Summary

November 2021Outstanding Research Supervisor

- UK Times Higher Education Awards 2021 [shortlisted]

October 2020Fellow of the Psychonomic Society [FPsyS]

- Status awarded “in recognition of significant psychological research publications …in experimental psychology”

July 2019:  Academic Excellence Award – Annual Award

- Awarded by the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG) in recognition of Outstanding Achievements in the area of investigative interviewing

The iIIRG is a worldwide not-for-profit organisation with 500 members in >34 countries, including national and international bodies, with the objective of improving investigative interviewing.

Biography

Lorraine Hope is Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at the University of Portsmouth and a core member affiliated with the Information Elicitation programme of the UK National Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) (https://crestresearch.ac.uk). Over the past 20 years, her research has resulted in the development of innovative tools and techniques, informed by psychological science and practitioner need, for eliciting information and intelligence across a range of investigative contexts (e.g. Timeline Technique, Self-administered Interview, Structured Interview Protocol, RING Task, Time Critical Questioning Protocol). In terms of impact, she regularly delivers tools, research, evaluation and training for investigative interviewing and information elicitation in international policing, intelligence and security sectors, including for inter- and multi-national agencies. She has published widely on memory and information elicitation topics and speaks regularly at academic and practitioner conferences.

She also leads Hope Applied Cognition Lab.

Read more here: Link to CV for Professor Lorraine Hope

Research interests

Memory Performance in Applied Contexts;  Investigative Interviewing and Eliciting Information; Intelligence Gathering and Reluctance; Memory and Culture; Persuasion and Influence

Research outputs

2024

Debiasing judgements using a distributed cognition approach: A scoping review of technological strategies

Dharanikota, H., Hope, L., Howie, E., Skipworth, R. J. E., Wigmore, S. J., Yule, S.

26 Oct 2024, In: Human Factors, 21p.

A cross‐cultural and intra‐cultural investigation of the misinformation effect in eyewitness memory reports

Amankwah‐Poku, M., Anakwah, N., Hope, L., Horselenberg, R., van Koppen, P.

17 Sep 2024, In: Applied Cognitive Psychology. 38, 5, 14p., e4243

The effect of authority on eyewitness memory reports across cultures

Amankwah‐Poku, M., Anakwah, N., Hope, L., Horselenberg, R., van Koppen, P.

2 Sep 2024, In: Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Decision-making in action: How international-level professional football players gain an advantage

Hope, L., Miller-Dicks, M., Ramsey, H., Reddy, V.

24 Aug 2024, In: Psychology of Sport and Exercise

Self-generated cues: the role of cue quality in facilitating eyewitness recall

Gabbert, F., Hope, L., Wheeler-Mundy, R. l.

18 Jul 2024, In: Journal of Criminal Psychology

Hits and misses: digital contact tracing in a pandemic

Garry, M., Hope, L., Levine, L., Merritt, T. A., Salathé, M., Zajac, R.

1 Jul 2024, In: Perspectives on Psychological Science. 19, 4, p. 675 - 685

Extracting witness evidence in “cold case” investigations: what we know and what we need to learn

Gabbert, F., Hope, L., Luther, K., Price, H. L., Thomas, W.

6 Apr 2024, In: Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

2023

Exploring cultural differences in eyewitness accounts using a self-administered reporting technique

Abu Marak Brome, D. M., Anakwah, N., Gibson, V., Hope, L., Kontogianni, F., Rechdan, J., Soubra, N. A., Tavitian-Emladjian, L.

21 Nov 2023, In: Psychology, Crime & Law, 19p.

Who doesn't believe their memories? Development and validation of a new Memory Distrust Scale

Hope, L., Nash, R. A., Saraiva, R. B.

1 Sep 2023, In: Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 12, 3, p. 401-411

Cultural differences in the efficacy of unexpected questions, sketching, and timeline methods in eliciting cues to deception

Hope, L., Tache, I., Taylor, P., Warmelink, L.

31 Aug 2023, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 14, 13p., 1175333

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