences Florida State University, 1999

BA, Psychology Pfeiffer University, 1996