Neil Brewer, Ph.D.

Neil Brewer is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Flinders University, South Australia. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. His research spans the areas of eyewitness identification and recall, interviewing, juror judgments, and interactions between individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the justice system. Dr. Brewer has published widely in these research areas in major general is cognitive, social, clinical and applied psychological journals, and in the leading international psychology-law journals. Published monographs include Psychological science and the law (Guilford, 2019), Crime and autism spectrum disorder: Myths and mechanisms (Kingsley, 2015), Psychology and law (Guilford, 2005), Conflict management in police-citizen interactions (McGraw-Hill, 1998), and Psychology and policing (Erlbaum,1995). He has served on the editorial boards of the major psychology-law journals and as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Dr. Brewer has provided numerous professional development sessions on eyewitness memory and credibility for judges, attorneys and police, advised on the collection of eyewitness evidence for Australian state legislatures, and contributed to amicus briefs via the US Innocence Project.

Chapter 9 - The Assessment of Eyewitness Memory for People and Events

Carolyn Semmler, Ph.D.

Neil Brewer, Ph.D.