Research Interests

• Children as witnesses
• Autobiographical and event memory
• Effects of stress/emotional arousal on memory
• Forensic interviewing

Representative Publications

Dahl, L., & Price, H. L. (in press). "He couldn't have done it, he was with me!" The impact of alibi witness age and relationship. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Fitzgerald, R., Price, H. L., & Connolly, D. A. (in press). Anxious and non-anxious children's face identification: The influence of witnessing conditions on confidence and accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Fitzgerald, R., Oriet, C., & Price, H. L. (2011). Change detection inflates confidence on a subsequent recognition task. Memory, 19, 879-890.

Price, H. L. & Roberts, K. P. (2011). The effects of an intensive training and feedback program on police and social workers' investigative interviews of children. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 43, 235-244.

Rischke, A. E., Roberts, K. P., & Price, H. L. (2011). Using spaced learning principles to translate knowledge into behavior: Evidence from investigative interviews of alleged child abuse victims. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 26, 58-67.

Schneider, L., Price, H. L., Roberts, K. P., & Hedrick, A. M. (2011). Children's episodic and generic reports of alleged abuse. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 862-870.

Connolly, D. A., Price, H. L., & Gordon, H. M. (2010). Judicial decision-making in timely and delayed prosecutions of child sexual abuse in Canada: A study of honesty and cognitive ability in assessments of credibility. Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 16, 177-199.

Evans, A. D., Roberts, K. P., Price, H. L., & Stefek, C. P. (2010). The use of paraphrasing in investigative interviews. Child Abuse & Neglect, 34, 585-592.

Connolly, D. A., Price, H. L., & Gordon, H. M. (2009). Judging the credibility of historic child sexual abuse complainants: How judges describe their decisions. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 15, 102-123.

Price, H. L., Lee, Z., & Read, J. D. (2009). Memory for committing a crime: Effects of arousal, proximity, and gender. American Journal of Psychology, 122, 75-88.

Connolly, D. A., Price, H. L., Lavoie, J. A. A., & Gordon, H. M. (2008). Perceptions and predictors of children's credibility of a unique event and an instance of a repeated event. Law and Human Behavior, 32, 92-112.

Desmarais, S. L, Price, H. L., & Read, J. D. (2008). "Objection Your Honor! Television is not the relevant authority." Crime drama portrayals of eyewitness issues. Psychology, Crime, and Law, 14, 225-243.

Price, H. L., & Connolly, D. A. (2008). Children's recall of emotionally arousing, repeated events: A review and call for further investigation. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 31,337-346.

Price, H. L., & Connolly, D. A. (2007). Anxious and non-anxious children's reports of a repeated or unique event. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 98, 94-112.

Connolly, D. A., & Price, H. L. (2006). Children's suggestibility for an instance of a repeated event versus a unique event: The effect of degree of association between variable options. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 93, 207-223.

Connolly, D. A., Price, H.L., & Read, J. D. (2006). Predicting expert social science testimony in criminal prosecutions of historic child sexual abuse. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 11, 55-74.

Price, H. L., & Connolly, D. A. (2006). BatMon II: Children's category norms for 33 categories. Behavior Research Methods, 38, 229-231.

Price, H. L., Connolly, D.A., & Gordon, H. M. (2006). Children's memory for complex autobiographical events: Does spacing of repeated instances matter? Memory, 14, 977-989.

Funding

NSERC

Laboratory Facilities

CHLD Lab (with Drs Wright and Robinson; funded by CFI) 

• Child friendly lab space with observation room
• Equipped for audio and video recording