Excited to share that I've been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant for research on expert witness reports in legal psychology, allowing the fantastic @evanrosmalen.bsky.social to start her PhD @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social! allp.nl/nwo-grant-fo...

🚨 Just published! Our case study on the ICTR reveals how cultural background shapes courtroom communication. Witnesses from non-WEIRD contexts often gave indirect responses, easily misinterpreted as unclear or evasive by legal professionals @anneliesvrede.bsky.social doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

Oh no, #SARMAC2025 is really over now! Survived my first conference as President and had a fantastic time with old friends and new. See you at #SARMAC2027! @fionagabbert.bsky.social @lorrainehope.bsky.social @charlesbstone.bsky.social @gabidb.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social

Cultural differences in eyewitness testimony have significant implications for investigative interviewers @gabidb.bsky.social #SARMAC2025

About to start our #SARMAC2025 symposium on eyewitness memory in cross-cultural contexts in the Fountain Suite with @anneliesvrede.bsky.social @gabidb.bsky.social Nkansah Aankwam @lorrainehope.bsky.social and Qi Wang @officialsarmac.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social

@anneliesvrede.bsky.social @amslablegpsy.bsky.social @vucriminologie.bsky.social

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📚 Read the full article:
doi.org/10.1080/0965...
#EyewitnessMemory #CrossCulturalResearch #LegalPsychology #CredibilityAssessment #CommunicationStyles

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Future research should explore how to better elicit forensically relevant details from individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds, especially in investigative interviews.

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This matters because detailedness is often used as a proxy for credibility in legal and institutional settings—potentially disadvantaging high-context communicators.

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These findings reflect differences in communication styles:
🗣️ Western Europeans → low-context (explicit, detail-focused)
🌍 Sub-Saharan Africans → high-context (implicit, meaning-focused)

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Sub-Saharan African participants included more contextual information, such as moral evaluations and inferences (e.g., interpreting the event as a scam).

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Despite differences in quantity, there were no significant differences in accuracy between the two groups.

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Western European participants reported significantly more correct, incorrect, and total details than sub-Saharan African participants.

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🔍 New research on cultural differences in eyewitness memory
By De Bruïne, Vredeveldt & Van Koppen (2025)
We compared how sub-Saharan African and Western European participants recalled the same mock crime video.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0965...

Saturday afternoon: Proofs arrive.
Tuesday: Deadline.
Monday 6:30 AM reminder? Bold of you to assume I wasn't already panicking.

I couldn't be luckier with these two icons as my PhD supervisors👇

The end of the PhD is near! 🎉 My latest paper on surprise, plausibility, and memory is online! We remember highly surprising and unsurprising info better than moderately surprising info. But only if the info is judged as plausible.
Read the full paper here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...