Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Academy Fellows

Year elected: 2007
Panel: D
Discipline: Psychology

Professor Neil Brewer

Professor of Psychology
School of Psychology
Flinders University

Brewer, Neil. BA (hons), PhD (Adelaide)

Professor Neil Brewer is Professor of Psychology at Flinders University. His research interests include eyewitness memory, eyewitness identification and face recognition, and juror processing.

Key publications

  • Brewer, N., and Wells, G.L. (2006) The confidence-accuracy relationship in eyewitness identification: Effects of lineup instructions, foil similarity and target-absent base rates, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 12:11-30.
  • Brewer, N., and Williams, K.D. (Eds.) (2005) Psychology and law: An empirical perspective. New York: Guilford.
  • Semmler, C., Brewer, N., and Wells, G.L. (2004) Effects of postidentification feedback on eyewitness identification and nonidentification confidence, Journal of Applied Psychology 89: 334-346.
  • Brewer, N., and Burke, A. (2002) Effects of testimonial inconsistencies and eyewitness confidence on mock-juror judgments, Law and Human Behavior 26: 353-364.
  • Brewer, N., Keast, A., and Rishworth, A. (2002) The confidence-accuracy relationship in eyewitness identification: The effects of reflection and disconfirmation on correlation and calibration, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 8: 46-58.


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