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Christine  Ruva

Christine Ruva

Christine Ruva
Assistant Professor Sarasota

Contact

Office: SMC C263
Phone: 941/359-4629
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Teaching

Psychology of Language, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Perception.

Ph.D. Area: Cognitive and Neural Sciences

Research

Juror/jury decision making, juror memory (collaborative memory), juror perceptions of witness credibility, eyewitness memory and credibility, children as eyewitnesses, and the social use of memory.

Current Courses

RefCourseSecCourse TitleCRDayTimeLocation
84821EXP 4680C521Cognitive Psychology
3M3:00pm-5:50pmSMC B336
89431PSY 4913522Directed Study
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Recent Publications

Ruva, C. L. & McEvoy, C. (2007). Negative and positive pretrial publicity and delay affect juror memory and decision making, Under review for JEP: Applied.

Ruva, C. L., McEvoy, C., & Bryant, J. B. (2007). Effects of pretrial publicity and collaboration on juror bias and source monitoring errors./ Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21,/ 45-67.

Ruva, C.L., & Bryant, J.B. (2004). The impact of age, speech style, and question form on perception of witness credibility and trial outcome. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 1919-1944.