Annelies Vredeveldt

A Happy New Year from our new and incoming Governing Board // mailchi.mp/9c301bc35283...

Come join SARMAC's Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. Applications due December 17th // mailchi.mp/36e5402c6275...

The SARMAC 2026-2029 Governing Board election has just gone live to regular members in good standing - check your inboxes! Voting ends December 15th. Reach out to the Exec Director if you have not received the link but expect to have done: www.sarmac.org/contact-2

JARMAC is seeking new editorial board members: apply now! // mailchi.mp/7ff430ed8bf1...

Don't forget: the deadline to stand for election to the SARMAC board is October 31st

Deadline for applications: 31st October 2025

Start a new international collaboration with the help of SARMAC #funding. The 2025 call for applications to the Collaborative #Grant is now open! // www.sarmac.org/collaborativ...

Come work with me! I need a part-time research assistant to help me with research articles, presentations, expert witness reports and social media. I need someone with a background in legal psychology, fluent English and Dutch and a healthy dose of enthusiasm :)

Announcing our new Student Caucus! A huge congratulations and thank-you to our outgoing caucus committee, and welcome to our new committee for 2025-27 // mailchi.mp/62a3640972e2...

Nominate yourself or someone else to join the board of our friendly little society. See the link for details on how to nominate: it's really easy! #society #election // mailchi.mp/54fc1e93db0c...

(PDF) The Digital Courtroom: Participation, Attendance, Engagement and Consumption PDF | On May 15, 2025, Lisa Flower published The Digital Courtroom: Participation, Attendance, Engagement and Consumption | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

For those of you interested in reading more on this topic, Dorris recommends Lisa Flower's book The Digital Courtroom - the PDF is freely available here: share.google/2GYna4Ny6Sra...

In her #EAPL2025 keynote, Dorris de Vocht @tilburguniversity.bsky.social shares her thoughtful reflections from a lawyer's perspective on the impact of technology in the courtroom

This was a great symposium on "Novel perspectives on interviewing and decision making in the asylum context". Thanks for organizing Jenny Skrifvars and Laura Stevens @psychaid.bsky.social!

And we're off! Starting #EAPL2025 in beautiful Vilnius with a keynote by Pekka Santtila on the use of innovative technology in investigative interviewing @eapl.bsky.social

NWO grant for research on legal psychological expert witness reports - Amsterdam Laboratory for Legal Psychology The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded one of their competitive Open Competition M grants to ALLP director Annelies Vredeveldt, for a project on legal psychological expert witnesses reports. The...

Excited to share that I've been awarded an NWO Open Competition M grant for research on expert witness reports in legal psychology, allowing the fantastic @evanrosmalen.bsky.social to start her PhD @vucriminologie.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social! allp.nl/nwo-grant-fo...

🚨 Just published! Our case study on the ICTR reveals how cultural background shapes courtroom communication. Witnesses from non-WEIRD contexts often gave indirect responses, easily misinterpreted as unclear or evasive by legal professionals @anneliesvrede.bsky.social doi.org/10.1108/JCP-...

Check out this great work by my former postdoc Laura Weiss, who analyzed 100+ real witness interviews conducted by the South African Police Services, presented last week at #SARMAC2025 @sarmac2025.bsky.social

What an amazing 4 days! Thanks so much to everyone for attending and bringing such warm and friendly energy to #sarmac2025! We can’t wait for SARMAC 2027! ❤️☘️

Oh no, #SARMAC2025 is really over now! Survived my first conference as President and had a fantastic time with old friends and new. See you at #SARMAC2027! @fionagabbert.bsky.social @lorrainehope.bsky.social @charlesbstone.bsky.social @gabidb.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social

SARMAC 2025 🇮🇪 ticked all the boxes -excellent talks, inspiring discussions, numerous student-ECR focused workshops and talent, stunning venue, fun socials & such warm hospitality, Thanks a million @gillian-murphy.bsky.social AND ‪@ciaragreene.bsky.social‬ #SARMAC2025 @officialsarmac.bsky.social

Keynote speaker Heather Flowe explains why it's important to study sexual violence using a gender lens #SARMAC2025 @sarmac2025.bsky.social

Highly recommend this experience! We tried it yesterday and it was so much fun! #sarmac2025 @sarmac2025.bsky.social

Eyewitness Lineup Identity (ELI) database Hosted on the Open Science Framework

For anyone interested in conducting lineup identification research, check out this valuable database of research materials generously shared by #SARMAC2025 presenter Ryan Fitzgerald, Stefana Juncu, @evaribbers.bsky.social and @evarubinova.bsky.social osf.io/vrj3u @sarmac2025.bsky.social

So impressed with this #SARMAC2025 symposium on confidence-accuracy in eyewitness identifications, featuring generous sharing of research materials, multilab studies with 1000s of participants and super realistic research designs @sarmac2025.bsky.social @officialsarmac.bsky.social

We are well on our way into Day 3 of #sarmac2025 - keep up the energy and warm spirit, we're really enjoying bumping into everyone! A few more quick photos that have come our way: First up, @anneliesvrede.bsky.social's inaugural opening ceremony @sarmac2025.bsky.social 🧵

Discussant Qi Wang highlights the age-old debate on how to distinguish between what people remember and what people report #sarmac2025

How can we help people in cross-cultural contexts provide more detail? @lorrainehope.bsky.social presents exciting work led by Feni Kontogianni on the use of instructive prompts @kirkluther.bsky.social #sarmac2025

Nkansah Anakwah investigated whether witness reports can be influenced by highlighting witnesses' typical cultural style of reporting #sarmac2025

Cultural differences in eyewitness testimony have significant implications for investigative interviewers @gabidb.bsky.social #SARMAC2025

About to start our #SARMAC2025 symposium on eyewitness memory in cross-cultural contexts in the Fountain Suite with @anneliesvrede.bsky.social @gabidb.bsky.social Nkansah Aankwam @lorrainehope.bsky.social and Qi Wang @officialsarmac.bsky.social @sarmac2025.bsky.social

Yessss! See you soon SARMAC friends! ❤️