Emily Line

Emily Line

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Quantitative psychology, decision making

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publications

Memory for syntactic differences in mental illness descriptions

Published in Memory & Cognition, 2021

In three experiments, we observed that people form similar representations of state- and trait-based passages as reflected by their performance in two recognition tasks and a free-recall task. However, a fourth experiment suggested that participants’ memories of the exact syntax they read are not so degraded that they are unable to recover what they read when explicitly prompted.

Recommended citation: Line, E. N., Roberts, S., & Horne, Z. (2021). Memory for syntactic differences in mental illness descriptions. Memory & Cognition, 50(2), 407–424.
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Expert Witness Testimony

Published in , 2022

An overview of expert witness testimony in psychology and law.

Recommended citation: Line, E. N., McCowan, K., Plantz, J., & Neal, T. M. S. (2022). Expert witness testimony. In R. A. R. Gurung (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Psychology in the Real World. Routledge.

Income, Demographics, and Life Experiences of Clinical-Forensic Psychologists in the United States

Published in Frontiers in Psychology, 2022

We provide aggregate data about income, demographics, and life experiences of women and men practicing clinical-forensic psychology primarily in the United States (N = 376).

Recommended citation: Neal, T. M. S., & Line, E. N. (2022). Income, demographics, and life experiences of clinical-forensic psychologists in the United States. Frontiers in Psychology, 3422.
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Paper Title Number 4

Published in GitHub Journal of Bugs, 2024

This paper is about fixing template issue #693.

Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2024). "Paper Title Number 3." GitHub Journal of Bugs. 1(3).
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Regional Gender Bias and Year Predict Gender Representation on Civil Trial Teams.

Published in Law and Human Behavior, 2024

We examine 655 real civil trials for whether gender bias and time predict female attorneys’ representation on civil trial teams and in leadership roles.

Recommended citation: Phalen, H. J., Lawrence, M. L., Gittings, K. L., Line, E. N., Thomas, S. N., Eerdmans, R. E., Bettis, T. C., Campbell, J. C., & Salerno, J. M. (2024). Regional gender bias and year predict gender representation on civil trial teams. Law and Human Behavior, 48(5–6), 580–596. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000585
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Anecdotes impact medical decisions even when presented with statistical information or decision-aids.

Published in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024

How do people integrate conflicting anecdotal and statistical information when making medical decisions? In four experiments (N = 4126), we tested how people use conflicting information to judge the efficacy of artificial and real medical treatments.

Recommended citation: Line, E. N., Jaramillo, S., Goldwater, M., & Horne, Z. (2024). Anecdotes impact medical decisions even when presented with statistical information or decision-aids. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 9(1), 51.
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talks

teaching

The Truth Behind the Tool: Psychological Assessment Evidence in Court

Workshop, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 2019

This was a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course that was attended by roughly 200 attorneys. In this course, I described the features of a psychological assessment tool that are crucial in evaluating its reliability, validity, error rate, and general acceptance in the field. These are all factors that attorneys and judges should take into account when making admissibility-related decisions for evidence in court.

PSY 516: Quantitative Analysis II

Graduate course, Arizona State University, 2020

I was a teaching assistant for the required graduate course Quantitative Analysis II for one semester. These responsibilities included grading homework and exams, answering students questions, and transitioning the classroom to online during the Covid-19 pandemic. I also assisted students with software and analyses during the lab portions of the class.

The probability of a guilty verdict: Using mathematical order constraints with dichotomous data

Workshop, Iowa State University, 2023

In this workshop I introduced the analysis framework termed “order-constrained inference” using examples from psychology and law. I described how to translate verbal hypotheses to mathematical order constraints, provided an example of this method using a secondary analysis, and demonstrated how to analyze these mathematical models using open-source software.

A model competition approach to determining factors related to interrogation decisions

Workshop, Stanford University, 2025

In this workshop I considered 28 competing hypotheses stemming from interrogation literature. These hypotheses made predictions about mock interrogators’ judgments and decisions based on several features about a suspect. I presented summary information about these competing models, including model parsimony and different specifications of models. After I revealed the winning model, workshop participants discussed implications for the field.

PSY 474: Correctional Psychology

Undergraduate course, Arizona State University, 2025

I was the instructor of record for this course on three separate occasions, starting in Spring 2024. For each session, I supervised 2-4 course assistants.

PSY 368: Forensic Psychology

Undergraduate course, Arizona State University, 2025

I was the instructor of record for this course on four separate occasions, starting in Summer 2023. For each session, I supervised 2-5 course assistants.

PSYC 235: Introduction to Statistics

Undergraduate course, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2025

I have served as the primary instructor and as the lab teaching assistant for this course.