Publications

Journal Articles

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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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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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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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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Book Chapters

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.

Emily Line