Flinders University
Dr Ruth Horry
Dr
Ruth
Horry
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/ruth.horry
| Position/s: | Post-doctoral Research Associate School of Psychology |
| Phone: | +61 8 82017976 |
| Email: | ruth.horry@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Social Sciences North (392) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
I graduated with my PhD from the University of Sussex (UK) in 2009. After a brief 1 year post-doc at Royal Holloway University of London, I came to Flinders for my current post in August 2010.
Qualifications
DPhil Experimental Psychology (2009), University of Sussex, UK
MRes Psychological Research Methods (2006), University of Sussex, UK
BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
Research and consultancy
Research interests
I am interested in memory for faces and in eyewitness identification. I am also interested in more basic research in memory and cognition, including associative recognition, and metacognitive judgments. My PhD research focussed on the own-ethnicity advantage in face recognition.
Publications
Refereed journal articles
Horry, R., Palmer, M.A., Sexton, M.L., & Brewer, N., 2012. Memory conformity for confidently recognized items: The power of social influence on memory reports. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 783-789.
Horry, R., Memon, A., Wright, D.B., & Milne, R., 2011. Predictors of eyewitness identification decisions from video lineups in England: A field study. Law and Human Behavior.
Sporer, S.L. & Horry, R., 2011. Pictorial versus structural representations of ingroup and outgroup faces. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23(8), 974-984.
Sporer, S.L. & Horry, R., 2011. Recognizing faces from ethnic in-group and out-groups: The importance of outer face features and effects of retention interval. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25(3), 424-431.
Horry, R., Wright, D.B., & Tredoux, C.G., 2010. Recognition and context memory for faces from own and other ethnic groups: A remember-know investigation. Memory and Cognition, 38(2), 134-141.
Horry, R. & Wright, D.B., 2009. Anxiety and terrorism: Automatic stereotypes affect visual attention and recognition memory for White and Middle Eastern faces. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23(3), 345-357.
Wright, D.B., Horry, R., & Skagerberg, E.M., 2009. Functions for traditional and multilevel approaches to signal detection theory. Behavior Research Methods, 41(2), 257-267.
Horry, R. & Wright, D.B., 2008. I know your face but not where I saw you: Context memory is impaired for other-race faces. PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, 15(3), 610-614.
Book chapters
Palmer, M.A., Horry, R., & Brewer, N., 2011. Court-relevant research methods. In Research in practice for forensic professionals. New York: Routledge, pp. 86-107.
Conference publications
Horry, R., Brewer, N., & Weber, N., 2011. Identification by rejection: Increasing the diagnosticity of lineup decision. Identification by rejection: Increasing the diagnosticity of lineup decision, 9th Biennial Conference of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, New York, USA.
