By Professor Richard Ian Kemp

Journal articles

Towler A; Dunn JD; Castro Martínez S; Moreton R; Eklöf F; Ruifrok A; Kemp RI; White D, 2023, 'Diverse types of expertise in facial recognition', Scientific Reports, 13, pp. 11396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28632-x

Varela VPL; Towler A; Kemp RI; White D, 2023, 'Looking at faces in the wild', Scientific Reports, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25268-1

Dunn JD; Towler A; Kemp RI; White D, 2023, 'Selecting police super-recognisers', PLoS ONE, 18, pp. e0283682, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283682

Tyler R; Towler A; Kemp RI; White D, 2023, 'Let's talk about faces: Identifying faces from verbal descriptions', British Journal of Psychology, 114, pp. 262 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12610

O Ballard JW; Gardner C; Ellem L; Yadav S; Kemp RI, 2022, 'Eye contact and sociability data suggests that Australian dingoes were never domesticated', Current Zoology, 68, pp. 423 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoab024

O’Sullivan K; Hunter J; Kemp RI; Vines P; O'Sullivan K, 2022, 'Judicial Work and Traumatic Stress: Vilification, Threats, and Secondary Trauma on the Bench', Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 28, pp. 532 - 545, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000363

Chevroulet C; Paterson HM; Kemp RI; van Golde C, 2022, 'Technology and eyewitness memory: evaluating the efficacy of a novel digital cued recall tool', Psychology, Crime and Law, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2100372

Chevroulet C; Paterson HM; Yu A; Chew E; Kemp RI, 2022, 'The impact of recall timing on the preservation of eyewitness memory', Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 29, pp. 471 - 486, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2021.1926366

Dunn JD; Kemp RI; White D, 2021, 'Top-down influences on working memory representations of faces: Evidence from dual-target visual search', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, pp. 1368 - 1377, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17470218211014357

Bali AS; Edmond G; Ballantyne KN; Kemp RI; Martire KA, 2021, 'Corrigendum to “Communicating forensic science opinion: An examination of expert reporting practices” [Sci. Justice 60 (3) (2020) 216–224] (Science & Justice (2020) 60(3) (216–224), (S1355030619302102), (10.1016/j.scijus.2019.12.005))', Science and Justice, 61, pp. 449 - 450, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2021.04.001

Hunter J; Kemp R; O'Sullivan K; Vines P, 2021, 'A Fragile Bastion: UNSW Judicial Stress Trauma Study', Judicial Officers' Bulletin, 33, pp. 1 - 7

Wu T; Singh S; Lyons G; Nielssen O; Kemp R; Johnson A; Dean K, 2021, 'Characteristics and re-offending outcomes of ‘limiting-term’ forensic patients found unfit to stand trial in New South Wales, Australia', Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 28, pp. 733 - 747, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2020.1837032

Towler A; Keshwa M; Ton B; Kemp RI; White D, 2021, 'Diagnostic Feature Training Improves Face Matching Accuracy', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 47, pp. 1288 - 1298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000972

Edmond G; White D; Towler A; San Roque M; Kemp R, 2021, 'FACIAL RECOGNITION AND IMAGE COMPARISON EVIDENCE: IDENTIFICATION BY INVESTIGATORS, FAMILIARS, EXPERTS, SUPER RECOGNISERS AND ALGORITHMS', Melbourne University Law Review, 45, pp. 99 - 160, https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/4074254/03-Edmond-et-al-99.pdf

Bali AS; Edmond G; Ballantyne KN; Kemp RI; Martire KA, 2020, 'Communicating forensic science opinion: An examination of expert reporting practices', Science and Justice, 60, pp. 216 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2019.12.005

Dean K; Singh S; Kemp R; Johnson A; Nielssen O, 2020, 'Characteristics and Re-Offending Rates Amongst Individuals Found Not Guilty by Reason of Mental Illness (NGMI): A Comparison of Men and Women in a 25-Year Australian Cohort', International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14999013.2020.1795011

Christodoulou C; Paterson H; Kemp R, 2019, 'Body-worn cameras: evidence-base and implications', Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 31, pp. 513 - 524, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2019.1639590

Martire KA; Ballantyne KN; Bali A; Edmond G; Kemp RI; Found B, 2019, 'Forensic science evidence: Naive estimates of false positive error rates and reliability', Forensic Science International, 302, pp. 109877, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.109877

Dunn JD; Ritchie KL; Kemp RI; White D, 2019, 'Familiarity does not inhibit image-specific encoding of faces', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45, pp. 841 - 854, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000625

Towler A; Kemp RI; Mike Burton A; Dunn JD; Wayne T; Moreton R; White D, 2019, 'Do professional facial image comparison training courses work?', PLoS ONE, 14, pp. e0211037, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211037

Towler A; Kemp RI; Bruce V; Burton AM; Dunn JD; White D, 2019, 'Are face recognition abilities in humans and sheep really 'comparable'?', Royal Society Open Science, 6, pp. 180772, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180772

Monds LA; Howard M; Paterson HM; Kemp RI, 2019, 'The effects of perceived memory ability on memory conformity for an event', Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 26, pp. 580 - 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2018.1556130

Balsdon T; Summersby S; Kemp RI; White D, 2018, 'Improving face identification with specialist teams', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0114-7

Dunn J; Kemp R; White D, 2018, 'Search templates that incorporate within-face variation improve visual search for faces', Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-018-0128-1

Towler A; White D; Ballantyne K; Searston RA; Martire KA; Kemp RI, 2018, 'Are Forensic Scientists Experts?', Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7, pp. 199 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.03.010

Menon N; Kemp RI; White D, 2018, 'More than a sum of parts: Robust face recognition by integrating variation', Royal Society Open Science, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172381

Page M; Lain R; Kemp R; Taylor J, 2018, 'Validation studies in forensic odontology – Part 1: Accuracy of radiographic matching', Science and Justice, 58, pp. 185 - 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2017.11.001

O’sullivan K; Williams R; Hong XY; Bright D; Kemp R, 2018, 'Measuring offenders’ belief in the possibility of desistance', International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62, pp. 1317 - 1330, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X16678940

Martire KA; Kemp RI, 2018, 'Considerations when designing human performance tests in the forensic sciences', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 50, pp. 166 - 182, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2016.1229815

Paterson HM; van Golde C; Devery C; Cowdery N; Kemp R, 2018, 'iWitnessed: Capturing Contemporaneous Accounts to Enhance Witness Evidence', CURRENT ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, 29, pp. 273 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2018.12036102

Hunter J; Kemp RI, 2017, 'Proposed Changes to the Tendency Rule: A Note of Caution', CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, 41, pp. 253 - 260, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000419384800002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Paterson HM; Luppino D; Calderwood C; MacDougall HG; Taubert J; Kemp RI, 2017, 'Can training improve eyewitness identification? The effect of internal feature focus on memory for faces', Psychology, Crime and Law, 23, pp. 927 - 945, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2017.1346099

Monds LA; Paterson HM; Kemp RI, 2017, 'Do emotional stimuli enhance or impede recall relative to neutral stimuli? An investigation of two “false memory” tasks', Memory, 25, pp. 945 - 952, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2016.1237653

O’Sullivan K; Holderness D; Hong XY; Bright D; Kemp R, 2017, 'Public Attitudes in Australia to the Reintegration of ex-Offenders: Testing a Belief in Redeemability (BiR) scale', European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 23, pp. 409 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10610-016-9328-8

Milligan-Saville JS; Paterson HM; Harkness EL; Marsh AM; Dobson M; Kemp RI; Bryant RA; Harvey SB, 2017, 'The Amplification of Common Somatic Symptoms by Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Firefighters', Journal of Traumatic Stress, 30, pp. 142 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.22166

Towler A; White D; Kemp RI, 2017, 'Evaluating the feature comparison strategy for forensic face identification', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 23, pp. 47 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xap0000108

O’Sullivan K; Levin C; Bright D; Kemp R, 2017, 'The belief in redeemability – version 2 (BiR-2) scale and its relation to desistance', Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 3, pp. 300 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCRPP-06-2017-0018

Edmond G; Towler A; Growns B; Ribeiro G; Found B; White D; Ballantyne K; Searston RA; Thompson MB; Tangen JM; Kemp RI; Martire K, 2017, 'Thinking forensics: Cognitive science for forensic practitioners', Science and Justice, 57, pp. 144 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2016.11.005

Towler A; Kemp RI; White D, 2017, 'Unfamiliar face matching systems in applied settings', Face processing: systems, disorders and cultural differences

Monds LA; Paterson HM; Ali S; Kemp RI; Bryant RA; McGregor IS, 2016, 'Cortisol response and psychological distress predict susceptibility to false memories for a trauma film', Memory, 24, pp. 1278 - 1286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2015.1102287

Edmond G; Found B; Martire K; Ballantyne K; Hamer D; Searston R; Thompson M; Cunliffe E; Kemp R; San Roque M; Tangen J; Dioso-Villa R; Ligertwood A; Hibbert D; White D; Ribeiro G; Porter G; Towler A; Roberts A, 2016, 'Model forensic science', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 48, pp. 496 - 537, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2015.1128969

Kemp RI; Caon A; Howard M; Brooks KR, 2016, 'Improving Unfamiliar Face Matching by Masking the External Facial Features', Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, pp. 622 - 627, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/acp.3239

Harvey SB; Milligan-Saville JS; Paterson HM; Harkness EL; Marsh AM; Dobson M; Kemp R; Bryant RA, 2016, 'The mental health of fire-fighters: An examination of the impact of repeated trauma exposure', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 50, pp. 649 - 658, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0004867415615217

White D; Burton AL; Kemp RI, 2016, 'Not looking yourself: The cost of self-selecting photographs for identity verification', British Journal of Psychology, 107, pp. 359 - 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12141

O'Sullivan KR; Williams R; Hong XY; Bright D; Kemp R, 2016, 'Measuring offenders’ belief in the possibility of desistance.', International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Spiteri VR; Porter G; Kemp R, 2015, 'Variation of craniofacial representation in passport photographs', Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 1, pp. 239 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JCRPP-08-2015-0039

Menon N; White D; Kemp RI, 2015, 'Variation in Photos of the Same Face Drives Improvements in Identity Verification', Perception, 44, pp. 1332 - 1341, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0301006615599902

White D; Dunn JD; Schmid AC; Kemp RI, 2015, 'Error rates in users of automatic face recognition software', PLoS ONE, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139827

Menon N; White D; Kemp RI, 2015, 'Identity-level representations affect unfamiliar face matching performance in sequential but not simultaneous tasks', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68, pp. 1777 - 1793, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.990468

Jones CGA; Fearnley H; Panagiotopoulos B; Kemp RI, 2015, 'Delay discounting, self-control, and substance use among adult drug court participants', Behavioural Pharmacology, 26, pp. 447 - 459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/FBP.0000000000000149

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