Faculty Profile for Dr. Laure Brimbal

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Dr. Laure Brimbal
Assistant Professor — School of Criminal Justice & Criminology
HINE 108
phone: (512) 245-2174
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Laure Brimbal, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Iowa State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Psychology and Law from the Graduate Center, CUNY in 2016.

Dr. Brimbal's research interests lie at the intersection of psychology and the criminal justice system, specifically policing. Her focus is on interviewing and issues such as how to build rapport to overcome resistance and how to use evidence in an interview to improve lie-detection accuracy. She has also examined broader issues of decision-making in investigations, evaluating the effectiveness of training approaches, and integrating research and practice.


Areas of Specialization:
Policing, interviewing, investigations, law enforcement communication and decision-making. Experimental and quasi-experimental methods, complex experimental designs, survey methodology.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Brimbal, L. K. M., Roche, S. P., & Martaindale, M. H. (2024). Interviewing and Interrogation Practices and Beliefs, 20 Years Later: A National Self-Report Survey of American Police. Law and Human Behavior, 48(4), 247–261. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000570
  • Brimbal, L. K. M., & Crossman, A. (2022). Inconvenient Truth-Tellers: Perceptions of Children’s Blunt Honesty. Journal of Moral Education.
  • Brimbal, L., Meissner, C. A., Kleinman, S. M., Phillips, E. L., Atkinson, D., Dianiska, R. E., … Jones, M. S. (2021). Evaluating the benefits of a rapport-based approach to investigative interviews: A training study with law enforcement investigators. Law and Human Behavior.
  • Brimbal, L., & Luke, T. J. (2021). Deconstructing the evidence: The effects of reliability and proximity of evidence on suspect responses and counter-interrogation tactics. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
  • Brimbal, L., Bradford, B., Jackson, J., Hartwig, M., & Joseph, E. (2020). On the importance of a procedurally fair organizational climate for openness to change in law enforcement. Law and Human Behavior, 44(5), 394–411.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: APA Editor's choice article, American Psychological Association. October 2024 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: APA Spotlight article, American Psychological Association. October 2024 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Achievement award for excellence in scholarly and creative activities, Texas State University College of Applied Arts. 2022

Selected Service Activities

Participant
Ph.D. Orientation
August 2024-Present
Alternate member
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
August 2024-Present
Member
Ph.D. steering committee
August 2024-Present
Speaker/Organizer
Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office
August 2023-August 2023
Speaker/Organizer
Dallas Police Department
July 2023-August 2023