
Dr Craig Thorley
Senior Lecturer
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
I am a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. I was born and educated in the UK. I relocated to Australia in 2017.
I primarily conduct research on human memory accuracy. For example, I have led projects examining how accurately groups of people recall shared experiences together, how accurately eyewitnesses recall crimes, and how accurately jurors recall trial evidence. Importantly, I am also interested in knowing how human memory accuracy can be improved.
I specialise in teaching people about human memory, memory and law, research methods, and statistics. I have lectured to a range of different audiences including undergraduates, fellow academics, medical professionals, and senior police officers.
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Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2004 - 2007 Lancaster University United Kingdom PhD 2001 - 2002 Lancaster University United Kingdom MSc Psychological Research Methods 1998 - 2001 Lancaster University United Kingdom BA (Hons) Psychology
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Journals
Year Citation 2022 Thorley, C., Acton, B., Armstrong, J., Ford, S., & Gundry, M. (2022). Are estimates of faces' ages less accurate when they wear sunglasses or face masks and do these disguises make it harder to later recognise the faces when undisguised?. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7(1), 17-1-7-12.
2021 O’Brien, F., & Thorley, C. (2021). Memory of people from missing person posters: the number of posters seen, the number of times they are seen, and the passage of time matter. Psychology, Crime & Law, 27(8), 779-795.
2021 Childs, M. J., Jones, A., Thwaites, P., Zdravković, S., Thorley, C., Suzuki, A., . . . Tree, J. J. (2021). Do individual differences in face recognition ability moderate the other ethnicity effect?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(7), 893-907.
Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC12020 Thorley, C. (2020). How old was he? Disguises, age, and race impact upon age estimation accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(2), 460-472.
Scopus2 WoS22020 Thorley, C. (2020). The Effects of Acute Moderate and High Intensity Exercise on Memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1-11.
Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC32020 Thorley, C. (2020). Misinformation encountered during a simulated jury deliberation can distort jurors’ memory of a trial and bias their verdicts. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25(2), 150-164.
2019 Romero-Rivas, C., Thorley, C., Skelton, K., & Costa, A. (2019). Foreign accents reduce false recognition rates in the DRM paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 31(5-6), 507-521.
Scopus3 WoS22019 Lorek, J., Centifanti, L. C. M., Lyons, M., & Thorley, C. (2019). The impact of individual differences on jurors’ note taking during trials and recall of trial evidence, and the association between the type of evidence recalled and verdicts. PLoS ONE, 14(2), 25 pages.
Scopus2 WoS22019 Thorley, C. (2019). The impact of prior trial experience on mock jurors’ note taking during trials and recall of trial evidence. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(JAN), 10 pages.
2018 Thorley, C., Almond, L., Gregory, A., McAlonan, V., & McLoughlin, A. (2018). An archival analysis of sexual assault victims’ age estimation accuracy when describing stranger offenders. Psychology, Crime & Law, 24(10), 1030-1049.
Scopus3 WoS42018 Thorley, C. (2018). Enhancing individual and collaborative eyewitness memory with category clustering recall. Memory, 26(8), 1128-1139.
Scopus6 WoS7 Europe PMC12017 Thorley, C., & Christiansen, P. (2017). The impact of own and others’ alcohol consumption on social contagion following a collaborative memory task. Memory, 26(6), 1-14.
Scopus6 WoS4 Europe PMC22017 Thorley, C., & Kumar, D. (2017). Eyewitness susceptibility to co-witness misinformation is influenced by co-witness confidence and own self-confidence. Psychology, Crime and Law, 23(4), 342-360.
Scopus13 WoS132016 Marion, S. B., & Thorley, C. (2016). A Meta-Analytic Review of Collaborative Inhibition and Postcollaborative Memory: Testing the Predictions of the Retrieval Strategy Disruption Hypothesis. Psychological Bulletin, 142(11), 1141-1164.
Scopus42 WoS41 Europe PMC222016 Thorley, C., Dewhurst, S. A., Abel, J. W., & Knott, L. M. (2016). Eyewitness memory: The impact of a negative mood during encoding and/or retrieval upon recall of a non-emotive event. Memory, 24(6), 838-852.
Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC22016 Thorley, C. (2016). Note Taking and Note Reviewing Enhance Jurors’ Recall of Trial Information. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30(5), 655-663.
Scopus6 WoS52016 Thorley, C., Baxter, R. E., & Lorek, J. (2016). The impact of note taking style and note availability at retrieval on mock jurors? recall and recognition of trial information. Memory, 24(4), 560-574.
Scopus13 WoS10 Europe PMC22015 Thorley, C. (2015). Blame conformity: Innocent bystanders can be blamed for a crime as a result of misinformation from a young, but not elderly, adult co-witness. PLoS ONE, 10(7), 15 pages.
Scopus15 WoS14 Europe PMC52014 Schnitzspahn, K. M., Thorley, C., Phillips, L., Voigt, B., Threadgold, E., Hammond, E. R., . . . Kliegel, M. (2014). Mood impairs time-based prospective memory in young but not older adults: The mediating role of attentional control. Psychology and Aging, 29(2), 264-270.
Scopus13 WoS12 Europe PMC52014 Knott, L. M., & Thorley, C. (2014). Mood-congruent false memories persist over time. Cognition and Emotion, 28(5), 903-912.
Scopus22 WoS19 Europe PMC122013 Thorley, C., & Rushton-Woods, J. (2013). Blame conformity: Leading eyewitness statements can influence attributions of blame for an accident. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27(3), 291-296.
Scopus8 WoS82013 Thorley, C. (2013). Memory conformity and suggestibility. Psychology, Crime and Law, 19(7), 565-575.
Scopus12 WoS112013 Thorley, C. (2013). The effects of recent sleep duration, sleep quality, and current sleepiness on eyewitness memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27(5), 690-695.
Scopus4 WoS32011 Dewhurst, S. A., Thorley, C., Hammond, E. R., & Ormerod, T. C. (2011). Convergent, but not divergent, thinking predicts susceptibility to associative memory illusions. Personality and Individual Differences, 51(1), 73-76.
Scopus37 WoS372009 Thorley, C., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2009). False and veridical collaborative recognition. Memory, 17(1), 17-25.
Scopus29 WoS24 Europe PMC92009 Dewhurst, S. A., Bould, E., Knott, L. M., & Thorley, C. (2009). The roles of encoding and retrieval processes in associative and categorical memory illusions. Journal of Memory and Language, 60(1), 154-164.
Scopus39 WoS362007 Thorley, C., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2007). Collaborative false recall in the DRM procedure: Effects of group size and group pressure. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19(6), 867-881.
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