Mario Baldassari
Supervisor
Research interests
I am currently working on two projects, one of which focuses on the effects of eyewitness testimony on confidence of investigators, specifically the abilities of police officers to discriminate between accurate and inaccurate witnesses. The other is an attempt to predict eyewitness’ proclivity to choose out of a lineup that does not contain the culprit, which would lead into general eyewitness accuracy prediction if successful. Beyond these two projects, I am looking to gain experience in differing threads of research and am generally interested in topics that include the experience of remembering and false or inaccurate memories.
Representative publications
Baldassari, M. J. & Kelley, M. R. (2012). Make ‘em Laugh? The mnemonic ffects of humor in a speech. The Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 17, 2-9.
Representative presentations
Baldassari, M. J., Kantner, J., & Lindsay, D. S. (2015, June) Individual Proclivity to Choose (PTC) for Face Recognition Predicts PTC for Lineups. Paper presented at the biannual meeting of the Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Victoria, Canada.
Baldassari, M. J., Dau, C., Brimacombe, C. A. E., & Lindsay, D. S. (2015, June). Investigating Police Investigators. Poster presented at the biannual meeting of the Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Victoria, Canada.
Recent awards
- 2015 & 2016, Grad Award, UVic
- 2016, TA Award, Canadian Council of Departments of Psychology