Keith Wylie
Professional Profile
Dr. Keith Wylie is a legal psychologist trained in legal, cognitive, and quantitative psychology. He brings an experimental approach to questions about human memory, judgment, and behavior. His teaching emphasizes active learning, scientific reasoning, and hands-on research, and he regularly mentors students through the research process from study design to conference presentation and publication.
Teaching
Dr. Wylie teaches courses including:
- Research Methods
- Forensic Psychology
- Learning and Memory
- Psychology of Language
- Pseudoscience
Research
Eyewitness Memory & Investigative Interviewing:
How do people remember witnessed events, and what can investigators do to obtain accurate and complete accounts? This research examines eyewitness identification, suggestibility, cognitive interviewing, and the challenges of interviewing people who speak English as a second language.
Legal Decision-Making & Information Processing:
How do people evaluate evidence and make decisions in legal contexts? Current research explores juror judgments, misinformation and social influence, perceptions of defendants and victims, psychological distance in testimony, and perceptions of fairness in plea bargaining.
Selected Recent Publications
(underlined names are students at the time of research):
- Dinwiddie, K. R., & Wylie, K. (2026). What works and what doesn’t when interviewing in a second language. Applied Police Briefings, 3(2), 22–24. https://doi.org/10.22215/apb.v3i2.5888
- Ryan, C. K., Brown, S., & Wylie, K. (2025). Videos versus text spoilers and college students’ enjoyment of narratives. Journal of Psychological Inquiry, 29(2), 29–37.
- Bennett, B., Corn, C., Wolf Bordonaro, G., & Wylie, K. (2025). The effects of a single-session pictorial collage on self-reported anxiety in adults diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 92, Article 102256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2025.102256
- Wylie, K., & Evans, J. R. (2023). Investigating the utility of cognitive interview mnemonics among non-native English speakers. Psychology of Language and Communication, 27(1), 226–255. https://doi.org/10.58734/plc-2023-0012
- Wylie, K., Pena, M. M., Miller, K. B., Palmer, M. E., & Tate, E. K. (2022). Observers’ accuracy in detecting deception in non-native speakers versus native speakers: A systematic review. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 19(3), 204–220. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1595
- Molinaro, P. F., Charman, S. D., & Wylie, K. (2021). Pre-identification confidence is related to eyewitness lineup accuracy across witnesses with heterogeneous encoding conditions. Law and Human Behavior, 45(6), 524–541. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000452
Selected Recent Conference Presentations
- Dinwiddie, K. R., Wylie, K., Holloway, A., Moss, J. D., Rodriguez Carey, R., & Bell, C. (2026). Outside influence: The impact of artificial intelligence and co-witness information on eyewitness misidentification. American Psychology–Law Society Annual Conference, Reno, NV.
- Macanche, E., & Wylie, K. (2026). Examining the influence of hijabs on the bystander effect. American Psychology–Law Society Annual Conference, Reno, NV.
- Ryan, C. K., Phalen, H., & Wylie, K. (2026). The effect of gruesome evidence on juror decision-making: A memory perspective. American Psychology–Law Society Annual Conference, Reno, NV.
- Silva, D. P., & Wylie, K. (2026). A litmus test of legitimacy: Testing coercion and concealment of exculpatory evidence as predictors of fairness in plea bargaining. Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
- Brown, S. R., Wylie, K., Moss, J. D., & Hayes, K. (2025). Psychological distance in legal testimony: Does grammatical voice influence juror perceptions? American Psychology–Law Society Annual Conference, San Juan, PR.