Curriculum Vitae
Chad S. Dodson
Address
Department of Psychology
Gilmer Hall
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400400
Charlottesville, VA 22904 – 4400
Phone: (434) 924 – 4237
Email: cdodson@virginia.edu
Education
1994 Princeton University, Ph.D.
1990 Reed College, A.B.
Professional Experience
2020 – present Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia
2008 – 2020 Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia
2011 – 2014 Director of Cognitive Science at the University of Virginia
2008 – 2009 Visiting Associate Professor at Princeton University
2001 – 2008 Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia
1998 – 2001 Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University
1994 – 1998 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley
Grants/Awards/Honors
2023 – 2026 National Science Foundation Grant #SES- 2241989 ($367,029), Using AI to improve our understanding of verbal confidence and to aid decision-making: Eyewitness lineup identification as a model case
2017 – 2021 Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Co-PI (Dodson TDC: $434,397; Total Award: $1,369,931), Understanding and Improving the Effectiveness of Eyewitness Identification Procedures
2016 – 2019 National Science Foundation Grant #BCS 1632174 ($240,759), Understanding Confidence: Eyewitness Testimony as a Model Case
2009 – 2013 National Science Foundation Grant #SES-0925145 ($323,598), High Confidence Eyewitness Memory Errors in Older Adults
2005 Fellow, LIFE Academy at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, Germany
2004 – 2005 University of Virginia Institute on Aging
1996 – 1998 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellowship
1991 – 1994 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Peer-Reviewed Articles (h-index = 32)
- Dodson, C. S. & Johnson, M. K. (1993). The rate of false source attributions depends on how questions are asked. American Journal of Psychology, 106, 541-557.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1422968?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- Dodson, C. S. & Johnson, M. K. (1996). Some problems with the process dissociation approach to memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 181-194.
- Dodson, C. S., Johnson, M. K. & Schooler, J. (1997). The Verbal Overshadowing Effect: Why descriptions impair face recognition. Memory & Cognition, 25, 129-139.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3c3c/9010e093e3cd7c92611bb1ed9065aa2089fc.pdf
- Dodson, C. S., Holland, P. W. & Shimamura, A. P. (1998). On the recollection of specific and partial source information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 1121-1136.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f515/2e10988ac38fdf93a2052332733537b24fd1.pdf
- Dodson, C. S., Prinzmetal, W. & Shimamura, A. P. (1998). Using Excel to estimate parameters from observed data: An example from source memory data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 30, 517-526.
- Dodson, C. S., & Shimamura, A. P. (2000). Differential effects of cue dependency for item and source memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 1023-1044.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1205/f762caea5b0e2a057f0b73c31c54173c3f8a.pdf
- Dodson, C. S., Koutstaal, W., & Schacter, D. L. (2000). Escape from Illusion: Reducing False Memories. Trends in Cognitive Science, 4, 391-397.
- Slotnick, S. D., Klein, S. A., Dodson, C. S., & Shimamura, A. P. (2000). An analysis of signal detection and threshold models of source memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 26, 1499-1517.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d762/25635e357029dc8478e02c4d9336ed79cb98.pdf
- Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2001a). “If I’d said it I would’ve remembered it:” Reducing false memories with a distinctiveness heuristic. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 155-161.
- Schacter, D. L. & Dodson, C. S. (2001). Misattribution, false recognition and the sins of memory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 356, 1385-1393.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1088522/pdf/TB011385.pdf
- Schacter, D. L., Cendan, D. L., Dodson, C. S., & Clifford, E. (2001). Retrieval conditions and false recognition: Testing the distinctiveness heuristic. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 827-833.
- Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2002a). When false recognition meets metacognition: The distinctiveness heuristic. Journal of Memory and Language, 46, 782-803.
http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/DSS/2003-2004/Schacter/DodsonSchacter2002.pdf
- Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2002b). Aging and strategic retrieval processes: Reducing false memories with a distinctiveness heuristic. Psychology and Aging, 17, 405-415.
- Weiss, A. P., Dodson, C. S., Goff, D., Schacter, D. L., & Heckers, S. (2002). Intact suppression of false recognition in schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 1506-1513.
http://ils.unc.edu/bmh/neoref/nrschizophrenia/jsp/review/tmp/834.pdf
- Hege, A. C. G., & Dodson, C. S. (2004). Why distinctive information reduces false memories: Evidence for both impoverished relational encoding and distinctiveness heuristic accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30, 787-795.
http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1181&context=facsch_papers
- Simons, J. S., Dodson, C. S., Bell, D., & Schacter, D. L. (2004). Specific and partial source memory in aging: Links to executive function. Psychology and Aging, 19, 689-694.
- Budson, A. E., Dodson, C. S., Daffner, K. R., & Schacter, D. L. (2005). Metacognition and false recognition in Alzheimer’s disease: Further exploration of the distinctiveness heuristic. Neuropsychology, 19, 253-258.
- Budson, A. E., Dodson, C. S., Vatner, J. M., Black, P. M., & Schacter, D. L., (2005). Metacognition and false recognition in patients with frontal lobe lesions: The distinctiveness heuristic. Neuropsychologia, 43, 860-871.
- Slotnick, S. D. & Dodson, C. S. (2005). Support for a continuous (single-process) model of recognition memory and source memory. Memory and Cognition, 33, 151-170.
- Mitchell, J. P., Dodson, C. S., & Schacter, D. L. (2005). FMRI evidence for the role of recollection in suppressing misattribution errors: The illusory truth effect. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 800-817.
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3627267/Mitchell_fMRIEvidence.pdf?sequence=2
- Dodson, C. S. & Hege, A. C. G. (2005). Speeded retrieval abolishes the false memory suppression effect: Evidence for the distinctiveness heuristic. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 726-731.
http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1180&context=facsch_papers
- Budson, A. E., Droller, D. B. J., Dodson, C. S., Rugg, M. D., Holcomb, P. J., Schacter, D. L., & Daffner, K. (2005). Electrophysiological dissociation of picture versus word encoding: the distinctiveness heuristic as a retrieval orientation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1181-1193.
- Dodson, C. S., & Krueger, L. E. (2006). I misremember it well: Why older adults are unreliable eyewitnesses. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 770-775.
- Dodson, C. S., Bawa, S, & Slotnick, S. D. (2007). Aging, Source Memory, and Misrecollections. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 33, 169-181.
https://www2.bc.edu/sd-slotnick/articles/dodson07_jeplmc.pdf
- Dodson, C. S., Bawa, S., & Krueger, L. E. (2007). Aging, Metamemory and High Confidence Errors: A Misrecollection Account. Psychology and Aging, 22, 122-133.
- Lima, O.K.A., Jaswal, V.K., & Dodson, C. S. (2007). When Two Heads Are Not Better Than One: Partner Neglect in Paired Memory Tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 88-94.
http://faculty.virginia.edu/childlearninglab/documents/Lima-et-al-2007.pdf
- Dodson, C. S. (2007). Retrieval-Based Illusory Recollections: Why study-test contextual changes impair source memory. Memory and Cognition, 35, 1211-1221.
- Dodson, C.S., Darragh, J, & Williams, A. (2008). Stereotypes and Retrieval-Provoked Illusory Source Recollections. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 34, 460-477.
- Palmer, J. E. & Dodson, C.S. (2009). Investigating the Mechanisms Fueling Reduced False Recall of Emotional Material. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 238-259.
- Jaswal, V.K. & Dodson, C.S. (2009). Metamemory Development: Understanding the Role of Similarity in False Memories. Cognitive Development, 80, 629-635
- Dodson, C. S., Spaniol, M., O’Connor, M. K., Deason, R. G., Ally, G. A., & Budson, A. E. (2011). Alzheimer’s disease and memory-monitoring impairment: Alzheimer’s patients show a monitoring deficit that is greater than their accuracy deficit. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2609-2618.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3137719/
- Bryce, M. S. & Dodson, C. S. (2013). The Cross-Age Effect in Recognition Performance and Memory Monitoring for Faces. Psychology and Aging, 28, 87-98.
- Gingerich, A. C. & Dodson, C. S. (2013). Sad mood reduces inadvertent plagiarism: Effects of affective state on source monitoring in cryptomnesia. Motivation and Emotion, 37, 355-371.
http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1479&context=facsch_papers
- Pink, J.E.P. & Dodson, C. S. (2013). Negative prospective memory: Remembering NOT to perform an action. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20, 184-190.
- Dobolyi, D. G. & Dodson, C. S. (2013). Eyewitness Confidence in Simultaneous and Sequential Lineups: A Criterion Shift Account for Sequential Mistaken Identification Overconfidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 19, 345-357.
- Slotnick, S.D., Jeye, B.M. & Dodson, C.S. (2014). Recollection is a continuous process: Evidence from plurality memory receiver operating characteristics. Memory.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9ddf/1d5831d0647883e49094ae56f3a1e7fd220b.pdf
- Dodson, C.S., Powers, E. & Lytell, M. (2015). Aging, confidence, and misinformation: Recalling information with the Cognitive Interview. Psychology and Aging, 30, 46-61.
- Dodson, C.S. & Dobolyi, D.G. (2015). Misinterpreting eyewitness expressions of confidence: The featural justification effect. Law and Human Behavior, 39, 266-280.
- Werntz, A.J., Dodson, C.S., Schiller, A.J., Middlebrooks, C.D., & Phipps, E. (2015). Mental health in rural caregivers with dementia. SAGE Open, 5(4). doi:10.1177/2158244015621776 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244015621776
40. Dodson, C.S. & Dobolyi, D.G. (2016). Confidence and Eyewitness Identifications: The cross-race effect, decision time and accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 113-125.
- Dodson, C.S. & Dobolyi, D.G. (2017). Judging guilt and accuracy: Highly confident eyewitnesses are discounted when they provide featural justifications. Psychology, Crime & Law, 23, 487-508.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1068316X.2017.1284220
42. La Fleur, C., Meyer, J.M., & Dodson, C.S. (2018). Exploring dedifferentiation across the adult lifespan. Psychology and Aging, 33, 855-870.
43. Dobolyi, D. G. & Dodson, C. S. (2018). Actual vs. perceived eyewitness accuracy and confidence and the featural justification effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 24, 543-563.
44. Grabman, J.H. & Dodson, C.S. (2019). Prior knowledge influences interpretations of eyewitness confidence statements: “The witness picked the suspect, they must be 100% sure.” Psychology, Crime & Law, 25, 50-68.
45. Slane, C.R. & Dodson, C.S. (2019). Two eyewitnesses are more persuasive than one except when they remember a suspect’s feature. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 60-67.
46. Grabman, J.H., Dobolyi, D. G., Berelovich, N.L & Dodson, C.S. (2019). Predicting High Confidence Errors in Eyewitness Memory: The Role of Face Recognition Ability, Decision-time, and Justifications. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, 233-243.
47. Grabman, J.H. & Dodson, C.S. (2020). Stark Individual Differences: Face Recognition Ability Influences the Relationship Between Confidence and Accuracy in a Recognition Test of Game of Thrones Actors. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9, 254-269.
48. Garrett, B., Liu, A., Kafadar, K., Yaffe, J. & Dodson, C.S. (2020). Factoring the role of eyewitness evidence in the courtroom. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 17, 556-579
49. Gettleman, J.N., Grabman, J.H., Dobolyi, D.G. & Dodson, C.S. (2021). Why eyewitness confidence is predictive of accuracy for good (but not poor) face recognizers under suboptimal exposure and delay conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 47, 402-421.
50. Dodson, C.S., Garrett, B., Kafadar, K., & Yaffe, J. (2021). Eyewitness Identification Speed: Slow identifications from highly confident eyewitnesses hurt perceptions of their testimony. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10, 259-267.
51. Dodson, C.S. & Garrett, B. (2021). Can we get over IDs? Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10, 212-214.
52. Kenchel, J.M., Greenspan, R.L., Reisberg, D. & Dodson, C.S. (2021). “In your own words, how certain are you?”: Post-identification feedback distorts verbal and numeric experessions of eyewitness confidence. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35, 1405-1417.
53. Slane, C.R. & Dodson, C.S. (2022). Eyewitness Confidence and Juror Decisions of Guilt: A Meta-Analytic Review. Law and Human Behavior, 46, 45-66.
54. Grabman, J.H., Cash, D.K., Slane, C.R. & Dodson, C.S. (2022). Improving the interpretation of verbal eyewitness confidence statements by distinguishing perceptions of certainty from those of accuracy. Journal of Experimental Psychology:Applied
55. Seale-Carlisle, T.M., Grabman, J.H. & Dodson, C.S. (2022). The language of accurate and inaccurate eyewitnesses. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151, 1283-1305.
56. Garrett, B., Crozier, W., Modjadidi, K., Liu, A., Kafadar, K., Yaffe, J. & Dodson, C.S. (2023). Sensitizing jurors to eyewitness confidence using judicial instructions. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12, 141-157.
57. Quigley-McBride, A., Crozier, W., Dodson, C.S., Teitcher, J., & Garrett, B. (in press). Face Value? How Jurors Evaluate Eyewitness Face Recognition Ability. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
Chapters & Non-Refereed Articles
58. Dodson, C. S. & Reisberg, D. (1991). Indirect testing of eyewitness memory: The (non) effect of misinformation. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 29, 333-336.
59. Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2001b). Memory Distortion. In B. Rapp (Ed.), What Deficits Reveal about the Human Mind/Brain: The Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology (pp. 445-463).
60. Dodson, C. S. & Schacter, D. L. (2002c). Cognitive Neuropsychology of False Memory: Theory and Data. In A. D. Baddeley, M. D. Kopelman, and B. A. Wilson, (Eds.) Handbook of Memory Disorders (pp. 343-362).
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/faf9/a11414aae9d3dcfb08a4800dce9d0b9b84ad.pdf#page=361
61. Dodson, C. S. (2010). Book Review: Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, Volume 2: Cognitive Psychology of Memory. Memory Studies.
62. Dodson, C.S. & Jaswal, V.K. (2010). Remembering the times of our lives: Memory in infancy and beyond. Journal of Cognition and Development.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15248372.2010.491522
63. Dodson, C.S. (2017) Aging and Memory. In: Wixted, J.T. (ed.), Cognitive Psychology of Memory, Vol. 2 of Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 2nd edition, Byrne, J.H. (ed.). pp. 403-421. Oxford: Academic Press.
https://www.elsevier.com/books/learning-and-memory-a-comprehensive-reference/byrne/978-0-12-805159-7
64. Dodson, C.S. (2020). “I’m Bad with Faces”: Distinguishing between reliable and unreliable eyewitnesses. Judicature.