Roy S. Malpass
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Roy S. Malpass | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Educator, Researcher, Psychologist |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.S. (1959), M.A. (1961), Ph.D. (1968) |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Social Psychologist |
| Sub-discipline | Eyewitness Identification and Facial Recognition |
| Institutions | Professor Emeritus at UTEP & SUNY Plattsburgh |
Roy S. Malpass is a social psychologist[1] known for his research in facial recognition and eyewitness identification.[2] He is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology[3] at the University of Texas at El Paso[3] and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.[1]
Education
[edit]Malpass first got his Bachelors of Science degree (1959) at Union College in Schenectady, New York.[3] He went on to get his Masters of Arts degree (1961) at The Graduate Faculty, The New School for Social Research in New York, New York.[3] Then, Malpass went on to get his Ph.D. (1968) at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.[3] Malpass completed his dissertation for Syracuse University and his topic was, Effects of Attitude on Learning and Memory: The Influence of Instruction-Induced Sets.[4]
Career
[edit]After obtaining his M.A., Malpass became a research assistant at the Research Foundation Children’s Hospital in the District of Columbia[3] until 1962. Soon after, he became a lecturer of psychology at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.[3] Throughout his teaching career, Malpass taught multiple courses. A few being: cross-cultural research methods, psychology and culture, psychology and law, and wrongful conviction.[2] In 1965, Malpass became a National Defense Education Act Title IV Fellow at Syracuse University.[3] The NDEA was passed to help gain more qualified college teachers. In turn, of teaching, they would be able to study full time in the doctoral program.[5] It is here, Syracuse, that Malpass would also obtain his Ph.D. in 1968. After that, he became an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.[3] In 1973, he continued his career as an educator and became the Associate Professor of Behavioral Science at the College of Arts & Sciences, SUNY at Plattsburgh.[3] Later on, in 1980, he would obtain the title of Professor of Behavioral Science there and would also gain the title of Professor Emeritus in 1992.[3] During those years, Malpass held the title of president at the Society for Cross-Cultural Research[1] and the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.[1] In the coming moths of 1992, Malpass continued on to become the Director of the Criminal Justice Program, at the University of Texas at El Paso.[3] Later, until 2007, Malpass would be the Head of the Ph.D. Program for the Department of Psychology.[3] Finally, in 2011, he would gain the title Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at El Paso.[3]
Awards
[edit]At the University of Illinois, Malpass received the Graduate Student Association Award in 1973.[3] He was given this award for excellence in teaching and contributing to graduate education.[3] Malpass received the Chancellor's Award in 1982, for excellent teaching.[3] In 2011, Malpass received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Research at the University of Texas at El Paso.[3]
Research
[edit]Throughout his research, Malpass highly focuses on eyewitness identification and facial recognition. Some of his most cited works are about eyewitness identification procedures.[6] Closely following are his works about facial recognition among race.[7] Malpass frequently publishes works within the topic of police lineups, where he has collaborated with Dawn Mcquiston.[8] His research has shown that not receiving a correct identification can be played off as guessing, when there is no support to show it.[9] When it comes to facial recognition works he frequently collaborates with Otto H. Maclin.[10] His research has shown that people are more able to identify others of their own race, by face, than those of another race.[11] Since starting his career, Malpass has published or helped with at least 139 journals.[12]
Books
[edit]Lonner, Walter J., Malpass, Roy S. (1993). Psychology and Culture. MA: Allyn and Bacon. 0205148999.[13]
Sporer, Siegfried L., Malpass, Roy S., Koehnken, Guenter (1996). Psychological Issues in Eyewitness Identification. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 0805811982.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Keith, Kenneth D, ed. (2013-09-24). The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology (1 ed.). Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781118339893.wbeccp342. ISBN 978-0-470-67126-9.
- ^ a b "Roy S. Malpass". malpass.socialpsychology.org. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/psychology/_files/docs/curricula-vitae/malpasscv.pdf
- ^ Malpass, Roy S. (October 1969). "Effects of Attitude on Learning and Memory: The Influence of Instruction-Induced Sets". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 5 (4): 441–453. doi:10.1016/0022-1031(69)90036-5 – via Research Gate.
- ^ Lindquist, Clarence B. (1971). NDEA Fellowships for College Teaching, 1958-1968; Title IV, National Defense Education Act of 1958 (Report).
- ^ Wells, Gary L.; Small, Mark; Penrod, Steven; Malpass, Roy S.; Fulero, Solomon M.; Brimacombe, C. A. E. (1998). "Eyewitness Identification Procedures: Recommendations for Lineups and Photospreads" (PDF). Law and Human Behavior. 22 (6): 603–647. doi:10.1023/A:1025750605807 – via psychnet.
- ^ Malpass, Roy S.; Kravitz, Jerome (1969). "Recognition for faces of own and other race". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 13 (4): 330–334. doi:10.1037/h0028434. PMID 5359231.
- ^ Malpass, Roy S.; Tredoux, Colin; Mcquiston, Dawn (February 2009). "Public policy and sequential lineups". Legal and Criminological Psychology. 14 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1348/135532508X384102 – via Research Gate.
- ^ Malpass, Roy S.; Tredoux, Colin; Mcquiston, Dawn (February 2009). "Response to Lindsay, Mansour, Beaudry, Leach and Bertrand's Sequential lineup presentation: Patterns and policy". Legal and Criminological Psychology. 14 (1): 25–30. doi:10.1348/135532508X384094 – via Research Gate.
- ^ Maclin, Otto H.; Malpass, Roy S. (March 2001). "Racial Categorization of Faces: The Ambiguous Race Face Effect". Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 7 (1): 98–118. doi:10.1037/1076-8971.7.1.98 – via Research Gate.
- ^ Brigham, John C.; Malpass, Roy S. (October 1985). "The Role of Experience and Contact in the Recognition of Faces Of Own- and Other-Race Persons". Journal of Social Issues. 41 (3): 139–155. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1985.tb01133.x. ISSN 0022-4537 – via SPSSi.
- ^ "Roy S. Malpass". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ "Psychology and culture | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ "Psychological Issues Eyewitness Identification - AbeBooks". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2024-10-20.