Faculty Profiles

Hill, S. L., Brimbal, L. K. M., Maguire, E. R., & Stephens, E. (2025). Does humanizing the police improve the effectiveness of police recruiting efforts? Criminology & Public Policy.

Brimbal, L., Meissner, C., Kleinman, S., Martinez, K., Doyle, M., Quinby, E., … Mindthoff, A. (n.d.). A Framework of Motivations that Drive Communicative Resistance and Cooperation in Interviews: Perspectives from the Field. Journal of Criminal Psychology.

Brimbal, L. K. M., Jones, A. M., & Quinby, E. A. (2025). Does Telling a Story in Reverse Elicit Cues to Deceit? A Replication and Extension of Vrij, Leal, Mann, and Fisher (2012) Registered Report Stage 2. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 30, 30–53. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12252

Hill, S., Brimbal, L., Maguire, E., & Stephens, E. (2024). Police Recruitment Through an Intergroup Communication Lens: A Randomized Experiment Using Crossed-Group Memberships. Journal of Experimental Criminology.

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. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000570

Maguire, E., Hill, S., & Brimbal, L. K. M. (2024). The Effects of Communication Accommodation on Hispanic Immigrants’ Willingness to Cooperate with U.S. Police. American Behavioral Scientist.

Brimbal, L. K. M., Severino, M., Jones, A., & Rossmo, D. K. (n.d.). Improving interviewing in patrol officers: A training study. National Institute of Justice LEADS Special Issue.

Brimbal, L. (n.d.). Recueil de la parole des suspects. In Psychologie et Crime, Volume 1 : Du passage à l’acte à l’enquête judiciaire.

Brimbal, L. K. M., Atkinson, D., & Meissner, C. (2024). The effect of confirmation bias and racial stereotypes on guilt and interrogation strategy decisions in investigation. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Brimbal, L. K. M. (2023). Adults judge children who tell blunt polite truths more negatively than they do liars. The Conversation.

Brimbal, L., & Luke, T. J. (2022). 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. K. M., & Crossman, A. (2022). Inconvenient Truth-Tellers: Perceptions of Children’s Blunt Honesty. Journal of Moral Education.

Brimbal, L. K. M., & Hill, S. (2022). Rapport Building in Interviews and Interrogations: Translating Research to Practice. Retrieved from https://www.policinginstitute.org/onpolicing/rapport-building-in-interviews-and-interrogations-translating-research-to-practice/

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. K. M., & Jones, A. M. (2021). Does telling a story in reverse elicit cues to deceit? A replication and extension of Vrij, Leal, Mann, and Fisher (2012). Stage I manuscript. Open Science Framework.

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.

Jordan, S., Brimbal, L., Wallace, D. B., Kassin, S., Hartwig, M., & Street, C. (2019). A test of the micro-expressions training tool: Does it improve lie detection? Journal Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling., 16, 222–235.

Brimbal, L., Dianiska, R., Swanner, J., & Meissner, C. (2019). Enhancing cooperation and disclosure by manipulating affiliation and developing rapport in investigative interviews. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 25, 107–115.

Brimbal, L., Kleinman, S., Oleszkiewicz, S., & Meissner, C. (2019). Developing rapport and trust in the interrogative context: An empirically-supported and ethical alternative to customary interrogation practices. In Interrogation and Torture: Integrating Efficacy with Law and Morality. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Brimbal, L., & Jones, A. (2018). Perceptions of suspect statements: A comparison of exposed lies and confessions. Psychology Crime and Law, 24, 156–176.

Luke, T., Hartwig, M., Brimbal, L., & Granhag, P. A. (2018). Building a case: The role of empirically- based interviewing techniques in case construction. In Finding the Truth in the Courtroom: Dealing with Deception Lies and Memories. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Hartwig, M., Voss, J., Brimbal, L., & Wallace, D. B. (2017). Investment professionals’ ability to detect deception: Accuracy, bias and metacognitive realism. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 18, 1–13.

Dawson, E., Hartwig, M., Brimbal, L., & Denisenkov, P. (2017). A Room with a view: Setting influences information disclosure in investigative interviews. Law and Human Behavior, 41, 333–343.

Jones, A., & Brimbal, L. (2017). Lay Perceptions of Interrogation Techniques: Identifying the Role of Belief in a Just World and Right-Wing Authoritarianism. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 14, 260–280.

Brimbal, L., Hartwig, M., & Crossman, A. (2017). The effect of questions on suspects’ perception of evidence in investigative interviews: What can we infer from the basic literature? Polygraph & Forensic Credibility Assessment: A Journal of Science and Field Practice, 47, 10–39.

Luke, T., Hartwig, M., Joseph, E., Brimbal, L., Chan, G., Dawson, E., … Granhag, P. A. (2016). Training in the Strategic Use of Evidence technique: Improving deception detection accuracy of American law enforcement officers. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 31, 270–278.

Dawson, E., Hartwig, M., & Brimbal, L. (2015). Elicitation information in intelligence interviews: The effects of priming disclosure concepts. Law and Human Behavior, 39, 443–451.

Luke, T., Hartwig, M., Brimbal, L., Chan, G., Jordan, S., Joseph, E., … Granhag, P. A. (2013). Interviewing to elicit cues to deception: Improving Strategic Use of Evidence with general-to- specific framing of evidence. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 28, 54–62.